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Range of Motion Exercises
Daily movement keeps your joints flexible, mobile, and pain-free during your recovery with Dr. Andrew Federer.
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The Basics
How ROM Exercises Help You Heal
Active range of motion exercises are movements that help keep you flexible and mobile. They guide each joint through its full range of motion. Moving joints every day helps maintain normal range of motion and improves balance, strength, and reduces pain in the affected area.
Conservative Management
ROM — Distal Radius / Wrist Fracture
This program is intended for patients healing from wrist fractures — whether treated conservatively in a cast or through surgical intervention. It is important to start moving your fingers from Day 1. If movement is difficult, perform Part A followed by Part B. If movement is easy, perform Part B only.
Part A — Assisted Motion
For when motion is difficult or stiff.
- •Use your opposite hand to gently assist each finger through its motion.
- •Move slowly from a fully straight position to a closed fist.
- •Spread your fingers wide, then press them firmly together.
- •Perform 10 repetitions, several times per day.
Part B — Active Motion
For when motion is easier and unassisted.
- •Without help from the opposite hand, actively move each finger.
- •Fully straighten (or hyper-extend) and then close into a complete fist.
- •Abduct (spread) and adduct (press together) the fingers.
- •Perform 10 repetitions, multiple times throughout the day.
Move your fingers through their FULL range of motion — from completely straight (or beyond straight) into a complete fist, and spread the fingers far apart before pressing them together. Stop and call our office if you experience sharp or worsening pain.
Printable Handouts
Download Your Exercise Guide
Take a printable copy of your prescribed range of motion exercises home so you can easily reference each movement throughout your recovery.
Conservative Management ROM — Distal Radius / Wrist Fracture
For patients healing from a wrist fracture, treated conservatively in a cast or through surgical intervention.
Download PDF →Forearm Pronation Supination ROM Exercises
Gentle forearm rotation exercises to restore supination and pronation after injury, surgery, or casting.
Download PDF →Tendon Gliding Exercises — Finger ROM
Hand and finger tendon gliding sequence to improve tendon motion and reduce stiffness.
Download PDF →Tennis/Golfer Elbow — Forearm Stretches
Stretching routine for tennis and golfer's elbow to improve forearm flexibility and reduce pain.
Download PDF →Home Exercises for Tennis and Golfer's Elbow
A home exercise program designed for tennis and golfer's elbow rehabilitation.
Download PDF →Active Wrist Flexion/Extension
Active range of motion exercises for wrist flexion, extension, and radial/ulnar deviation.
Download PDF →Passive Wrist Flexion/Extension
Passive stretching exercises to gently increase wrist flexion and extension range.
Download PDF →Passive Wrist Modified Prayer / Forearm Supination
A passive stretch using a modified prayer position to improve forearm supination and wrist mobility.
Download PDF →Wrist Stretches — Overuse
Stretching guide for overuse-related wrist tightness and discomfort.
Download PDF →Additional ROM handouts for specific procedures will be provided by your care team at your follow-up appointment.
Questions?
We're Here to Guide Your Recovery
If you have any questions about your range of motion exercises — or experience unusual pain, swelling, or loss of motion — please contact our team.
Contact Dr. Federer's Office
Cherry Creek Medical Center · 100 Cook St., Denver, CO 80206