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forearm
(redirected from Wrist muscles)

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forearm
the part of the arm from the elbow to the wrist

forearm [′fȯr‚ärm]
(anatomy)
The part of the upper extremity between the wrist and the elbow. Also known as antebrachium.


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Exercises are practical and grouped by body part: The "steering wheel roll" helps with shoulder mobility when stuck in traffic, and the "boring meeting hand stretch" works your wrist muscles and tendons even as your brain goes numb.
It can help condition and warm up the wrist muscles that are essential for most racquet sports and can help people who are otherwise unable to be physically active to exercise upper-body muscles.
They found that the untrained wrist muscles of the four long-distance runners studied maintained force better during prolonged exercise -- involving repeated wrist flexion against a resisting bar -- than did those of five healthy but relatively sedentary sex-matched individuals of comparable age.
 
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