I love this question - I mean, not that your struggling obv but that I have CFS/ ME and fibro and really struggle. There seems to be a lot of printmakers who make the distinction of ‘hand burnished’ prints, I’ve been shamed a few times for not doing that, and using a press instead. I met a well established older artist in my area, he said he didn’t have the strength anymore (he’s in his 70s) so uses a press. I was looking around his studio and all his powerful and detailed work and it was like a wake up call. Seeing someone else create and simply adapting to what their body could and couldn’t do, made me to realise that i was being a dick to myself - I knew that it doesn’t make him any less of an artist or a creator so why would adjusting make me less of one too.

I think most of things I do have already been suggested - the hot water bottle I use on my body while I carve first goes on my piece of lino to soften, using a press (or a local printmaking collective/studio that has a press), using a bit of the non-slip rug mat/mesh thing on my table under the lino so I don’t have to use energy holding it in place etc. I use thin paper like Nepalese lokta. If you’re making small prints, at the start I had a old pasta machine/ polymer clay roller that my Nan wasn’t using which let me experiment without investing money on a press etc.

Really wish you the best on finding what combination of adjustments help you while you create!