And what you can do about it.

If you use weights or exercise machines where you are gripping weights or handles, you may needlessly be overusing the flexor muscles of the forearm (those muscles which close your fingers).

These tight muscles can pinch on one or more major nerves that enter the hand.

Watch the video:

To loosen up tight forearm muscles: Go to Self treatment techniques for the hand, wrist and forearm.

Another common problem you may have when using weighs, machines, or certain exercises (example: sit-ups, chin-ups, rowing) is tightening your neck muscles.

Keeping your neck relaxed may take concentration. But besides leading to neck pain, this can cause headaches, and (in some cases) pinching of major nerves that go into the hand, causing numbness or tingling in the hands and fingers.

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If you use your hands for just about anything – whether a musical instrument, washing windows, computer use, cutting hair, carpentry, bagging groceries, or whatever – chances are you have tight forearms.

The forearm muscles control most of the movement in the wrist and fingers.

This video shows excellent self-help techniques that will help prevent, relieve and  carpal tunnel syndrome, false carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow (you don’t have to play tennis or golf to get them), and numbness in fingers in hands.

You should FIRST watch the video What you should know about the hands wrist and forearm.

If you want your forearms, hands and fingers to feel normal again, watch this video.

Correction: in the above video when I said that the tight thumb muscles didn’t cause pain, I meant in the rest of the hand.  Tight thumb muscles definitely can cause thumb pain.

Part 2 – comming to the next blog.