Weighted pens

This section includes weighted pens, pens which can have weight added and pens with a magnetic connection to the writing surface. These pens may help your writing if you have hand tremors or decreased co-ordination.

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Help and advice

Some individuals find that using weighted pens or cuffs around their wrist reduces the effect of tremor on their handwriting. However, studies have shown that strategies such as...

supporting your trunk against a table
placing your elbow on a table top
wearing a wrist splint
placing your other hand over your writing hand...

... can be just as effective as weighted equipment or used in combination with the equipment¹.

Further information
For more information you may wish to contact the:

MS society, website: www.mssociety.org.uk , helpline: 0808 800 8000 They have a factsheet on tremor
Parkinsons UK, website: www.parkinsons.org.uk, helpline: 0808 800 0303

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