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Today’s Scribble Kibble episode is all about
how to stretch to avoid long term and short

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term art injuries.

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If you’re an artist or animator, you spend
hours every day doing small, repetitive motions

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with your hands.

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Over time, that constant repetition can damage
the nerves and tendons in your hands and arms,

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leading to problems like Tendonitis, Carpal
Tunnel, and Arthritis.

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If you already have one of these art injuries,
one or more of these stretches will be painful.

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That’s okay.

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Be slow and gentle but try to stretch enough
that you feel the stretch.

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The idea is to stretch the injured area so
it can relax.

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In general though, you shouldn’t feel pain
while you’re stretching.

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If you feel pain, you’re pushing too far
on that stretch and you should loosen up a

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little bit.

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For extreme pain, or pain that gets worse
over time once you start a daily stretch routine,

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stop stretching and see a doctor.

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In this video I’m not going to hold all
the stretches for as long as you should.

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You should hold them for maybe about 10 seconds.

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I have a separate video with just a stretch
routine you can use to follow along if you

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want to do it in real time.

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Get in the habit of doing this at least once
a day before you start working.

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Hold arms out.

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Face palms upwards.

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Try to pull your palms back as far 
as you can.

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Keep arms out.

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Make regular fists.

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Thumbs over your fingers.

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Keep arms out.

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Point fists down so you feel a stretch.

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Hold out arms straight.

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Keep your shoulders relaxed.

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Tuck your thumbs in and grasp them with your
fingers.

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Now turn your fists down until you feel the
stretch along here.

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Hold.

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Hold out arm, bend in hand, bend in fingers,
push curved hand in toward arm.

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You’ll feel the stretch here.

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Press hand upside down on wall, keeping your
arm straight.

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If you like, you can reach around with the
other hand and pull the thumb up.

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Finish up with finger stretches.

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Stretch out your arm all the way, angled a
bit toward the floor.

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Slowly pull your index finger up as far as
it can go without causing pain.

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Hold for a few seconds.

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Now try to wiggle the free fingers.

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Be slow because if your joints aren’t very
loose the wiggling could hurt.

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Relax.

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Shake it out.

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Repeat with 

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the rest of the fingers.

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Pull fingers down one at a time.

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If you’re like me you may not feel this
one as much.

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Hold.

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Wiggle free fingers.

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Relax.

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Shake it out.

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Repeat with the rest of the fingers.

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Pull thumb back.

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Wiggle fingers.

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Pull thumb in.

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Wiggle fingers.

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Spread the spaces between fingers with your
other hand.

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You don’t need to hold these ones very long,
just a second or two.

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To finish, spread your fingers 
as far as you can.

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Hold it.

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Relax.

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One more time.

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These stretches, especially for your wrists
and fingers, are very important for having

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pain-free hands throughout your art career.

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The stretches also work for musicians and
gamers and pretty much anybody who works with

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their hands a lot.

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All of this is a bit much to memorize the
first time around, so I have a separate video

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with just the stretch routine if you’d like
to follow along with that.