Cashiers do a lot of picking up and handling items and they do it for hours and hours a day. Sometimes they get pain in their hands and wrists. What can they do to get rid of that pain?
Well, it’s important to know that your fingers have tendons. The tendon is the end of the muscle that attaches to your bones. And your finger tendons attach on your arm waaaay up toward your elbow!
So you are feeling the pain in your hand and wrist. And the muscles in your hand can be over-worked and need attention but guess where the biggest culprits are?
In your lower arms!
Those finger tendons and the muscles in your lower arms are causing the pain around your hands and wrists. What to do?
You can rub, massage or use cold packs on all sides of your lower arms all the way up to your elbows.
If your opposite hand is too tired or painful to use to apply pressure to the other hand, try this:
1. Support one arm on a table top. Use your opposite forearm to provide a pressure massage. Just glide your forearm up and down on all the sides of your forearm that you can reach. You can stop and apply direct pressure to any areas that are the most tender.
You will probably be very surprised at how tight and uncomfortable those finger tendons and arm muscles are when you massage them.
2. Or you can massage your arms with a tennis ball or similar ball. Hold it in one palm with your fingers open and wrist straight and roll it on your opposite arm.
Massaging your lower arms and hands will help the muscles relax.
Stretching your arms and fingers in the opposite direction of your usual position is very good to do, too.
If you notice that you are twisting your wrist as your lift items, make every effort to stop the twisting. That can really aggravate muscles around your wrist.
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