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THE FINGERS 2.

Your difficulty is:

Tight Muscles: Equipment: Starting Position:

Stretching:

Stimulation:

Common Errors:

Notes:

Normal Mobility:

Bringing curled fingers up toward the back of your hand and away froin the other fingers. The exercise shown here stretches muscle attached to little finger (4.) The same procedurę may be used for all fingers.

Muscles in palm: 1-4 interossei palmares.

Corner of table, counter or the like.

Stand with table corner at right; turn right arm inward to limit. Rest palm on forward edge of table, knuckles at edge, fingers hanging down free over edge. Bend outer and rniddle joints of little finger to limit; keep knuckle joint straight. Grip right little finger between left thumb (on fingemail and outer joint) and left forefinger (down on knuckle).

1.    With left forefinger, puli right little finger up, back and out from third finger, so that stretch is felt in little-finger muscle in palm.

2.    Tense muscle as if to clench little finger to palm; resist with left forefinger for 5 seconds.

3.    Relax and puli little finger further up, back and out from third finger. to limit - may be 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.    Release grip.

2.    Move little finger up, back and out from third finger, to limit.

3.    Resist that movement with left thumb.

4.    Hołd position a few seconds.

*    Forearm not turned inward.

*    Edge of palm not held to table.

1.    As shown to the right. grip may be reversed: left thumb at knuckle, left forefinger and rniddle finger on right little fingernail.

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

3.    Other muscles slretched in palm are numbered 1, 2 and 3.

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

Bent little finger should be able to move back, up and out about 45 degrees from your third finger.

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