WRIST FLEXOR TENDON GLIDING

The wrist flexor tendon gliding exercise is a wrist mobility exercise. Raise your arm up to 90 degrees shoulder flexion and extend the wrist to 90 degrees extension. Starting with straight fingers, flex your hand so that the fingers are flexed at the middle knuckles and distal knuckles (claw grip). Then straighten the middle and distal knuckles while flexing the proximal knuckles (table top position). From there, bend the middle and proximal knuckles while straightening out the straight knuckles. Finally flex all knuckles to create a full fist. Straighten all knuckles to complete the exercise and repeat as needed.

Muscles Involved:

• Flexor Digitorum Profundus

• Flexor Digitorum Superficialis

Related Conditions:

• Finger Sprain

• Golfer’s Elbow

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

• Pronator Teres Syndrome

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