Web Spaces

Hands: Web Spaces

Laura Brooke: I'm Laura Brooke with the National Center on Early Childhood Health and Wellness, and I'm going to share some strategies focusing on our hands.

Our hands are the forgotten part of our body when we're stretching and thinking about flexibility. And the reason I like to focus on them is because we're using our hands so much more with technology.

Think about how – what your hands do all day long. And what the research has shown is that we've got more arthritis in hands at an earlier age than ever before, and obviously that's related to our use of technology, our texting, our typing, all of that.

So I'm going to show you some simple strategies that you can just do.

You can literally pick your fingers up from your computer and say, "Oh, I'm going to do one of my hand stretches."

So we're going to begin with web spaces.

Bring your hands up and spread your fingers as far apart as you can.

When you think you've got them spread as far as you can, spread them a little more.

Feel that stretch.

You don't want them to hurt.

You want to feel the stretch. Feel it between the fingers.

Feel it on the top of the hands.

Feel it running up the forearms, web spaces.

You can play with web space, or you can just stay still right above your computer.

Or you might take it a little bigger.

Imagine yourself in a bubble.

The web space is just feeling along that iridescent wet bubble.

Up and down web spaces.

Stretching, web spaces.