Yoga Therapy for the Hands, Wrists and Forearms
We use our hands for almost everything we do throughout the day, from checking email to chopping vegetables for dinner. On top of this, if your work requires you to use your hands in repetitive motions, then the muscles and joints of the hands, wrists and forearms are particularly at risk for inflammation.
Practicing this therapeutic sequence of exercises increases strength and flexibility in the small muscles of the hands and fingers, where over 25% of our body’s bones are located, helping reduce inflammation, removing built-up stress and increasing range of motion.
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great session Erica
I find it helpful before my training in handstand pushups
I appreciate it
Manos
The whole sequence left my arms and hands feeling refreshed and invigorated. I'm a massage therapist and have just found my new regular practice to help keep things functioning well! Thanks very much!
Hi Erica. I'm 21 years old and I think I am well too young to have the amount of tightness in my hands that I do. I worked construction the past two summers when I wasn't in school and that's where I think this tightness has come from. Even though I'm not doing construction right now (just school) my hands are still insanely tight and seem to be getting worse. I can seriously feel a ball of tight muscles in the webbing between my index finger and thumb. I also have a lot of tightness in that muscle on the outside of the hand below the pinky. My forearms and wrist also have really tight muscles. The tightness never goes away; it's constantly there every hour, day and night. I'm concerned for myself and feel like the posture of my hands is getting poorer. I stretch them at a very minimum of 10 minutes each morning, because I would not be able to get through a day without the stretching. But that still seems to only go so far and will only last me for about an hour before I feel the same tightness i felt before I stretched.
Just this week I started doing yoga for my hands and have found an amazing amount of relief of tension in my fingers and arms as I watch your video and others. Do you have any idea what my hand problem might be? Seriously, I'm 21. I don't think I should be having to go to this great of lengths just to have my hands feel normal for an hour out of the day. Any suggestions or thoughts? Would love to hear from you. This video has been great for me so far. Thank you so much.
I have been trying to alleviate DeQuervains syndrome for months now. I have been doing bits and pieces of what you pull together for me in this video. Hopefully it will not aggravate it an make it worse while it builds some strength and more flexibility. I am going to try and do this on a daily basis for awhile and see if it helps