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Six Hand Exercises. “6-pack”. Exercise #1. Make a “tabletop” with your fingers: Keep your wrist and the end and middle joints of your fingers straight. Only bend at the base joints (your knuckles). Exercise #2. Keep your base joints (knuckles) and wrist straight.
Active Hand Exercises (Six Pack) 1. DIP/PIP Flexion/MCP Extension • Bend the first two joints of fingers down. Hold for _____ seconds. Do _____ times, _____ times per day. 2. Open/Close Hand • Hold your arms out straight in front of your chest. • Open your hand and fingers fully. • Close your hand and fingers fully.
ACTIVE HAND EXERCISES “6 PACK”. STRAIGHT: straighten your fingers as much as possible. TABLETOP: Make a tabletop with your fingers by keeping your wrists and your fingers straight. Bend ONLY at the knuckles. HOOK: Keep your knuckles …
ACTIVE HAND EXERCISES (SIX PACK) These directions are intended for home treatment and not as a prescription for use by a professional occupational/physical therapist. Repeat each exercise times. 1.
This is a set of exercises intended to keep the ligaments, capsule and tendons of your fingers moving normally. You can perform these exercises whilst your wrist is immobilised in a splint or a cast.
FIGURE 16-20. "Six-pack" exercises. Drawings I through 6 illustrate the position that the patient's hand should assume when performing these exercises. It is helpful to illus- trate to the patient that full metacar- pophalangeal (MP) extension makes the hand look like an arrow, full MP flexion makes the hand look like a
ACTIVE HAND EXERCISES “6 PACK” 1. STRAIGHT: straighten your fingers as much as possible. 2. TABLETOP: Make a tabletop with your fingers by keeping your wrists and your fingers straight. Bend ONLY at the knuckles. 3.HOOK: Keep your knuckles and wrist straight. Bend and straighten your fingers. (As if reaching for your rings).
Six Pack Active Hand Exercises 1) Imaginary Tabletop. Make a tabletop with your fingers by keeping your wrists and your fingers straight. Bend only at the knuckles.
Six Pack Finger Exercises. These 6 exercises permit all the major thumb and finger joints to gradually regain their full range of motion by employing the muscle groups involved. Perform six repetitions of each exercise with the whole group performed 6-8 times per day.