Pray Time
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Turn your hands clockwise, with your fingers interacted. Now turn your hands counterclockwise. Repeat this movement 10 times in each direction.
Hocus-Pocus
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Open and stretch out your fingers, separating them with force for 10 seconds. Then, close them and tighten your fingers for another 10 seconds.
The Branch Tester
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Stretch your arms and put your hands out in front of you, turning your wrists with your thumbs outside for 5 seconds. Repeat the movement 2 times.
The Alligator
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Stretch out your left arm, putting the right arm under and grabbing the outside of your left hand. Turn your hands upwards carefully for 5 seconds. Repeat this movement 2 times with each arm.
Shake it - Shake it
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Let your arms hand loose at your side, relax your shoulders, and shake your hands for 10 seconds. Repeat 2 times.
Namaste
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Put your hands together, as if you pray, and push with a bit of pressure (not hard!) for 10 seconds. Repeat this exercise 2 times.
You may also try some exercises with a towel.
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1. Wrist Extension: Relax hand over a rolled towel with palm facing down. Extend wrist up as much as possible and hold for 5-10 seconds, release slowly.
2. Wrist Flexion: Relax hand over a rolled towel with palm facing up. Flex wrist with fingers extended and hold for 5-10 seconds, release slowly.
3. Wrist Deviations: Relax hand over a rolled towel with palm sideways. Lift hand and hold for 5-10 seconds, release slowly.
4. Wrist Pronation & Supination: Pronate (rotate palm down) the hand as much as possible and hold. Reverse direction by supinating (rotate palm up) the hand as much as possible and hold for 5-10 seconds.
5. Finger Flexion & Extension: Flex fingers in by making a strong fist with thumb outside of fingers, squeeze and hold for 5 seconds. Next, extend fingers as much as possible and hold 5 seconds. Repeat up to 10x.
6. Prayer with towel: Press hands together with elbows out and shoulders retracted and depressed and hold for 5-10 seconds.
Repeat each exercise up to 3 times.