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Bring your shoulders all the way up to your ears.

Slide your shoulders as far back as possible, as if trying to touch the shoulder blades together.

Let your shoulders drop back down into a normal position.

Stretch as if you were being pulled by your fingers toward the ceiling; stretch all the way from the tips of your fingers to your spine. Repeat several times.

Shoulder Rotations with Lateral Arm Stretch

Stand in a relaxed manner with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms stretched out to the sides.

Bring your shoulders all the way up to your ears.

Slide your shoulders as far back as possible, as if trying to touch the shoulder blades together.

Let your shoulders drop back down into a normal position.

Stretch as if you wanted to touch the walls on either side of you; stretch all the way from the tips of your fingers to your spine. Repeat several times.

Forearms and Palms Slapping the Organs

Stand in a relaxed manner with your feet shoulder width apart and your arms hanging loosely at your sides.

Twist your spine rhythmically from side to side, letting your arms flop loosely so that your forearms and palms “slap” the organs lightly as they come into contact with your body. Slap your lungs, heart, kidneys, spleen, pancreas, and bladder several times each (fig. 6.18).

Hand and Wrist Stretches

In these exercises, one arm at a time is active. The active side gives the stretch while the passive side receives the treatment exercise. The stretch is given upon exhalation.

Simple Flexion

The active hand lifts up the passive wrist to the level of the sternum, then flexes the wrist by pushing the hand toward the inside of the arm. Repeat several times.

Switch sides.

Fig. 6.18. Forearms and Palms Slapping the Organs

Internal Rotation with Flexion and Abduction of the Wrist

Hold the palm of your passive hand in front of your face. Wrap your active hand around the back of your passive hand, placing your active hand’s thumb between the little finger and the ring finger of the passive hand, and your active hand’s middle and ring fingers around the wrist of the passive hand.

Rotate the passive wrist by pushing the thumb of the active hand (which is between the little finger and the ring finger of the passive hand) toward you, while the middle and ring fingers of the active hand pull the passive wrist in the opposite direction. Repeat several times (fig. 6.19).

Switch sides.

Fig. 6.19. Wrist stretches

External Rotation with Flexion and Adduction of the Wrist

Stand with arms outstretched, palms facing each other.

Turn your passive hand outward, cradling it in your active hand, which should support its weight.

Let the passive side relax, dropping the whole weight of the elbow and shoulder into the cradling active hand.

Use your active hand to flex and stretch the passive wrist by bringing it closer to your sternum. Repeat several times.

Switch sides.

Upward Hyperextension of the Wrist

Extend your passive arm in front of you with your palm facing forward and fingers pointing toward the ceiling.

Place the palm of your active hand against the fingers of the passive hand and pull them gently toward you, hyperextending the passive wrist as the whole weight of the passive arm and shoulder drops (fig. 6.20).

Then use the active hand to lift up all the weight of the passive arm’s wrist, elbow, and shoulder in a stretching movement toward the ceiling. This stretch should be felt all the way from the fingers to the neck. Repeat steps 2 and 3 several times.

Switch sides.

Fig. 6.20. Hyperextending the wrist by pulling upright fingers toward the body

Downward Hyperextension of the Wrist

Stand with the passive hand palm up.

Let your active hand bend the fingers of the passive hand down toward your leg, hyperextending the fingers, hand, wrist, and arm in one motion (fig. 6.21). Repeat several times.

Switch sides.

Fig. 6.21. Hyperextending the wrist by pulling the fingers down toward your leg