Wrists
Finger fans
Mobility · Seated or standing
- How to do it
- Spread all fingers wide, then close into a soft fist. Repeat without clenching hard.
- Dose
- 10 reps
- What you should feel
- Your hands opening after hours of typing
- Common mistake
- Clenching hard if hands are sore.
- Make it easier
- Open partway.
- Avoid this movement if
- You have severe hand arthritis and opening the hand is painful.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Opens the hand fully. Typing never does.
Stop this movement if it causes sharp or worsening pain, numbness, weakness or dizziness.
Evidence
General movement principle.
- Effectiveness of workplace interventions in the prevention of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders and symptoms: an update of the evidence (Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2016)