Need a Hand?

If you or somebody you know needs a hand, please fill out an intake form and our match-making team will follow up with you to get the process started! Please keep in mind that we get a lot of emails every day with requests for help and we answer in the order we receive them.

Please make sure you:

1. Hit the SUBMIT button after filling in the form. (Your form will not go through unless this step is completed!)
2. Check to make sure that our responses from our Matcher team have not ended up in you SPAM folder.
3. Open the welcome email and fill out the information and submit the images and information needed.
4. Keep in mind that our current devices require at least 30 degrees of wrist motion or elbow motion to work. If you or your child does not have a functional wrist or elbow – current ENABLE designs will not work for you.
5. Read the safety guidelines and understand that these devices are still in the Beta testing stage, are experimental and are not recommended for children under the age of 3 due to safety and choking hazards (there are very small pieces that could come loose and pose a choking hazard to young children.)
6. Are working with your physician, pediatrician, Occupational Therapist or Prosthetist to help ensure a proper fit once the device is created.
7. Read the information packet that will be sent to you upon completing your form!

Build a Hand.

If you would like to make a hand, start with the new member form.  A member of the match-making team will contact you when they have located a nearby case that requires fabrication and will guide you through the process. Please keep in mind that we currently have more volunteers than we have recipients waiting and it may be weeks or months before you are matched with an individual. We do however ask for large numbers of hands to be printed from time to time to send to events that will help teach others how to make the hands or to locations where clinics want to fit them to their patients in a somewhat “Shoe Store” type model and will put a call out to makers for those types of events!

We recommend getting familiar with the stable designs that the community has produced by printing and assembling some test hands from the Upper Limb Prosthetics page.

Once you have filled out the intake form and familiarized yourself with the community and designs, we ask that you send in a sample hand for QC before we match you with a recipient.

If you have filled out the form and submitted all of the information needed to get started and are ready for creating your test hand – please visit our Test Hand Submission Form.

Lend a Hand.

e-NABLE is an extraordinary community of big hearted, talented, volunteers.  They work on matchmaking,  research and development, education and outreach, community support and  fundraising.

To join us, fill out our new member form,  explore our Google Plus Community, and explore our Forums.

You can also check out our Calendar of Events.  You’ll find plenty of opportunities for collaboration and service, and we’ll follow up with suggestions.

You can also support our community by donating to the Enable Community Foundation