Hand Strengthening Exercises

We perform numerous activities in a single day with the help of our hands, right from eating our food, lifting objects, working on the computer and many more activities. We cannot call these activities as exercises! Hand strengthening exercises are usually recommended for people who need to recover from a surgery or stroke. Not just for such patients, but hand strengthening exercises are also important for people who perform activities that bring continuous strain on their hands like playing guitar or sports like wrestling.





Strengthening of the hands is not meant for people who fall in above categories, they are important for all of us. Even small children require hand strengthening exercises to improve their motor skills. Given below is the list of advantages of hand strengthening exercises.

• Improve mobility of the wrist
• Increase range of motion and dexterity
• Promotes coordination and balance
• Help to prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Prevent damage to the arms
• Aid in recovery

Given below are some of the useful hand strengthening exercises.

Hand Strengthening Exercises for Children

It is necessary that every child learns proper coordination of hand muscles and develop good motor skills. Hand strengthening exercises will ensure proper development of the child. If the child develops fine motor skills, various activities that involve use of hands like, using scissors, tying laces, holding the pencil properly, using locks and keys and many more. Moreover, hand strengthening
exercises are solution to bad handwriting problem. These hand strengthening exercises are fun and your child will surely enjoy while doing them.

Pick the Marbles
You will require handful of marbles or pebbles for this exercise. You can use colorful marbles to make the exercise more interesting to the child. Ask the child to pick up a marble with the help of thumb and a forefinger of one hand. Then the child has to hold the marble in the palm of the same hand. Ask the child to pick up next marble with the previous marble still in hand. Similarly continue picking the marble, until no more marbles can be placed in the palm. Do this exercise for both the hands.

Touch the Tips

This is a very simple hand strengthening exercises where the child has to touch the fingertips. Start with touching the fingertip of thumb with the forefinger, then the middle finger and the thumb, then the ring finger and the thumb and finally the thumb and the little finger. Then repeat in reverse order.

Some more hand strengthening exercises for children can be, balancing tennis ball on the racket, placing small rings in the thumb and removing one by one with help of other fingers and many more. These exercises should be performed at least 4 times in a week.