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Easy Help for Hurting Hands
Simple daily stretches and exercises to help build strength and flexibility
Sep 17, 2009
Jun 19, 2024
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To stay fit, we work on strengthening everything from our hearts to our calf muscles. Our hands often get no exercise attention at all—that is, until they start hurting.
Hands may ache from repetitive motion or overuse if you enjoy tennis or other racquet sports, have a computer-based job or play a musical instrument. Arthritis also causes hand pain. Even without those specific stressors, the numerous bones, muscles and ligaments in our hands and fingers literally carry the load of many daily activities and sometimes hurt as a result.
Hand stretches and exercises to build strength and flexibility are effective ways to keep your hands pain-free. The following hand helpers take just a few minutes; done daily, they can ease the ache.
Hand Helper #1: Simple Stretch
Hand Helper #2: Hand-Wrist Stretch
Hand Helper #3: Squeeze Play
Hand Helper #4: Thumbs Up