Sentences with phrase «as wrist extension»

The wrist extensors are a group of nine individual muscles on the back of the forearm that act on the wrist and fingers and help carry out complex movements of the hands such as wrist extension, or moving the top of the hands backward toward the wrists.

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We OTs love getting kids to work on vertical surfaces (think: easel or chalkboard) because of how it forces them to bend their wrists back (called «extension») as they play, something that is critical for good handwriting skills.

The forearm is a very visible muscle group, comprised of many smaller muscles with different functions, such as generating the actions of the hand and fingers, wrist flexion and extension, and much more.

That is to say, if the wrap is covering the joint line, you might be causing dysfunctional movement to happen at the wrist when you go into wrist extension positions, say, as in a handstand.

As you can guess, the flexors are used for flexion at the wrist and fingers and extensors for extension.

Typing while your wrists are in flexion or extension, or letting your wrists rest on the keyboard are setting you up for stress induced injuries, such as wrist pain or carpal tunnel.

In many ways Android Wear works as an extension of your phone by pushing alerts, messages and application notifications direct to your wrist.