How to Use Yoga to Stretch Hands
When arthritis strikes, it can do a real number on your hands. Your hands may swell, get stiff and achy and, in a worse case scenario, become disfigured and dysfunctional due to rheumatoid arthritis.There are yoga postures that you can do to stretch your hands, which will help you deal with the hand pain and stiffness caused by arthritis and age.
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Instructions
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Engage in the prayer position. Press palms together, as if you were praying. Press each individual finger against the matching finger on the other hand.
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Keep your hands in the prayer position and press your forearms together. The prayer position, done with or without the forearms touching, stretches your hand muscles and helps to straighten your fingers. You will feel a stretch in your shoulders when you press the forearms together.
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Maintaining the prayer position, spread your fingers apart while the fingers are keeping in contact with the fingers on the other hand.
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Remember to do your deep yoga breathing, inhaling and exhaling, slowly, through your nostrils when you do any yoga posture.
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Press the base of each finger, located at the top of your palms, together.
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Press the base of your palms together and allow your fingers to separate and create a V formation.
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Separate your hands. Curl fingers and then straighten them.
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Do the valley massage. Using the shaft of your right index finger, rub in between the fingers on your left hand. Repeat on the right hand, using the shaft of your left index finger.
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Try this exercise called rub the deer’s head. Stroke the top of your left hand with your right hand. Stroke all of the way up to the elbow. Perform this on your other hand and arm.
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Perform peacock’s tail. Wrap your left middle finger over your left index finger. Wrap your ring finger over your middle finger, which is on top of your index finger. Wrap your little finger over your ring finger, which is on top of your middle finger. Hold and then do it on the other hand.
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Resources
- Photo Credit http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/back_pain/preventionback_posture.shtml
