Scrubbing Exercises for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Video Transcript

" Hi! I am Monica and I am going to show you another exercise you can do if you have CRPS. Again this might be something that a physical therapist or an occupational therapist might have you do at home and it’s called scrubbing. So what you want to do is get on your hands and knees and with this form of scrubbing we are assuming that it is the upper extremity that is affected by CRPS. In this case we are going to do with my left hand and scrubbing is just like it sounds. You have something on your hand; it can literally be a scrub brush if you want to. In this case I just have a towel and I am just going to be scrubbing on the grounds. You want to make sure you are getting some weightbearing through the arm that is actually doing the movement and you want to make sure the movement is back and forth so right like this just up and down. You do more weightbearing, you shift more on to this hand or we shift it this way, you can go less weightbearing. So starting off, less weightbearing and then once you get used to it, you can do more and more weightbearing so that this arm, your affected arm, is actually going to be holding some of your body weight on it, its right like that. "