Top 3 Finger Stiffness Exercises (Beginner)
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- In this video, Michelle shows you her Top 3 Finger Stiffness Exercises. These exercises are easy enough for the beginner starting to move their fingers again after an injury. These finger stiffness exercises can also prevent unwanted stiffness due to finger arthritis.
In this follow along video, you'll learn how to increase your finger mobility by moving the small joints of your fingers. By the end of these exercises your whole hand will feel more flexible and free from stiffness.
And added bonus is that no equipment is needed to do these beginner finger stiffness exercises.
All of these exercises work on improving the mobility of your long finger flexors and increase your finger joint range of motion. If you are starting to use your hand again after a finger fracture, hand injury, or looking to get ahead of achy arthritis, these exercises will help!
I am such a huge advocate of finding exercises and movement that increase your finger mobility and hand function. I know you'll find these exercises effective and easy to follow, even without having to use any equipment.
Please comment below to let me, and others, know which one of these (or if all) of these exercises helped you. And share this video with friends and family... I'm sure their hands could use a little TLC too!
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Top 3 Finger Stiffness Exercises (Beginner)
01:35 Exercise #1: DIP Blocking
03:42 Exercise #2: PIP Blocking
05:19 Exercise #3: Hook fist
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This video is for educational and demonstration purposes only and is not to be used as a replacement for seeking medical advice or treatment of your condition. Virtual Hand Care, or its members, do not offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult with your doctor or healthcare provider before starting any exercise program. Please know that performing any exercise or program is solely at your own risk.
Here are a my Top 3 Finger Stiffness Exercises. 👍 These beginner exercises are perfect for anyone beginning their hand and finger mobility journey. 🙌 They are also simple enough to add throughout your day especially if you feel stiffness due to arthritis! Please let me know in the comments below if these helped your stiff fingers! 💪 Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE so I can see all your COMMENTS. 🙏
I have mallet finger on my right hand little finger. Could you please show some exercises to straighten it 🙏🙏
Thank you so very much for your videos!! They are helping me so much!! Especially this video my fingers don’t feel as tight.
thanks
Mine is do to volvar fix surgery on wrist only one week feels like eternity stiffness ! I am moving but I realize this is slow mode ! Thankfully we have therapists with all expertise♥️🌹
I have no insurance and could not afford therapy, your videos help me get my fingers back in motion after an injury. THANKS FOR THE INFO
Hope you recovered.
YEARS I've had this stubborn stiffness and pressure that was driving me insane and an 8-minute video cured it... amazing. Thank you so much!
Hello Michelle. I don't even know what to say, this is such a lifesaver. I have been praying and waiting on the Lord for my healing and I know that He is my healer! It is also good to do therapy and I do not use insurance and I do not have extra funds for this type of specific therapy. I am thrilled to have found your videos. I injured my pinky finger three and a half months ago and then reinjured it twice since then. ..just being a busy busy hard working mom. I basically banged it really hard, then I really did not take care of it and then banged it really hard since then, twice. then one day when I was cleaning an Airbnb, I dropped a plate on it. I did not ice it and I just finished doing all of the cleaning at the Airbnb. So I have been beside myself, worried and in tears, feeling like I will never be able to use my hand again. I have been trusting the Lord and declaring healing over myself. God's Word says that by His strips we are healed, and it is true. He is healing me! I appreciate your free videos more than you know!! Thank you so very much!!! May God Bless you Michelle for all of your precious giving!
Just perfect for me. Thank you Michelle!!! I have been in a wasteland with my top rated HMO in dealing with my badly sprained dominant hand pinky for almost 8 months. All the people I have dealt with there are obviously burned out. Your videos are the dawn after a nightmarish night.
Thankfully I have to say these excercises really help to reduce pain.❤
This was awesome. Totally worked. I’ve been having stiff fingers when I wake up lately and this totally helped. Thanks 🙏
Thank you. I really needed this.
Thank you so much for sharing, for sure I will do that every day as much as I can..God Bless
Very helpful! Thank You!
Definitely feel more mobile! Thank you!❤
Best advice, thank you!
Thank you so much for your instructions ❤
Love it, really helps
Thanks so much !
Thank you so much. This is really helpful!
So good 👍🏽 👏🏽 Thank you!
Thanks! It really helps.
Excellent thank you☺️
Thank you, it's so helpful
Amazing! Thank you sooooo much🌸🌸🌸
I've had pain in my fingers for months and tried different stretches but after doing this video it felt slightly better so I'll make sure to keep doing this. THANK YOU
THANK YOU SO MUCH
Helps a lot!!! I’ve done handmade things all my life, just getting to the age of over use showing, thank you so much!!
Great job thank
thanks for great advise
These are great, thank you!
Thanks for this video!👍
Exercises helped a lot.
Since several injuries, I have a big trouble with my right middle finger. I exercise both hands and I use your drills as a complement of my terapist. Your work is gold. Thanks.
Thank you 💝 great excercise for stiffness, you are a God saver!
THE BEST!!!!!!.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Your videos Helped me a lot
as a beginner guitar player these are the BEST techniques i have come across for flexion. Very excellent
Extremely effective exercise and the demeanor is so pleasing. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Woke up today with middle finger stiff I automatically went online and found this video thank you, this helped get some mobility on finger.
Really helpful thank you... I will let you know how I get on...
Cripes! Instant relief… and thank you so much, your instruction is so clear and explanation of reasons of cause and effect really helps.
🙏 thank you so much
Thank you so much. I have tried many medications and exercises to reduce stiffness but nothing helped much. It gave instant relief to my stiff hands.
your videos have really been helping my PIP strain i got from work i am a dog groomer and my finger was mangled in a collar and its been so rough the past couple months but by watching your videos the past week ive seen progress!!
Thank u ur a helping hand 🖐
Thanks 😊
Great. This is what I needed. You are working so hard for peopl to get rid of the sevear pain. Many thanks.🌷
I appreciate that!
Had trigger finger surgery. Those movements you showed are definently helps.
How is your finger now?
This is heaven sent
1 2 3 did the exercises along with you - I felt relief after
The stiffness in my trigger finger started a few days ago out of the blue
I had Mohs Surgery on top of the effected hand the stiffness is on, the skin is tight on top of that hand at times
❤❤Thanks
Your step by step excercise from BIP to PIP and then the hook fist is very helpful. Now it help me to start gradually and less stress to the joint and nuckles are less painful instead of starting to close the injury hand into fist immediately from the start of the excercise routine. Thanks Michelle
You are welcome! It’s definitely helpful to loosen up the small joints first. So glad you found it helpful. 🙏
Thank you. You saved my hand.
Thank you! Middle finger stiffness & trigger finger. Fingers are sore & going for heat in a minute, but stiffness feels much improved! Think these exercises are going to be my answer; again thank you so much.
Thanks
Hi I am your new subscriber and by the well of GOD I will must watching your all 100+ videos ,very awesome and good effort ,and thenks for giving us such an awesome knowledge related to our field keep it up
As per advised I did for two days, surprisingly my fingers joint relieved fully, thanks
You are so lovely and so informative. It’s so soothing and healing to listen to you.Your exercises are very helpful.Thank you so much for helping all of us with stiff hands.
Thank you for your kind words! 🙏
I’ve only had my stitches out for 2 days, I did these excercises and I can touch all my fingertips together now, im going to continue this all day
Thank you so much! I couldn't really move much after carpal tunnel release surgery because the bandages were restricting my fingers. They felt so stiff i thought they would snap 😢 but your exercises helped me make them feel normal-ish again immediately ❤
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! 🙏
broke my pinky could not afford surgery, 6weeks later here i am - THANK YOU!
It really works.Wish you included the the thumb as well😊
Omg, i wish i saw this video before😊 it really help me
Thank you so much madambig help for me
I'm so glad I came across your channel I just found out I have arthritis it hurts really bad now that I'm doing your exercise its helping with my stiffness and soreness thank you so
Happy to have you and thankful these are helping!
That is just what I need! My trigger thumb is finally with less
inflammation. The 👌 hand exercises makes a big difference in the functioning of my hand. Thank you.
I love hearing this!! 🙏Happy to help!
Me too!
Gosh! Thank you! I have a 4 month old over use injury from gripping a drill building a deck. Thought I ruined my fingers. I’m going to try these right away!!
Got bit by a husky a few months ago and have scar tissue like right on my index pip joint, this helped so much. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this. I fractured my wrist and have had really stiff swollen fingers since my cast came off a week ago and this is the best I've felt yet
This is wonderful to hear! 🙌
I've had gout issues in my hands and had a bad attack in my left hand over two years ago. I've tried all kind of things. My index finger doesn't have much range of motion at all. I'm mainly a bass player and it doesn't affect that so much. I do play a little bit of guitar and I'm having trouble playing a couple basic chords that I didn't have trouble playing before. I did the exercises on that finger and I'm feeling clicking in there now. I have a feeling this is going to work and I will continuously do the exercises. I do want to thank you very much. I can do most things but it really bothers me that those couple basic chords I can't play well anymore. Anyway I will try to keep you posted. Thanks again. Happy new year.
Thank you for your video I had stiches on my index finger at the knuckle and did not move it for 2 months. I will start doing these exercises As I can`t bend my finger.
This is the first time I have been able to bend my finger properly in weeks! Thank you
How is your finger now?
I have a question after I wake up from my sleep my stiffness in my finger is really bad i cant bend it
So what happened? Are you good?
Thanks for this vedio, I am facing stiffness in my fingers since more than an year. Before watching this tried all the exercises but not I was not getting relief. After trying this for the first time I see some relief and hopefully qll the pain will go. Thanks a lot..
For the first time, I'm be to move my very stiff fingers section by section. I'm confident thry will become more flexible. Thank you!
Thank you, I am trying to get back to studying classical guitar after many years and my fingers are arthritic and very stiff. This is very helpful to me thank you for posting.
Great video thank you ! :) question : with stiff fingers, during sleep at night, how should hand be placed ? sleeping with fist, or dangling loose fingers, or... ?
I'm here after I broke my middle finger and this actually helps me a lot! Thank you!
How is it now?
It's good, I gained all the mobility back and no pain so far
@@alexv491 That’s great news!
Did you have surgery for it?
And how long did it take to gain full mobility?
No surgery, just gypsum for a month, doctor said the mobility will came back in time but after 2 weeks of doing these exercises I got full mobility, a little stiff after but that fade out. Now I don't have a problem lifting anything, not even with the pull-ups 🙏🏼
So I definitely feel like this video helped me a lot.
Thank you so much!! ♥These exercises have been doing wonders for my jammed index finger with 4 month of chronic inflammation, I can really feel the stiffness go away and I also get more mobility! Would you also recommend doing these on a mallet finger injury with almost 2 months of healing? (about to remove splint) I really don't know which types of exercises would be ideal for this condition. Thank you once again! ❤
Thank you! My finger stiffness does feel better after following these exercises. Any supplements that you could recommend? Could it be gout in my middle finger? Stiffness and swelling in my middle finger PIP joint.
Great video. These exercises already help. I know a lot of people who would love to see a video on how to recovery from pulley injuries that often happen to rock climbers. There are already some videos on this but you have a really nice presentation style and are incredibly knowledgeable about the specifics of fingers. I have a pulley injury on my index finger (a mild strain, just irritated, nothing requiring surgery) but is taking a really long time to go away. I would love to hear your suggestions for how to rehab this. There are a LOT of rock climbers who would be very interested I'm sure. Thank you for your videos. They're great.
You are welcome and thank you for the kind words. I definitely need to do a pulley injury video. They can take a long time to heal as I’m sure you know. I will add that to my list!
@@VirtualHandCare This is the current video a lot of rock climbers watch but it is really long! ua-cam.com/video/_AxN5HyBLfM/v-deo.html
I like the last one using your hood hand between the webs which blocks the MPs. My OT made a plastic splint but it hurt my MPs where the K wires were. This doesn’t hurt my MPs and actually holds them from not bending better.
These are great! Fingers felt so much better after just working along with the video. I’ll be using this exercises for certain. Can’t wait to show Dad!
Wonderful! I can't wait to hear how your Dad feels after trying them!
@@VirtualHandCare He loves it! So does Mom…Thank you!
This is very informative, thank you!
do you have any videos on flexor tendon injury rehab?
Not specifically for flexor tendons however a lot of my finger exercise videos are helpful depending where you are in your recovery journey.
Thank you so much for uploading these videos. The exercises really help. I have had RA flare up and my middle finger joint was achy and stiff. These exercises really help.
Glad it helped!
Same issues vd me m RA patient
Thank you so much, I had wrist surgery on 8/31/21, it's been so painful. I started hand therapy last Monday.
Seeing how to hold my hand while trying to do the hook helps alot.
These are very difficult for me to do. I will be happy when nerve pain goes away. The numbness is also painful but not as bad as the nerve pain.
Your channel is so much help.
Kind regards, Kathy
Keep up the hand therapy! It definitely gets better!
Thank you, I hope so. So far the only way to make this easier is to use damp hand socks and heat.
I worked with a temp agency since 2019 so I didn't have insurance, so when I fell on 6/27/21 and broke it, I couldn't get the care I needed until insurance kicked in. So my fingers haven't been bent since end of June.
Surgeon had to re-break my wrist, got 2 clips inserted, bone graph and plate.
I'm glad I found your channel, I only had so far 1 hand therapy session. More on the way. My hope is back. Hand therapy is awesome, painful and so necessary.
My hand therapist is a very nice gentleman, he says, this might hurt but it gets better :)
How is your wrist and fingers now?
Thank you for this video! when you are not doing the exercises, are you supposed to put your splint back on for the rest of the day/ night?
Thanks from Turkey 👋🏻
Wow oh. my. god.
I am a full time office worker and full-time gamer and I spend all day every day at a computer. I'm also a young adult with arthritis. I never once thought to try and isolate the muscle groups in my fingers and do some of these exercises before but I relieved my acute symptoms instantly with these exercises and I will be adding them to my routine with the hopes they help my chronic pain as well!
Thank you so much!
Any thoughts on working two fingers together at the same time in isolated groups? I.E. the middle and ring finger at the same time?
Hello, I'm 13 and about 2 weeks ago when I was training jiu jitsu, a little accident happened and my ring finger on my left got dislocated. My coach who used to do nursing attempted to relocate my finger. And well, it was better, not too twisted up anymore, just very slightly. Then later going back home, my finger was swelling up like crazy. I could barely move it, it just hurt. My 2 coaches said I didn't need to go to a doctor and to just have it heal by itself. The next day, I splinted my finger up, with a popsicle stick and an old stretchy sock. I had it splinted for just about a day. It was hard to straighten the finger but I managed to do it. Then after a few days my finger seemed like it was starting to get better. And now it's been about 2 weeks, my finger has gained quite a lot of its mobility and strength back, and I can effortlessly straighten the finger now. Only thing is, it's just still bruised quite a bit and I can't make a full fist yet. But I can nearly make a fist and fully bend the ring finger. So I'm just asking, in how long would you say I could start training again? Could I start training again with my finger taped up? And in how long would it fully heal without needing to go to a doctor? Thank you!
Great exercises. I broke my middle finger. I couldn’t move it for 3 months! Thank you for these amazing exercises.💖
You're so welcome!
I hope I will be able to move them too... I broke my finger in December, I don't need to use splint or anything anymore but my finger is stiff 😭 I'm so scared to not be able to move it
Did your finger is good now ? I going through same stiffness and scared @@9bubble92
Your videos are amazing! I have a fractured finger at the pip joint and I am going to need an hemi hamate arthroplasty surgery to fix it. I'm confident that with your videos I can see as much as 80% movement back 🙂
How is it now?
@@dnangel4277 I’m getting the surgery next week. I can open and close my hand now after doing physical therapy.
Did you experience something like this?
@@therealistseb6597 I had surgery about 2 months ago and am doing hand therapy at the moment.
I can’t quite form a fist but my right index finger has more mobility than right after surgery.
@@dnangel4277 That’s awesome, keep at it!
Mine is dislocated and broken. The strap that she recommends in the video works a lot. I slept with it on, and that’s what did it for me to be able to open and close my hand daily.
Thank alooooot mam..🥰🥰
Do you offer consultations? Where is your practice located?
Thank you. I just started working in a ware house packing clothes and my fingers started to randomly cramp up. This really helped
Hey I have a question if you don’t mind
I jammed my middle finger 2 months ago wrestling and it hasn’t gone down in swelling around the middle joint. The doctor put me in a splint for 2 weeks and now I can only bend it 50%. What should I do?
Hi Michelle
I had a fracture in my wrist and the doctor put a cast on my hand for 1 and half month now he removed the cast n he ask me to do the physio, my wrist is still tuff and my middle crease is tuff it was hard to move my fingers down after doing your exercise it helped me my finger's to move down the pip lock but my thumb and crease and my wrist is stiff can you suggest the exercise for the wrist stiffness and because of the thumb stiffness i cannot open wide my hand.thank you
I have a lot of stiffness in my left hand, and I tried this and I could not believe this relief and now I can actually close my fist whereas I couldn’t before, I do have arthritis and where I’m 71 years old I’ve do brickwork and it really stiffened up, thank you for posting this I will do it 3 x a day
I love hearing this!! You are welcome and thank you for sharing how this felt for you!
I have pain/ soreness in my knuckle portion and the straight joint part just below it. I am a spin bowler and I have to bend and put pressure on my fingers to turn the ball.
I can’t grip the ball anymore neither can turn it. Affecting my performance drastically.
Can you suggest me any exercises to recover from this and also to strengthen my finger joints.
Thankyou.
I've been a follower of this channel for a few months and found some of the execr-ized useful for regaining hand mobiltiy. I broke my wrist and required surgery.
In the accident my median nerve was damaged. I've had physical therapy and have regained full mobility of my hand. I can make a natural quick tight strong fist.
But because I'm getting bad feedback from my fingers it feels as if I'm stiff even when I'm not bending those two fingers or my thumb. As I'm slowly regaining sensation the sensation if stiffness is decreasing. My conclusion is that median nerve damage can be mistaken for joint stiffness. Faulty proprioception and lack of fine sensation can be mistaken for loss of mobility if you aren't looking at the hand as you use it. Peripheral neuropathy can have the same effect.
My point is that exercises need to be matched to actual needs and the person who has a problem may not be able to identify exactly what the problem is. imo That is why an evaluation by a PTs isn't just useful, but necessary.
Thank you for sharing your experience and I completely agree with you! I wish more doctors would refer to Occupational Therapists and Physical Therapists. Unfortunately, regulations, insurance, accessibility, and even lack of awareness are still challenges to many people receiving services.
Any exercise to relieve knee joints? Please share.
Your video helps me a lot to minimize my stiffness on my fingers while wearing my cast. I've had my wrist fracture 2 months ago. Thanks a lot.
How's your fingers?
I had the same problem, do you still have the stiffness in the middle crease area and are you able to move your wrist? it will help me
Just tried your exercises on my fingers which were too stiff and painful and could not bend but within minutes, they became flexible.. Thankyou so much
India
same
Michelle, while doing the DIP flexes I can't move my finger back to the straight position without using my other hand to put it back in place. Any suggestions to help me move my finger back to the straight position? All fingers were in a cast for six weeks and now very stiff - almost immobile but all bones are healed.