Fast Fitness - Prevent Wrist Pain During Pushups and Cooking
Friday, February 08, 2008
Jolie Bookspan, M.Ed, PhD, FAWM
Good positioning and strength is more effective than splinting wrists straight and restricting activity:
- While sitting or standing, press your right wrist and hand backward strongly using your left hand. Feel the right wrist compress under the weight of the other hand.
- Now use your right hand and forearm muscles to press forward against the left hand. You should feel the compression come off the right wrist.
- Hold a pushup position. Use this technique so that, regardless of your weight, instead of letting your weight compress your wrists, you use your hand and forearm muscles. Keep weight distributed across your hand, not just on the heel of the hand.
Use this whenever you use your wrists - for weightlifting, for standing on your hands, for typing, driving, biking, playing piano, and during cooking and cleaning.---
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Read and contribute your own success stories of these methods. Before asking questions, see if your answers are already here - click labels under posts, links in posts, archives at right, and the Fitness Fixer Index. Subscribe to The Fitness Fixer, free. Click "updates via e-mail" (under trumpet) upper right.
For answers to personal medical questions - Replies to Medical Questions. Limited Class spaces for personal evaluation. Top students may apply to certify through DrBookspan.com/Academy. See Dr. Bookspan's Books.
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Labels: abdominal muscles, arm, biking, fast fitness, fix pain, hand, strength, wrist, yoga
2 Comments:
At Thursday, February 07, 2008 5:59:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
Iam sure you dont get this question a lot, but how do you decrease the muscle in your legs. I have always been a runner, and was restrictive with my eating, once I started eating more I feel like I bulked up in my legs despite running alot ( i have always had lean legs.) I dont have weight to loss to be honest, meaning on the scale, but I just want to lose the muscle or lean out my legs. Have you ever seen this happen to someone before?
Thanks,
Christie
At Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:05:00 PM,
tabletoo said…
Thanks for this info/suggestion. I have wrist problems and it's been hard to undertand how not to dump into the wrists while doing yoga. I think I'm just beginning to feel the difference that you are describing. Perhaps if my arm muscles were stronger I could do this more effectively.
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