Wrists
Wrist flexor stretch
Mobility · Seated or standing
- How to do it
- Arm forward, elbow soft, palm facing up. Use the other hand to gently ease the fingers toward the floor until you feel a stretch in the forearm.
- Dose
- 25s · each side
- What you should feel
- The underside of your forearm
- Common mistake
- Locking the elbow hard.
- Make it easier
- Use less pressure from the other hand.
- Avoid this movement if
- You have numbness or tingling in the hand, or a recent wrist injury.
- Why DeskBreak uses it
- Lengthens the forearm muscles that grip a mouse and hold the fingers over a keyboard.
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)