Wrist Arthritis Exercises Nhs

Level with the injured wrist.

Wrist arthritis exercises nhs. You should do this exercise while sitting or standing. Over time grip strength can weaken and sometimes joint deformities develop making it more difficult to use your hands for day to day activities. Extend your wrist by gently pulling back on your hand until you feel stretching at the inside of your forearm. It s important to work within your pain limits and not to overstretch yourself if you re in pain.

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. Add wrist strengthening and gentle grip strengthening exercises as your pain allows and as advised by your therapist. 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. 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.

Backwards palm up and forwards. 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. To exercise your wrist hold your right arm out with the palm facing down. These exercises are designed to improve the range of movement in your wrist joint following an injury.

Tendonitis de quervain s disease or arthritis. Hold for seconds. Hold for 2 seconds then bend them back to where you started. A light weight can be added as able.

Table in a neutral position. With your wrist over the edge of the. Pain swelling and bruising difficult to move wrist or grip anything. They should be performed slowly.

With the side of your hand rested on a table and your hand loosely clenched bend your wrist and fingers towards you. Keep your elbow straight. Holding a piece of theraband begin. Side to side wrist bend.

Hold the fingers of the hand to be stretched. The following exercises are designed to keep the hand and wrist flexible. With your left hand gently press down on the right hand until you feel a stretch in your wrist and arm. Bending your wrist from left to right is one repetition.

Use larger stronger joints as levers for example take the pressure of opening a heavy door on your shoulder rather than on your hand. Common causes of wrist pain. The exercises in this booklet aim to reduce pain stiffness and swelling improve. Please only perform the exercises as instructed by your therapist.

This information leaflet provides you with exercises to help you recover from your injury or surgery. Hand should hold the theraband.