Gary & Carla Goldberg on fri 16 apr 99
Hi everyone - with all this talk about health I thought I should let you
know a carpal tunnel prevention technique I learned from teaching
aerobics.
NOTE: If you already have carpal tunnel, this won't make it go away.
If you don't have it and do the exercises, you can help mitigate the
syndrome.
Bend elbows at a 90 degree angle (hands are parallel to the floor).
Hold your hands in a fist (or grab a very light weight or a chunk of wet
clay). Do little reverse curls up towards you (fingers face floor, back
of hand faces up). Then reverse and do it with fingers toward ceiling
and back of hand towards floor. DON'T twist your wrists right and left
when you do this.
This strengthens the muscles, which helps prevent your joints from
getting tired and having carpal tunnel like symptoms.
Keep healthy so you can keep playing in the mud!
- Carla in Alaska - Where our mud is still frozen.
Marty Anderson on sat 17 apr 99
This exercise also helps prevent tennis elbow. Instead of the weights, you
hold your arms outreached with palm open facing down. Fingers of the other
hand are used to gently bend the outreached hand back and then bend it down.
Applying this pressure with the other hand stretches the tendons attached at
the elbow thus strengthening them and it will help prevent tennis elbow, and
help cure same.
marty
martya@airmail.net
---Original Message-----
From: Gary & Carla Goldberg
To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
Date: Friday, April 16, 1999 7:15 AM
Subject: Carpal tunnel Prevention
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi everyone - with all this talk about health I thought I should let you
>know a carpal tunnel prevention technique I learned from teaching
>aerobics.
>
>NOTE: If you already have carpal tunnel, this won't make it go away.
>If you don't have it and do the exercises, you can help mitigate the
>syndrome.
>
>Bend elbows at a 90 degree angle (hands are parallel to the floor).
>Hold your hands in a fist (or grab a very light weight or a chunk of wet
>clay). Do little reverse curls up towards you (fingers face floor, back
>of hand faces up). Then reverse and do it with fingers toward ceiling
>and back of hand towards floor. DON'T twist your wrists right and left
>when you do this.
>
>This strengthens the muscles, which helps prevent your joints from
>getting tired and having carpal tunnel like symptoms.
>
>Keep healthy so you can keep playing in the mud!
>- Carla in Alaska - Where our mud is still frozen.
>
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