Quadruped Wrist Circles

QUADRUPED WRIST CIRCLES

The quadruped wrist circles exercise is used to warm up the wrists and to improve joint mobility. Start by going on your palms and knees, and rotate your wrists so that the fingers point inwards. Circulate the body on the wrists in a clockwise and counter clockwise motion to mobilize the wrists.

Structures involved:

• Wrist joints

• Common wrist flexors

  • flexor carpi radialis

  • flexor carpi ulnaris

  • palmaris longus

  • flexor digitorum superficialis

Related Conditions:

• Wrist Impingement

• TFCC Tear

• golfer’s elbow

• carpal tunnel syndrome

• pronator teres syndrome

• cubital tunnel syndrome

• median nerve peripheral nerve entrapment

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