Resistance Band Wrist Flexion Exercise

Wrist flexion exercises are ideal for strengthening the wrist after fractures and sprains, as well as in treating Golfer Elbow.

Teaching Points

  • Sit down on a chair and fix one end of the band under your foot.  
  • Wrap the other end around your hand and rest the back of your forearm on your thigh.  
  • Keeping the forearm flat on the thigh, curl the wrist towards you.  
  • Slowly return to the starting position.  

Muscles Worked

  • Flexor Carpi Radlialis.
  • Flexor Carpi Ulnaris.  
  • Flexor Digitorum Superficialis.  

Alternative exercises

  • Wrist flexion with a dumbbell.  

Related Injuries

  • Golfers elbow.