These instructions are for your right wrist. Switch sides for your left wrist.
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Sit in a chair next to a table. Rest your right forearm on the table. Bend your elbow to approximately 90 degrees. Hang your right wrist off the edge of the table, palm down. Hold a hand weight in your right hand. Your health care provider will tell you what size of hand weight to use.
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Keep your forearm in place and turn your wrist to the right until your thumb is up.
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Slowly turn your wrist and rotate the hand weight back down to the left.
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Repeat
10 times.
Author: Wheeler, Brooke
Online Medical Reviewer: Elizabeth Oswald PT DPT
Online Medical Reviewer: Stacey Wojcik MBA BSN RN
Online Medical Reviewer: Vinita Wadhawan Researcher
Date Last Reviewed: 03/01/2025
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