25/01/2026
25 HAND EXERCISES FOR STROKE RECOVERY
🔲THERAPEUTIC BALL HAND EXERCISES FOR STROKE RECOVERY
▪️EXERCISE #1: BALL GRIP
Hold the ball tightly in the palm of your hand. Squeeze, hold, and relax. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #2: THUMB EXTEND
Place the ball between your bent thumb and extended two fingers of same hand. Extend and straighten the thumb to roll the ball. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️Exercise #3: Pinch Exercises for Stroke Recovery Survivors & Patients at Home
EXERCISE #3: PINCH
Hold the ball between your thumb, index and middle fingers. Squeeze together, hold, and relax. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #4: OPPOSITION
Place the ball in palm of your hand, bring thumb toward the base of the little finger. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #5: SIDE SQUEEZE
Place the ball between any two fingers. Squeeze the two fingers together, hold, and relax. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #6: EXTEND OUT
Place the ball on a table. Place tips of your fingers on the ball and roll the ball outward on the table. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #7: SCISSOR SPREAD
Wrap putty around two of your fingers and try to spread the fingers apart. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #8: THUMB PRESS
Place putty in the palm of your hand and push into it with your thumb toward the base of your pinky finger. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #9: THUMB EXTENSION
Bend your thumb and loop clay around it. Try to straighten your thumb as if simulating a “thumbs up” gesture. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #10: THUMB PINCH STRENGTHENING
Squeeze the putty between your thumb and side of your index finger. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #11: THUMB ADDUCTION
Keep fingers and thumb straight while pressing the putty between your index finger and thumb. Repeat 10 times for two sets.
▪️EXERCISE #12: THREE JAW CHUCK PINCH
Using your thumb, index, and middle finger, pull putty upwards. Repeat 10 times for t
