Stretches & Exercises for Gamers - Ask Doctor Jo

As a gamer, you can have many aches, pains, and injuries. These stretches and exercises should help give you relief and get back to gaming. See Doctor Jo’s blog post about this at: http://www.askdoctorjo.com/gamer-stretches-exercises

The first set of exercises will loosen up the muscles, try not to push through pain, just get a slight stretch. You can prop your arm on a table and let your wrist hand off or you can hold it up in the air. Make a fist with your hand with your palm down. At your wrist, bend your wrist up to work the muscles in extension, and then bend it down to stretch the muscles in flexion. Then turn your fist to the side with the thumb toward the ceiling for a radial and ulnar deviation movement going up and down. This will stretch your thumb muscles as well.

Then put your arm straight out in front of you. With your palm down and making a fist, bend your wrist up with overpressure from your other hand. If this is not enough of a stretch, open up your fingers pointing them in the air and do the same stretch. Hold these for 30 seconds, and do three of them.

Now put your arm straight out in front of you. With your palm down, bend your wrist down with overpressure from your other hand. If this is not enough of a stretch, curl your fingers into a fist and do the same stretch. Hold these for 30 seconds, and do three of them.

Next, the exercise is a simple chin tuck. You don’t want to tuck it down to your chest, but take your chin, and pull it backwards. You can put your finger on your chin, as a target or starting point, and then tuck it in. Hold it for about 3-5 seconds, and then relax. Do this about 3-5 times.

For the last stretch, clasp your hands behind you, and push your hands downward and push your chest out. Do each of these 3 times for 30 seconds.

Related Videos:

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Stretches & Exercises:
https://youtu.be/1KRtQppsUHc?list=PLPS8D21t0eO-_SSqmyKDNI-ODAhwWoMy5

De Quervain's Syndrome Stretches, aka Blackberry Thumb:
https://youtu.be/7jeEZUGqDNw?list=PLPS8D21t0eO-_SSqmyKDNI-ODAhwWoMy5

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Stretches & Exercises for Gamers:
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