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5. Swing your arms when you walk. Surprisingly, many people limit their arm swing with casual walking. When walking for exercise, you can focus on increasing your natural arm swing. This increases the use of the trunk, shoulder, and armmuscles. It also helps improve circulation into your upper extremities.
Recovery after injury Therapy helps your hand, wrist, or elbow injury recovery. Whether it was a sprain, casting, or you needed surgery, an occupational therapist or CHT is vital in helping you regain full range of motion, and strength. After injury, your muscles weaken rapidly, and prolonged immobilzation leads to a stiffening of the connective tissues in the hand, wrist and forearm. With gentle hands-on techniques, your therapist helps to restore natural full movement of the joints. In addition, specific exercises are done to rehabilitate your muscles back to a supportive health. Therapy helps your hands Certified Hand Therapists are the experts in evaluating alignment and movement patterns of the hand, wrist, and elbow. Often the painful area is compensating for poor posture and alignment in other areas. By working on these other problem areas, better finger, hand and wrist movement can occur, distributing normal daily forces across all the joints, and not focused on a few. Carpal Tunnel Carpal tunnel is a very commoncondition that occurs in thewrist, affecting the median nerve, which can cause numbness, tingling, weakness, and pain to the thumb and first two fingers. Poor posture and repetivitive tasks are usually the main reasons carpal tunnel occurs. The carpal ligament crossing the wrist becomes tight, pressing on the nerve underneath it. Many people have excellent results with therapy first, especially if they are seen early in their symptoms.
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