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Hey, guys, welcome back.

Today,
I'm going to show you some easy ways

to manage swelling in the hand.

OK, so the first exercise
is going to be a pumping exercise

to begin this exercise for swelling
You want to make sure

that you're elevating your hand
so that your hand is above your elbow.

Your elbow is
just about the level of your shoulder.

So that it can circulate

back to the heart and the heart can pump
everything back out normally.

So make sure that your patient
is not down here,

which is where a lot of people like to be.

Get it up here.

OK. For this exercise,
there are two parts, OK?

There's going to be part
A, which is like A fist

and part
B, which I like to call a starfish. So

part A, bringing the hand up again,
elevated position.

They're going to spread the fingers wide.

They're going to pump into a fist.

And then opening.

This is truly a pumping movement.

There is it's gentle,
but it shouldn't be super gentle.

You know,
like pretend you're squeezing a stressful.

You want to repeat that movement
about ten times

OK? Part B or the starfish,
you're going to spread

the fingers wide as you can
and then squeeze them all together.

Make sure that you're using
all five fingers, including the thumb

and again, pumping.

Not a super gentle movement,
but not really aggressive either.

And again, repeating ten times

Another exercise
that can be really helpful in managing

swelling in your hand
and fingers is retrograde massage.

It's something
that you can do yourself at home

and you can educate your patients
to be able to do it as well.

For all the therapists out there.

So the key with retrograde massage
is that it needs to be really,

really light touch.

Like imagine
that your finger is a butterfly's wing

and you're petting a butterfly swing.

It's a super light touch
it's not going to be very firm at all.

It's not going to feel like a deep
tissue massage.

That's not the point.

The lymph vessels need a very small amount
of pressure

to move lymph fluid or swelling
throughout the body and flesh it out.

So you always want to have your fingers

elevated to start like, let's pretend this
this hand is the swollen one.

So you're going to have your fingers
elevated.

It does usually help
if you use a little bit of lotion

or some kind of cream on your fingers
just to help get the glide.

Your other hand is going to have kind of
like a real gentle pinch or

kind of grasp. Right?

And what you're going to do
is you're going to use that pincer grasp

and you're going to start at the very tip
of the finger close to the fingernail.

You're just stroking down
the sides of the finger, nice and gentle.

Super smooth strokes

right.

Just kind of going down
the sides of the finger.

You can go up front and back again.

Super light touch, putting the butterfly

and just glide in the tissue down.

You're going to do
ten strokes on each finger. OK.

And you just kind of keep going
super light touch.

Not much pressure here.

Just helping
to flush out the swelling of the hand. OK.

So you keep repeating
ten times on each finger.

If it's really hard for you to do

kind of that one hand at a ten, sometimes
I tell people to do kind of like a

like lacing your fingers together.

So again, you're going to kind of use
a real light pressure here and just glide

in the fingers down and sometimes
a little bit easier for some people.

Again, super light pressure.

You're not squeezing them together.

It's just barely touching

and gliding.

The swelling down the hand. OK,

so those are just a couple easy ways

to start getting the swelling in your hand
under control.

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