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THE FINGERS 1.

Yourdifficulty is:

Tight Muscles: Equipment: Starting Position:

Stretching:

Stimuiation:

Common Error:

Bringing curled fingers up toward the back of your hand and closer to the other fingers, with your wrist straight. The exercise shown here stretches muscle attached to forefinger (1.) The same procedurę may be used for all fingers.

Smali muscles in back of hand: 1-4 interossei dorsales.

Chair or stool.

Sit with wrist straight, right forearm and hand supported on right thigh: bend outer and middle joints of forefinger to limit. Grip right forefinger between left forefinger (on fingernail) and thumb (just above knuckle).

1.    With left hand press forefinger up, back and toward little finger so that stretch is felt in forefinger muscles in hand.

2.    Tense these muscles as if to bend knuckle joint; resist with left hand for 5 seconds.

3.    Relax and push forefinger up, back and morę toward little finger, to limit - maybe a little bit morę.

4.    Repeat until you feel you can stretch no further and muscles feel tight. Hołd this finał stretch from 15 seconds to a minutę or morę.

1.    Move forefinger up, back and toward little finger, to limit.

2.    Resist that movement with left thumb.

3.    Hołd position a few seconds.

* Wrist bent backward.

Notes:

Normal Mobility:

1.    You can stretch fingers one by one or all together, in both directions.

2.    Muscles stretched in back of hand are numbered 2, 3 and 4.

3.    This stretch can counteract ache or cramp in hand.

Bent forefinger should be able to move up and back 45 to 90 degrees, and slightly toward little finger.

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