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Patient Handout Download
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Explanation Videos
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Basic Exercises
Accelerate your recovery! 💨 Do these exercises TWICE daily in this sequence while waiting for your physiotherapy appointment. 📅
Stress Ball Squeeze
Reps: 5 Sec hold, 10 Reps, 2 Sets
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- Start: Begin sitting with your hand in a comfortable position, holding a stress ball in your palm.
- Move: Gently squeeze the ball using all of your fingers equally, hold for 5 seconds, release and repeat.
- Tip: Make sure to keep the rest of your arm relaxed during the movement.
Thumb Opposition Exercises
Reps: 5 Sec hold, 10 Reps, 2 Sets
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- Start: Begin sitting with your hand in a comfortable position.
- Move: Touch the tip of your thumb together with one finger, then separate them and repeat with each of your other fingers.
- Tip: Make sure to keep the rest of your arm relaxed during the movement.
Thumb Flexion Exercises
Reps: 5 Sec hold, 10 Reps, 2 Sets
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- Start: Begin sitting upright with your arm resting on a table, palm up, and your thumb straight.
- Move: Bend your thumb toward the opposite corner of your hand. Then return to the starting position and repeat.
- Tip: Make sure to bend all of the joints of your thumb. Keep the rest of your arm relaxed during the exercise.
Thumb AROM Exercises
Reps: As prescribed in video
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- Thumb abduction and adduction
- Thumb opposition
- Thumb blocking exercise