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Summary: How to do a hook fist stretch to relieve symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome; get expert tips and advice on treating carpal tunnel pain in this free physical therapy video.
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Monica Paradise Monica Paradise works at Industrial Hand and Physical Therapy in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a degree in exercise sc... read more
Hi! I’m Monica and these last exercises I am going to show you for carpal tunnel syndrome actually deal with the tendons as they are gliding right here to the carpal tunnel. These exercises are going to help your tendons keep moving and keep gliding to the tunnel so they don’t get stuck and bogged down with scar tissue or anything like that. So the first one what you are going to want to do is with your hands. I will show it up here, but you can also do on the table if you want to, but what we are going to do is start with your hand and extend it like this and then you just going to bend your fingers down like that. So kind of in a hooked position right here called as a hook fist that is nice right and through here. You want your wrists just nice and relaxed so in usual position, again, it’s about that 20 degrees that is usually most comfortable. So right in just like this: up and down. You are not trying to strengthen and squeeze necessarily at the bottom you are just doing this exercise more for motion, so up and down just right like that nice and slow.