Simple Home Exercises for Hand to Improve Hand Mobility

If you have got injured with hand? Did you ever need skilled physical therapy for hand problems? If you have been to physical therapist you know how skilled physical therapy can help you. Physical therapy will be more effective if patient is involve in their home exercise programme. It really helps to speed the reverie.

Physical therapist may use paraffin wax, hot packs, E-stim, ultrasound, STM, joint mobilization and other manual therapy. After skilled therapy he or she will teach you exercise like putty, gripping exercises which will be done in office and some of them they will advice to carry out modified exercises at home.

There are many problems of wrist/ hand can lead to hand weakness, stiffness some of them are listed below: 

• Colles' fracture
• Smith's fracture
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteo arthritis
• Cervical radiculopathy
• Storke
• Other fracture
• Tendonitis
• Any immobilization of upper extremity

Most common home Range of motion exercises are: 

• Simple moving wrist up/down, side to side
• Making a fist and opening it
• Opening and closing individual fingers
• Moving thumb in all directions 

Most common home strengthening exercises are: 

• Making fist tight and opening it
• Gripping small towel and releasing it
• Gripping different size objects
• Using putty, dough
• Push objects with fingers 

All exercises should be performed according to your physical therapist’s advice and if any exercise increases your pain let Physical Therapy New Hyde Park, NY know they should be able to modify it according to your pain.

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