Wrists
Wrist extensor stretch
Mobility · Seated or standing
- How to do it
- Arm forward, elbow soft, palm facing down. Use the other hand to gently ease the fingers toward you until you feel a stretch on top of the forearm.
- Dose
- 25s · each side
- What you should feel
- The top of your forearm
- Common mistake
- Bouncing into the stretch.
- Make it easier
- Use less pressure from the other hand.
- Avoid this movement if
- You have a flare of wrist tendon pain.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- The other side of the forearm, which does the work of lifting fingers off keys all day.
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)