Top 5 Wrist Stretches to BOOST your Wrist Extension

[@moragmcgill]

Hi Michelle, I 'm recovering from a broken wrist and really appreciate your work. I love your tone of voice, the rhythm, the clarity of the instructions, the way you keep it friendly but not too chatty and the implicit encouragement when you talk about "starting points" and thus help us feel we are going to progress. Great exercises well explained in a helpful progression. thanks

[@Santiago24garcia]

Hello Michelle, I'm recovering from a broken wrist and elbow and have been following some of your videos, thank your for your explanation, kindness. Looking forward to keep learning from you, greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

[@rainu10]

Hi Michelle, Thank you for your proper guidance with these exercises. I am recovering from a wrist surgery and your videos are very helpful and easy to follow. I have been going for hand therapy paying hundreds of dollars for each visit at my Ortho's practice and frankly they don't pay as much attention to their patients during the exercises to correct any wrong movements as you explain in details. Thank you so much for guiding so many people who truly need your help.

[@Carol-pk1xt]

Hi Michelle: I am 4 weeks out of my cast for a broken wrist. I have been doing your exercises daily and now progressing to the more difficult exercises. You have been the best Physio Therapist. My wrist is recovering quickly. I still have two very swollen fingers and now following your videos to get them feeling better and looking forward to being able to make a fist hopefully soon. Thanks for all you do!

[@cecileamyotte3402]

Hi Michelle, I’ve been going to physio for a few weeks, but I find your exercises more helpful. I’m so happy I found you on you tube. So appreciate your expertise and deliver very style. THANKS

[@BadBill058]

Like others who have commented, I am recovering from a broken wrist with surgery. I really like your approach. It seems to encourage stretching more in line with Yoga or other formal stretching practice. Also, for what it is worth, my doctor's "handout" on the subject encourages a "fishtail" exercise that goes back and forth from flexion to extension immediately with no pause in between. With no disrespect intended to my fine surgeon, I like your approach much better, especially on the extension aspect. Thank you!

[@shireenchakravarty1347]

Hi Michelle, your videos have been amazingly helpful and reassuring. I broke both bones in my right wrist, had surgery and now it's been 3 weeks out of my cast (6weeks in cast). Every time I follow your videos (many different ones) am filled with hope about getting back my wrist movement. Many many thanks for these

[@jviner6844]

Hi Michelle ,recovering from a Colle's fracture and have found your videos really helpful .Thank you .

[@Jntte]

Hi Michelle! I echo Morag Mcgill's words below. Me too, I am recovering from a broken wrist. I'm on day two after getting the cast off and your therapy is doing wonders already. My wrist mobility is pretty limited, so I'm following your wrist pronation, supination, flexion and extension stretches and I am already seeing big progress! Thanks so much for professional and warm care. It feels rather close than virtual ;)

[@rockrand9879]

Great info Michelle. You are awesome. I have been going to physical therapy and quite honestly what you do is above and beyond what the PT goes through with me. Thanks!

[@VirtualHandCare]

Wow thanks!

[@JulieJoy-r2o]

Doing well in my recovery but wrist extension is definitely where I have the most loss in range of motion. So this video is exactly what I needed. The first exercise is my favorite as it gets me a deeper stretch than anything else I’ve tried. Look forward to progressing to the last two exercises once I’m a little further along in my recovery. Thanks so much!

[@VirtualHandCare]

Glad the exercises are helping!

[@debbysinclair9392]

Hi Michelle. Thank you so much for sharing your excellent videos. They are amazing. I fractured my wrist in 6 places and had a plate and six screws fitted. You are helping my recovery and I’m so very grateful. I’ve still a way to go yet and I’m practicing all your exercises. Thank you! Golden

[@pamdroste3938]

Excellent exercises as I recover from a broken scafoid. Thank you!

[@SirenaJones]

I’m just so happy that she explained the difference between wrist flexion and extension. I do kungfu and hav been trying to find info on this for couple years on and off but everything on YT is always just about wrist strength or injuries but never specifically extension! Thank you so much!!! 💛

[@janicebellino460]

Hi Michelle all of the exercisers were great ,I fractured my wrist and find these to be very helpful thank you I will continue to watch🥰👌

[@ellapresley8634]

Hi Michelle, I'm so glad I found your website. I have a problem with my right thumb joint. It's painful to bend, but since I've been following your exercises, it's so much better, THANK YOU!!

[@VirtualHandCare]

You are so welcome! I am so glad it is helping!

[@wufrank6781]

Thank you so much for all your work, especially these these help me getting my wrist/hand/fingers back to normal day by day!

[@janetmorris4779]

Thank you! I broke my fifth metacarpal and it was a splint for four weeks. I did your exercises for a boxer’s fracture and when I went to the doctor for last appointment after removing the splint and he told me I was “ahead of schedule.” I attribute it to you.

[@annitafonken5498]

Good help thanks I didn't do last exercise yet. Recovering from radial wrist fracture. I've been out of my cast for 2weeks+

[@melaniehutt5212]

Hi Michelle: These videos as truly helpful. My broken wrist, now out of the cast and stiff, is happy to have these instructions to return to normalcy. We thank you again.

[@sab-ik6wv]

Hello Michelle, I definitely agree with all the other comments. I fractured and dislocated my wrist. I actually told my PT that I was watching all your videos because you really know how to motivate me to do my exercises 3 times a day 😊 Thank you so much for helping me through my healing ❤ I wish that you did feet because also fractured my ankle .

[@VirtualHandCare]

You are welcome! I appreciate you telling your PT and thankful I can even support you through video!

[@abdikarimahmed628]

Thank you Michelle for your effective wrist exercises

[@herisho123]

Hi Michelle, your videos have helped me a lot to recover from a wrist injury, due to Christmas skiing. Thank you for having such great content :]

[@sandrafernandes8031]

hi Michelle glad watching your videos.has lots of benefits.in the morning my hand gets swollen.i had a fracture.pkaster is removed. please help me regarding swelling on the wrist.

[@gitapatel2256]

Hi Michelle I have had a wrist surgery and your videos are brilliant and really helps me . Thankyou

[@evangelinewilliams1379]

Thank you Michelle for your guidance and helpful advice. I'm recovering from a wrist fracture and proximal humerus fracture. May God bless you

[@EliCurran-g6k]

Very helpful as I have been unable to secure physical therapy for a couple of weeks so I’m trying to do some exercises in the interim to keep things moving and gain some more mobility thank you

[@EzraHodges]

Not a person who responds to videos, but this is the exception here. I had a brachial plexus malfunction after shoulder surgery about 5/6 months ago. 3 months with a flaccid arm/hand and the wrong type of sling. Once the nerves and muscles started working a bit it was discovered the arm and hand were in a hot mess. Working patiently hard getting strength and range of motion back to as close to normal as possible. Wrist extension and forearm pronation are two of the challenges I am working on now. These suggestions are great and you explained the issue I have with the proximal row which I had no idea about. You also helped me figure out why sometimes when I stretch the wrist I get a slight pain in the back of the metacarpals. I do a similar thing as the kneeling demonstration except I am standing over a counter; has been working great too. The forearm pronation video was great too. Thinking my issue(s) with the forearm and getting my arm straight may be related. My goal is to be able to do at least one push-up in a month. Need some good wrist extension

[@MerylDavis-xz4pn]

Exercises are very effective. Instructions are easy to follow❤❤❤❤

[@angelagale9317]

Hi Michelle just found your utube video so glad I did. I have come out of plaster today no physio available (apparently it's a luxury) 😑for don't know how long, I was just given a website address for some exercises which was useless. Thank you for your really helpful and easy to understand exercises, it's my right hand I have to get full mobility back.

[@tina8796]

the wall stretch helped me sooooooooooooooo much

[@lisafanning2877]

I am rehabbing a broken wrist. You videos have helped me a great deal.

[@AmrikSingh-st4vo]

Beautifully designed set of exercises. I m sure its going to help to a great extent.

[@MelodeeWhitt]

Thank you for these videos. I am 8 weeks out of wrist surgery. I'm doing the flexion, supination, and this - extension for at home PT. They are wonderful and am seeing great progress. my goal is to resume my weight lifting workouts which includes push ups! Any suggestions of videos you have created to help with this would be awesome. I'm going to check out your writs and formearm stretches today. Thank you

[@hershalchristophernovis4276]

Super wrist exercises.Brings an immense amt. of relief. Could you please demonstrate some exercise for shoulder and neck pain. I suffer from ostheo arthritis.

[@louiserobbins-ferreira7693]

These are incredibly helpful. Thank you so much.

[@arabaatta185]

Hi Michelle I had two fractures in my right wrist and I have been doing this exercises.Thank u sooo much for your good work as it has been helpful

[@josut6]

Michelle, very helpful excersices. Thanks a lot!

[@VirtualHandCare]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nuruddinmedi2113]

Really very very helpful Exercieses thanks alot for sharing your excellent videos

[@patriciayoung6202]

Hi Michelle, I had a wrist facture in April and have been using all your exercises and have found them extremely helpful. I thank you so much for your clear explanations. My question is how many different types of stretches would you advise doing in one session or would you recommend that I do different ones at different times during the day.

[@VirtualHandCare]

So sorry I am just now seeing your comment. It can be helpful to do 2-3 stretches in one session of different body parts such as fingers, thumb, wrist and forearm, then repeat that again several times a day. However I don't usually like to do too many of the same stretches for the same body part and motion, such as too many wrist extension exercises. Hope that helps!

[@roseobm6295]

Very helpful exercises! Thanks a lot!

[@ashajyothi5263]

Really very helpful , thank you madam

[@sunitadhawan2919]

Good exercises.... feeling much better

[@VirtualHandCare]

Great to hear!

[@margaretfrothingham9127]

Both of my wrists were broken. I really find your videos helpful. Was looking for more than PT.

[@asiy2283]

Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@JIBQASIM]

Hi Michelle, these are really helpful videos for rehab. I got my left hand's scaphoid surgery done recently and, due to plaster for a long time, now my wrist movement is very restricted. To recover, I need both Wrist Flexion and Wrist Extension exercises. Can you please advise the sequence and gap between both type of exercises?

[@abdimahdi8713]

Hi I started this morning it’s helping me thank you for your sharing and your time also.

[@caroladamson5294]

Brilliant in broke my wrist n just want 2 go gym had no help from hospital godbless you michelle ❤

[@lissetteguzman5505]

Hi Michelle i am having a little difficulty doing the wrist exercises because it still hurts. But I will keep doing it until there is no pain. Thank you

[@darkker175]

Hi Michelle. Do u mind release a video to treat scapholune ligament repair exercises?

[@susansalvo9496]

Thank you for your exercise program.

[@VirtualHandCare]

Welcome 😊

[@rhondamoore12]

Thank you so much because I feel better about my little finger recovery! My sutures are being removed today.

[@analongoalonso]

THANK YOU!

[@lalavezirova9540]

I saw these exercises in your previous video. And started doing them. Out of the cast for 2 days now,and now I can touch my pinky with my thumb,do supination and a little pronation. Do the fist. 🙏

[@Kryptonixful]

very simple and smooth exercices. Thank you

[@Dani-mj2lh]

Hey Michelle I just put on deodorant with my healing broken humerus after doing this video. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I lost my insurance then I lost my job due to my disability and I cannot afford PT. You are a God send🙏🏽

[@arusakhan9312]

Very effective thanks 🙏🏻

[@RadhaKrishnan-ex9qm]

Nice video.i am need exercise for Stoke patients . Exercise for fingers.

[@kalpataru1]

Very informative exercise video. Love and respect feom India 🙏

[@markdtatham]

Hi Michelle, thanks for your videos. A gust of wind adjusted the flight path of my paraglider and when I corrected a pole was in front of me and I smashed into it breaking my hand in three places. I was immobilized for 7 weeks and my fingers and wrist have very inadequate range of motion. I am working through your videos to get my hand back. Thanks for your effort.

[@VirtualHandCare]

Wow!! What a way to get an injury! Please reach out to me by email- [e-mail]. Would love to help!

[@AhYesIndeedItsFunTime]

Your techniques and exercises are more effective than my OT on the East Coast. It's kind of wild how different her approach is, wish she had your training. Thanks Michelle!

[@nikkiswenson54]

You help me sooooo much! ❤

[@carolt7872]

I'm a week post surgery with a plate and 9 screws. Are these good exercises for me to do now? My Dr only prescribed home exercises with archaic hand drawn exercises which aren't as easy to follow as your videos. I've been doing the other ones after cast removal and those are great. Thank you so much for these 😀

[@bry8636]

Thanks. The carpal strap stretch is new to me and was helpful. My carpals are very tight s/p distal radial orif. Best available evidence to reduce tissue creep (ability of collagen and elastin to recoil) is a 30 to 60” hold. Long prolonged stretches are good. But the most benefit per unit time is between 30 and 60”. Not to say that repeated motions and short holds in end range aren’t helpful. It is helpful to go through that available range. But for maximum stretch, 30-60” have the best outcomes both short and long term. I do a few 60” slow and gradual stretches initially. After that, I am able to reach my end range more quickly and I switch to 30”. Some evidence suggests that icing immediately after stretching will further help reduce tissue creep. I stretch until I can no longer reach anymore substantial range, then immediately ice afterwards. Gel packs don’t get cold enough and they don’t stay cold for nearly the requisite 15’ required to have any effect. I use 1 part alcohol to 6-7 parts of water to make a ‘slush pack that’ will conform to the wrist. Ratio changes based on your freezer temp. Too slushy, add water. Too rigid, add alcohol. I use ziplock brand quart size freezer bags and double them up. They don’t last indefinitely but they’re cheap. And they get and stay cold for multiple uses. The goal of icing is blood vessel constriction to reduce inflammation (and now diminish tissue creep-unrelated to blood vessel constriction). Gel ‘ice’ packs produce very little vessel constriction relative to something like an ice cup, or the aforementioned alcohol packs. Gel packs are genuinely almost worthless. I wish someone would come up with a wrist flexor passive stretching device. Something I could wear for prolonged durations. I’ve looked on DME catalogues to Amazon and have found nothing. If you could find a way to make such a device that could simultaneously distract the wrist joint and stretch, it would probably be more effective as well as more comfortable. When my OT distracts my wrist, I get easily 5 more degrees of ext. It’s also less painful. Granted, that would be difficult to design. But short of that, if you could design a device that passively stretched the wrist, even w/o distraction, I think you’d be on to something. I don’t need to tell you how impactful it is on ADLs and IADLs to lack full wrist extension. It’s so aggravating. I would buy one. It’s good for us less than compliant and lazy Pts. Thanks again.

[@fullclip_nz]

hey michelle, broke my wrist many months ago and thought i had fully recovered until i attempted to do push ups this week and found that the tension in my wrist extension was far too limited/tight. Will keep trying your stretches especially the last one to help mobility, day1 today, keep you posted, many thanks for the video :)

[@akramlaskar3508]

Any update?

[@Nor_berg]

Thank you. It helped me a lot ❤

[@Angelo-z2i]

Gonna do these after my piano practice sessions.

[@deepthicheemalamarri4178]

Thank you 😊 i follow couple of your videos relates to wrist . they are really helpful...

[@dinatodorova4593]

Hello, you have been very helpful. Now my MD recommended occupational therapy...what is the difference between pt and ot?

[@paarth26]

Hi Michelle - I recently had a distal radius fracture. Just got out of my cast three days ago. The wrist area feels like cement just like you described in the video and extension feels extremely tough. Should I just stick to exercise 1-3 for the first few weeks? Does applying ice pack or heating pad? Also help in between these exercises.

[@MichelleRuiz-t4j]

Can we do the first one while sitting on a chair too? I want to help patients for the wrist but we dont have tables for exercises unfortunately but I love the first one!!

[@lyndithompson9562]

Thank you so much for your beautiful videos, I'm trying them but my wrists hurts so much and cont close my fingers. I broke my elbow and my wrists and the pain is so sore a lot been in plaster for 3 months. The dr took it off and told my I will never be able to use my arm but I can't except that I have to use my right hand. Please help me to be able to use my hands thank you so much..I did not have the money for the surgery of my elbow and the dr said that OK but you will have to exercises

[@heididudek6645]

hi I Am So happy I found you ❣️

[@obekhabar1]

Good exercise

[@budgiesparrotsworld628]

You are covering very good topics these days, Please make few videos for open surgery of left leg exercises, I got road accident 6 month before, and my left arm, hand, and left were broken, I need some leg exercises, Thanks

[@tina8796]

Excellent 🏆🏆

[@patrickcleere7635]

I must try these gently as my wrist is very stiff after a radial elbow fracture . Extension is my main issue. Bending my wrist back is stiff. And bending forward also. Thank you.

[@garypritchard9787]

I have not had good wrist extension for many years, my PT says it is just the way I am made. I also use clenched fists to get up from the floor, doing push-up, etc, also.

[@hansamistry1101]

Thank you 🙏 it been very helpful

[@gayatripagatur7458]

I will try Mam Thank u

[@agniveshchoudhary4291]

Thank you😊

[@alexdabhi4621]

Thank you very much 💖

[@haranathsinha8330]

Great work....

[@mukeshjoshi1898]

Hello Michelle, I had wrist fracture 4 months ago, as an eye surgeon , my hands are my life , thanks a lot for wonderful instructions and exercise! I have recovered well . Now I want to go back to my golf, any special exercise? Best : Dr mukesh joshi : Kenya

[@shellyaus]

I have a volar plate on my radius, and can't get anywhere near my normal extension 7 months after surgery, could removing the plate make the difference or does that rarely make a difference from your experience, since surgeons don't like to remove

[@nicholasorgan6930]

With me, I can bend my wrist back relatively well but flexing/extending back has kind of always been difficult for me. Although I’m pretty much able to do all these stretches mildly comfortably but I feel like 3-5 might be better exercises for me, which I’ll continue practicing daily. My left wrist extension is pretty ok but my right one needs a lot of work. I’m glad I found this video though and I hope these stretches help me.

[@TheTammyMcDaniel]

Do you have any advice for scar care? I heard you can massage it, but I don't know what I am doing or why. I had wrist surgery where a plate was added to my wrist bone and have a 3 inch scar down the inside of my wrist.

[@millytorres9777]

Thanks

[@BlueBonnetGirl1]

I am 4 months out from distal radius surgery. I am disappointed that I can't bend my wrist 90 degrees as you do in the videos. I certainly can't do the last exercise. I wish you could make a video for those of us who are struggling and not that advanced.

[@jocelynaraneta5025]

Hello,I like your performance and it helps me a lot.I had a commented fracture of my rt.supracondilar arm and I cannot perfect the no.one exercise of my palm extention .My Lft. Is good.hopefully the daily routine exercise could help me.Thanks! I am having a trigger fingers of my rt.hand this 2 was time and numbness of my fingers as well.what is the cause of this?

[@jacquelinelanoix8548]

Michelle, we need to do both, supination and extension after a wrist fracture. Should we do these different movements at different times of day or can we just relax a little before starting the opposite movement? Thank you!

[@TETECLAIRE]

I started your exercices today march 23, 2024. I will inform you about my progres ;-)) !

[@phoenixfromtheashes2364]

nice videos i want rotation wrist excersices too

[@VirtualHandCare]

I have a video for supination here- Best Forearm Exercises for Supination

[@judyrivait2020]

Great video I will be doing these for sure i broke my wrist in September and I still don't have full extension This will help I was doing it with you All but the floor one Thanks will watch it daily Im sure this will be very helpful since my physio is done

[@VirtualHandCare]

Thank you Judy! Let me know which stretch you find more effective!

[@AmrikSingh-st4vo]

Excellent.

[@_MeMyselfandIam_]

Just got my cast off and your material is a savior! Thank you ❤

[@VirtualHandCare]

Happy to help!

[@leparadisplaylist3888]

thanks a lot ^__^

[@Soundhypno]

Another great video!!!!

[@esaafhaddadin6903]

مفيد جدا شكرا لك

[@Coco-9995]

Wow these exercise really helped; both wrists broken.

[@forouzalavi7339]

Thank you very mouch