Let’s see how to stretch the muscles of the forearm to avoid losing flexibility in the flexor and extensor muscles and thus avoid pain or injury.
Regularly in the world of sports and in particular in the bodybuilding, there are many practitioners who suffer from some problem in the forearms such as tendonitis and other injuries usually caused by repetitive efforts in the area.
Tightness in the flexors or extensors of the wrist can cause microtears, inflammation, rupture of the tendon.
It can even generate conditions of feeling of loss of strength in those who use a large amount of grip force either in vibrating tools, in working with the keyboard or simply with repetitive movements of the wrist and hand.
In this series of exercises to stretch forearms you can prevent the main injuries and in turn gain flexibility for better performance in the sport you practice, whatever it may be.
FOREARM STRETCHING EXERCISES
STRETCH FOR WRIST EXTENDERS
- 1 From the wrist extensors, originating above the elbow, they must stretch the elbow in order to lengthen these muscles completely.
- 2 With the right elbow place the palm down, that is, facing the ground.
- 3 Then we use the other hand to pull down and out the forearm to stretch.
WRIST FLEXOR LIFT
- 1 In the case of wrist flexors, these originate above the elbow.
- 2 To stretch them we will place the right elbow, palm up.
- 3 Then use the other hand to pull the forearm to stretch to the ground.
STRETCHING FOR THUMB EXTENSORS
- 1 Take your thumb firmly with your other four fingers.
- 2 Then while keeping the wrist in a neutral position, turn it towards the floor.
All these exercises keep them for 30 seconds, and perform at least 2 or 3 repetitions every day to notice in a short time how it improves the flexibility of your forearms.
Losing balance between the length of the flexor and extensor muscles can result in injuries and inflammations, for example; Generating: tendinitis, tenosynovitis, or bursitis.
Stretching exercises prevent adhesions between different tendons if inflammation is introduced through microtrauma or microtrauma.
This will allow us to avoid pain in the wrist and the aforementioned injuries, which usually appear over time after performing repetitive tasks in a prolonged way.
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