Finger rheumatoid exercise method

Rheumatoid disease often occurs in our lives and is a type of joint bone disease. This disease problem is particularly prone to middle-aged and elderly people, and this disease will affect people's normal life. The symptoms include easy deformation of the finger joints and constant pain in rainy weather. Rheumatoid disease in the fingers requires regular exercise. If it is not treated in time, it can easily cause serious diseases. But what are the exercise methods for rheumatoid arthritis in the fingers?

Generally speaking, after treatment and improvement of acute symptoms in active rheumatoid arthritis patients, they can perform different degrees of joint functional exercises if the patients can tolerate them, but they must adapt to their physical conditions.

If the patient has difficulty walking, he can do some related hand exercises in bed, such as pinching walnuts to exercise the function of finger joints; holding and rotating both hands to exercise the function of wrist joints, etc. This is an important measure to maintain and restore joint function.

Action 1: Swing your hands up and down

Place your arms flat on the table, palms facing down

Step 1: Use your wrist as a fulcrum and raise your hand upwards, similar to the posture of greeting someone, and try to swing as far as possible.

Step 2: With the wrist joint as the fulcrum, gradually lower your hand and lower it below the wrist joint plane. You will feel your forearm being pulled forward.

Step 3: Hold for 6 seconds and relax

Action 2: Waving your hands left and right

Support your elbows on the table with the back of your hands facing you.

Step 1: Use the wrist joint as a fulcrum and bend your hand toward your little finger.

Step 2: Use the wrist joint as a fulcrum and tilt your hand toward the thumb, as if shaking your hand.

Action 3: Point fingers one by one

Step 1: Touch your thumb with your index finger

Step 2: Touch your thumb with your middle finger

Step 3: Touch your thumb with your middle and ring fingers

Step 4: Touch your thumb with your pinky finger

Action 4: Make a flat fist

Step 1: Bend your five fingers and make a fist

Step 2: Release your five fingers and stretch them as straight as possible

In addition, you can soak your hands in warm water for 10 to 15 minutes when washing your face in the morning, and use the other hand to knead the joints, which can effectively relieve morning stiffness; if you have time, you can do it again before going to bed at night; patients with swollen and painful feet can take a foot bath in the same way every night.

Finally, I recommend that you buy two elastic grip balls and exercise with them regularly to effectively increase hand strength, but be careful not to overdo it.