When you have osteoarthritis of the hands, the most routine motions and actions that everyone else takes for granted, tend to become huge challenges to you. Osteoarthritis of the hands is even worse to experience than when this disease strikes te legs. You routinely use your hands much more than you use your legs. You need to brush your teeth, get dressed in the morning, Dial phone and get breakfast ready. There are just so many intricate things you need to do that become nearly impossible. The good part is that if you could persevere with a few exercises for osteoarthritis every day, you willhave every hope of seeing things get better.
These exercises for osteoarthritis that you read about now need to be taken up with caution. Do try to talk to your doctor about their use and see what he thinks. Try your best to do these exercises in a gentle way. You don't want to force yourself to much or try there a precedent exercise motions.
The first thing they need to do is to strengthen all the knuckles in your hands. They call this kind of exercise finger blocking. To do this, you need to lay one hand down flat on its back on the table, and use your other hand to press down on that hand in such a way that the entire hand is covered, except for the last segment of each finger. You won't be able to bend those fingers except for the last segments that are free.
You need to bend and straighten the free segments of those fingers repeatedly. You will need to do this for both hands. This is an exercise that will really help most useful parts of your fingers get a little exercise.
The next thing you need to do is to exercise your wrists. The more you move them, the better they are going to get. Since your wrists can move every which way, you will need to exercise moving them in different directions. you will need to hold your forearm out and open your palm like you are taking an oath. You'll then need to make an up-and-down motion like you were waving goodbye in a stiff kind of way. The other kind of wrist exercise has to do with how your rotate your hand.
Lay your hand open on a table, and turn your wrist backwards and forwards so that your open palm falls onto the table or opens out.
Muscle muscle strengthening exercises can be very useful exercises for osteoarthritis. The stronger the muscles of the hand are, the more support they will be able to provide to your weakened bones. An important month muscle strengthening exercise would be to crumple up a large sheet of paper - say a newspaper. You need to start with a full sheet of newspaper, and then use one hand to crumple it up as quickly as you can.
