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Finger Pain From Texting? 3 SmartPhone Stretches to Save Your Wrists & Hands
As if being on-call 24/7 thanks to your smart phone (and less-than awesome boss) weren’t bad enough, you can now thank your BlackBerry for more than just your failing social life. If you thought your grandma-like hearing problems from your iPod were the only downsides of technological advances, think again. Thanks to our constantly typing away and crunching up our fingers to email and text, carpel tunnel, tendonitis and general digit discomfort are on the rise.
Thankfully, though, Stephanie Mansour, body image coach and Chicago-based personal trainer, has us covered with three finger-flexing moves to keep our hands and wrists pain free for many years of unlimited texting plans to come.
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1. Place right hand straight in front of you, like you are giving someone a high five. Then, turn hand clockwise so that fingers are pointing down, and wrist is up. Hold onto your fingers with your left hand and pull fingers away from your wrist, creating space at the base of your hand and lower forearm. Hold for 10 seconds. Repeat on the left side, turning your hand counterclockwise instead.
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2. Bringing hands in a prayer position in front of your chest, simply lower your hands down through the center of your chest and stomach, keeping hands pressed together. Repeat 10 times.
3. With hands in prayer position in front of your chest, turn fingers so they are facing down towards the floor, then lower your hands down through the center of your body, keeping hands pressed together. Repeat this 10 times.
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