5 Simple Exercises to Prevent Long-Term Hand Injuries

Millions of people find daily tasks difficult, if not impossible, to accomplish on a regular basis due to stiffness, swelling, pain and/or immobility in the fingers and hands. These 5 range of motion exercises in conjunction with FingerWeights will not only help you perform these daily tasks, but will also increase your overall hand health to avoid BIGGER issues down the road. 

Many occupational and physical therapists will suggest specific exercises with FingerWeights, depending on the condition of your fingers and hands. Some FingerWeights exercises work the extensor and flexor muscles in the fingers and hands, while others help increase the different joint’s range of motion and help to “lengthen” the muscles and tendons. Practicing these range of motion exercises with FingerWeights, and utilizing this tool, will be helpful for people suffering from osteoarthritis as well tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow, while helping to alleviate the symptom pain in the process. Some of the other FingerWeights exercises are used to strengthen the muscles around the joints to help generate more power, and endurance, which end up being helpful for inflammation around the tendons and other non-painful arthritic conditions. 

Listed below are some of the recommended FingerWeights range of motion exercises used to help increase the strength, dexterity, and endurance of the fingers, hands and wrists. By practicing these exercises with FingerWeights, the tendons move the joints through different arcs of motions, as when you bend and straighten your fingers with FingerWeights on, your doing exponentially more than strictly doing the exercises with no level of resistance.

FingerWeights Exercises to Help Prevent Long-Term Injuries:

• Tendon Glide – Hand/Finger
  1. Fingers are Extended Straight Out
  2. Hook Fist; Return to Straight Hand
  3. Full Fist; Return to Straight Hand
  4. Straight Fist; Return to Straight Hand

• Wrist Rotation
  1. Arm at Side with Elbow Bent at 90 Degrees, Palm Facing Down.
  2. Rotate Forearm so that your palm faces up and then down again
• Wrist Range of Motion
  1. Your Forearm is supported on a table (padded if necessary) Thumb Facing Up
  2. Move the Wrist Up and Down with Full Range of Motion
• Wrist Extension
  1. Forearm on table, hand hanging off the edge of table, palm down
  2. Move Hand/Fingers Upward until you feel the stretch
  3. Go Back to Start
  4. Repeat with elbow bent at side, palm facing up

• Thumb Extension
  1. Thumb in Outward Position
  2. Thumb Moves Across Palm and Back to Starting Position

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