How to Avoid Wrist Pain for Good (Top 3 Fixes You Need Today!)

Glenn Dawson shows three fixes for wrist pain: a sleeper stretch for shoulder mobility, controlled extension and flexion stretches using your hips as a lever, and slow supination and pronation rotations to build strength. Stay pain-free and progress gradually.
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How to avoid wrist pain, whether it's typing, pickleball, whatever you're doing. Let's get rid of that wrist pain in this video. I know what you're thinking, Glenn, this is a wrist pain video. We need to work the shoulder joint first. The shoulder joint controls all the rotation. If that's lacking rotation, you're going to feel it in your forearm or in your wrist. So what we're going to do is a sleeper stretch. I'm going to sink my shoulder underneath my body. Bring my elbow up and then go back and forth with this hand going real nice and slow and light. Then we'll move to the wrist. Next, we want to work on wrist extension and flexion. That basically just means making it move this way and make it move this way. The first thing we're going to do is work on the extension. I'm going to point my fingertips towards me and slowly press them to the ground, just like so. I'm using my hips as a lever, so my hips will go back and forth and just create pressure and a stretch in the wrist themselves. Next, we're going to do the exact same movements, but with our wrist like this and create wrist flexion. So you're going to press back and forth, just like so. Now, don't push through pain. If any of these gives you pain, back off. You don't want to do this past your pain limit. You're just trying to open up within your normal range of motion. It'll open up over time. There's no reason to, to just rush it. Now that we've got it flexible, all the areas are stretched out, we need to work on strengthening. So we're going to work on supination and pronation, basically rotating it away and rotating it back in. This will create strength in the forearm and the bicep and the wrist itself. Make sure as you're doing this, you go slow. We're working on slow, controlled movements for this. Don't move it back and forth. We're not trying to recreate that, and that can honestly hurt you if you're not ready for it. So go nice and slow and controlled and strengthen those wrists so you never have to worry about that wrist pain again.
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