hey everybody it's Doctor Jo, and today I'm gonna show you some radial nerve
glides. so let's get started.
So these radial nerve glides, sometimes they're called flossing, I'm gonna kind of add in
at the end some stretches. so you can kind of call it what you want. with nerve
glides and nerve flossing, you have to be really really careful about how many you
do. I would say at the most at one time you should really do just about ten. so
if you're following along and doing all of them, I would just do maybe four or
five of each because if you do too many you're really gonna irritate that nerve.
and the ones at the end are gonna kind of flow into actually stretching the
nerve versus just the glides. so the first ones are going to be a little bit
easier, they're more that flossing / glide and then it's going to get a little bit
harder. so the first radial glide that you're gonna do is put your hand just a
little bit behind you and slightly out. you want to take your fingers and keep
them straight and at your wrist just Bend away from you. almost like you're
throwing something behind you, but you're gonna keep it there try and keep your
fingers straight. you're not closing your fist for this one and all you're gonna
do is just look straight ahead and then just kind of push out and in a couple
times. so if you have some nerve pain in there, you might not be able to bend it
as much as me. that's okay just bend it as much as you can keeping your fingers
straight. if you can bend it a little more that's fine and you just push out
until you feel that little bit of that tingly in there or a little bit of
tension in there and that's just kind of gliding that radial nerve there. so again
if you're following along with me, just do three or four because we're gonna do
it in a couple different ways, and I don't want you to irritate that nerve. so the
next one you're gonna do is still kind of get into this position, but now what
you're gonna do is do some head movements with it. so you're going to go
out to the side. but as you go out you're going to start with your hand here and
then you're gonna come over and out and then come back in. so your fingers are
pointing in when you're in, and your fingers are going out in a way as you go
on. so you're just coming in and then going out.
and so again just feeling that little bit of tension. you shouldn't feel a lot,
but getting that nerve gliding or flossing that radial nerve in there. so
just again three or four of those and then taking a break shaking it out if
you need to. so the next one is going to be getting a little bit more tension on
it going a little bit more into a stretch versus a glide even though
you're still gliding that radial nerve. this time you're going to make a fist
with your hand. so as you're coming back into the fist doing this position, you're
going to turn your head away. so you can start with your hand or your fingers
open and turn it going into a fist, and then going away like that, you come back
up. make that fist, turn that head away, come back in. so palm forward, make that
fist, turn that head away, and then come back in. so again if you're feeling a lot
of like those pins and needles tingling and it's not going away as soon as you
stop, that's probably too much and you want to go back to the ones at the
beginning that are a little bit easier. and so the last one is going to be
really more of a stretch and this one is the one you should probably feel the
most, so if the other ones you're already feeling it a lot, you're probably not
ready for this last one. this time you're going to put your hand straight out. so
your arms gonna be at about 90 degrees. it doesn't have to be quite that high
but this is what's going to give it a little bit more of a stretch. make a fist
again, and with your palm downwards. so this time your head, you're gonna side
Bend and turn away, and as you do that you're gonna bring your fist down. so
turn down and away, come back up, down and away. almost like you're looking at
something behind you and then back up. so again, in total you should only do about
ten of these, so if you're going through all of them, just do a couple of each
because you could really irritate that nerve. so if you'd like to help support
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