Wrist Arthritis Exercises Nhs

Tendonitis de quervain s disease or arthritis.

Wrist arthritis exercises nhs. Bending your wrist from left to right is one repetition. To exercise your wrist hold your right arm out with the palm facing down. Gently bend your wrist forwards and backwards keeping your fingers relaxed. A little bit of pain or discomfort while you re exercising that you can cope with doesn t mean you re doing yourself any harm.

With your left hand gently press down on the right hand until you feel a stretch in your wrist and arm. Hold for 2 seconds then bend them back to where you started. The following exercises are designed to keep the hand and wrist flexible. The exercises in this booklet aim to reduce pain stiffness and swelling improve.

Add wrist strengthening and gentle grip strengthening exercises as your pain allows and as advised by your therapist. Use larger stronger joints as levers for example take the pressure of opening a heavy door on your shoulder rather than on your hand. Please only perform the exercises as instructed by your therapist. Over time grip strength can weaken and sometimes joint deformities develop making it more difficult to use your hands for day to day activities.

Increase the weights and the repetitions of the previous exercises as you are able. Start to carry out exercise 3 with full active movement of your wrist off the edge of the table without the assistance of your good hand. This information leaflet provides you with exercises to help you recover from your injury or surgery. With your wrist over the edge of the.

Pain swelling and bruising difficult to move wrist or grip anything. They should be performed slowly. Arthritis can cause the joints of the hand and wrist to become painful stiff and swollen. Hold the fingers of the hand to be stretched.

Extend your wrist by gently pulling back on your hand until you feel stretching at the inside of your forearm. Table in a neutral position. Holding a piece of theraband begin. Backwards palm up and forwards.

These exercises are designed to improve the range of movement in your wrist joint following an injury. A light weight can be added as able. Pain swelling and stiffness at the base of the finger that lasts a long time may be hard to move fingers and thumb may have a lump. Keep your elbow straight.

With the side of your hand rested on a table and your hand loosely clenched bend your wrist and fingers towards you. Use several joints to spread the weight of an object for example use both hands to carry your shopping or distribute the weight evenly by using a rucksack. Side to side wrist bend. Common causes of wrist pain.

Hand should hold the theraband. Hold for seconds.