- Oh, Bob, my fingers,
a little pain this time of year.
It's getting to be fall, cold.
These are great, great exercises
for pain treatment for your hands.
Easy to do at home, right?
They could be done two or three times a day.
That's right.
- [Speaker] Bob and Brad
the two most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- The first one, very simple.
Quit laughing, this is serious.
- Serious stuff.
- Fingertip to thumb.
So, index finger, the pointer finger...
- Each one.
- Yep, five times.
If you wanna do more, you can.
You should do at least five just to get things moving.
And, also helps that coordination,
that fine dexterity to keep things
the way they should be
with those hands and figures.
- Nice and warmed up.
- Both hands too.
- Alright.
- Alright, the thumb, Bob.
- Thumb only.
- The one that separates us from the other animals.
- Opposition.
- Yep.
So, out like this, do the thumb.
- Bob to pinky?
- Yep, straight out.
- Pacman.
- Right.
- Okay?
I think if you got the little flashlight on it
and you're doing the shadow on the wall,
then you got the dog thing or whatever
when we were kids.
The next one is bring the thumb across in front of the palm.
- Across, right?
The pinky.
- I cannot go near as far as Bob.
- Say hello, pinky.
- So, you can do both hands at once.
Boy, my thumb's limited on both sides.
- Ah, I agree.
- Well, that's the way it is though.
Next one, Bob, thumb abduction.
- Oh, okay.
- So, if you got palm down,
then you bring it down towards the floor.
- Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, you may find these are a little more difficult
and probably more difficult than your fingers,
but do what you can,
get that thumb working.
It's a very important part of your hand.
The next one, gentle fist, straight out,
Bob will show you--
- It's all wrist.
- Yep, circles.
- One direction.
- Yep.
- And, then go with the other direction.
- Five to 10, whatever works good.
You'll probably hear some crackling
and some gravitation we call it.
Mine already cracked.
Now, they're doing good.
Alright, that's good.
- Good.
- The next one is the old fashioned massage.
You can put your palm up on the table,
on your lap,
use your thumb...
- [Both] Or your fingers.
- Yep, and you're gonna work...
- Stroking or circles.
- Yep, whatever works out better.
And, actually, both I like to do.
- Find the tender spots.
- Yep, you need to keep those ligaments, and tendons,
and all those little muscles loose.
This is gonna help circulation,
help stimulate every...
All the movement.
It's just a wonderful thing to do with--
- Good for gamers.
- Gamers, yeah.
So, I don't know if we've got any gamers that are seniors,
but I think it's the--
- Sure they do.
- It's upcoming thing, you know?
- Right, I don't know who.
- Are they really?
- Oh, yeah.
- Yeah, we just have confirmation by the younger crowd.
Do they have senior or master's division?
Alrighty, this next one we call blocking, right?
Yeah, so--
- The Packers need that.
- Yeah, the packers need more than that.
I can tell you that.
So, we're gonna block this joint...
- Right below it.
- Right there.
And, watch.
It's like this little piggy went to the market.
One of those deals.
- Only stiff joints.
- Yeah, if you got a stiff joint there,
you wanna isolate it,
and work it like that,
then maybe go down through--
- I went down below.
- Yep.
- You can even go way down.
- Yep, I'm gonna do it this way so you can see,
get that joint going,
but it is a nice way to isolate those stiff joints,
get that synovial fluid moving,
get 'em loosened up,
and you'll get that...
Everything working together.
You could spend a lot of time doing this blocking
if all your fingers were tight.
- Be fun, right?
- Yeah, well, what else you gonna do?
- That's right.
- Next thing, a little strengthening.
Everything's loosened up.
So, you wanna get a ball, a soft one.
This one's really soft.
It's one of those mushy ones.
- It's real fun.
- And, this one I really like,
'cause it lights up when you shake it.
It's got little tentacles
or pointy things on there,
which actually feel good.
And, you can work that.
- You can even take a towel.
- Yep, roll up a towel.
- Just squeeze it.
- Yep, there you go.
So, you don't have to spend much money.
Get things right in your home and get those hands moving.
Strengthen them up.
My goodness, Bob, this is a wonderful day.
- Yeah, weird.
- Workout.
This is my favorite one.
- It would be.
- And, finally we have something
if you want to actually--
- Adjunct.
- Yep, if what?
- An adjunct.
- Adjunct, yes.
We're gonna have a...
- And junk.
- It's not junky, absolutely not.
It's a hand warmer.
You can get these all over the place.
We do have a Bob and Brad hand warmer
and we put a lot of time
to make sure that these are good quality
and they last,
has three levels of heat,
and you simply, boy, on a cold day,
you're gonna be happy to have it.
- It's good for Minnesota winters.
- Minnesota or Wisconsin.
- Or Wisconsin.
- Right, or Alaska too even.
- It's a good size.
- Yep.
- Three heats.
- Three heat levels.
And, you just plug it in.
- Charger.
- Charge it up, yep.
You don't put batteries in it.
So, just a little...
- I think you could actually charge your phone with this.
- Oh, it works the other direction too.
Yeah, that's a good deal.
One way or another,
Christmas is coming.
You may wanna have one for somebody.
- In the Bob Brad, your stocking
- Yep.
Alright, and the last one is get a little rubber band out,
whatever size you think you need,
put it over your fingernails like so,
and then open 'em up.
Now, if you go too wide, what happens is it pops down.
So, simply put it back where it belongs.
- You can do four at a time if you want.
- Yeah.
- Or, all five.
- This is working some small extension muscles
and intrinsic muscles in the fingers.
It's nice to do this.
- So, what do you think about...
How much?
- Well, you can play your little games,
with your grandchildren or with yourself.
Anyways, seriously, it's a nice little exercise to do.
Keep those hands moving--
- That's it, all seven.
- Yep, all seven.
- You can't go wrong with the number seven.
And, you will improve finger hand dexterity and strength.
- There we go.
- There you go.
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