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Online Class: Hand Therapy for Computer Users

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Basic Course: $20.00
with Certificate & CEUs: $45.00
This course will take you through a series of exercises designed to strengthen your hands, wrists and fingers, as well as, to promote flexibility and release tension. This is the first in a series of exercises created to help stave off the debilitating effects of common hand problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis in the hand, and tendonitis in the wrist. Each series of exercises is designed to work a specific group of muscles, such as the fingers in Series 1. It doesn't matter what your current age or your current occupation, our hands are our most vital component in our daily lives. Look at how much you depend on your hands throughout any given day. From washing your face in the morning and stirring your first cup of coffee to brushing your teeth and tucking in your children at night. Your depend on your hands for a number of tasks. Isn't it wise to protect your valuable resource and asset now, before problems arise? The exercises in Series 1 can be used as 'warm up' exercises. Every good athlete understands and respects the concept of warm up and limbering exercises before they start their exercise routine. So too, can you use warm up exercises on your fingers, hands and wrists to help keep them limber for the tasks that will face them in their day. You owe it to yourself and to your hands well being to take this course and practice these simple and easy to follow exercises. It only takes minutes a day and can save you $$ and time off due to injury in the future. Our hands were meant to last a lifetime! Enroll today! This is a self-paced, online course. You have 6 months to finish. An instructor will monitor your progress and assess your body of work at course completion. UniversalClass™ offers many wonderful learning tools to help you get the most out of your online course, including an online portfolio service that manages all your course completions. This class has been officially reviewed by our Course Review Committee that scrutinizes course content and instructor participation. This course has received our Committee's highest rating: 4 stars.

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Continuing Education Units (CEU)
1.0 CEUs

Course Description

This course will take you through a series of exercises designed to strengthen your hands, wrists and fingers, as well as, to promote flexibility and release tension. This is the first in a series of exercises created to help stave off the debilitating effects of common hand problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome, arthritis in the hand, and tendonitis in the wrist. Each series of exercises is designed to work a specific group of muscles, such as the fingers in Series 1.

It doesn't matter what your current age or your current occupation, our hands are our most vital component in our daily lives. Look at how much you depend on your hands throughout any given day.

From washing your face in the morning and stirring your first cup of coffee to brushing your teeth and tucking in your children at night. Your depend on your hands for a number of tasks. Isn't it wise to protect your valuable resource and asset now, before problems arise?

The exercises in Series 1 can be used as "warm up" exercises. Every good athlete understands and respects the concept of warm up and limbering exercises before they start their exercise routine. So too, can you use warm up exercises on your fingers, hands and wrists to help keep them limber for the tasks that will face them in their day.

You owe it to yourself and to your hands well being to take this course and practice these simple and easy to follow exercises. It only takes minutes a day and can save you $$ and time off due to injury in the future. Our hands were meant to last a lifetime!


Hand Therapy for Computer Users is a series of exercisers designed for those who spend long hours working at the computer. There are five set of exercises in this course created to help improve the strength and flexibility of your fingers, hands, and wrists. This first in the series is specifically designed for the fingers of the hands. Following series will concentrate on wrist and arm exercises. This first series will list over 40 finger exercises that you can begin to do in only minutes a day while you are waiting for a website to download. It is that fast and it is that simple. These exercises are also great for writers, illustrators, carpenters, surgeons, golfers, musicians, accountants, and more.

It is the goal of this course to instruct students in the prevention of common hand problems through a series of warm up exercises designed for the fingers, hands, and wrists. Additional benefits are: Increased Range of Motion, Increased Strength Improved Flexibility, Improved Dexterity in your hands, Improved Dexterity in your fingers, and Improved lubrication in the joints of the fingers.


This course offers 1.0 CEUs upon successful completion. You may take this online course with or without CEU documentation. An online and hard-copy Certificate of Course Completion displaying your coursework and CEUs earned is included with the CEU Option. We also offer an expedited Transcript Service for sending your accomplishments to a third party.

Course Lessons

  1. Introduction into Hand Therapy for Computer Users - Learn about the common hand problems that may develop over the course of your lifetime and what you can do to help prevent them.
  2. Hand Exercises Set #2 - Enjoy a simple set of exercises to help strengthen and improve flexibility in your fingers and wrists.
  3. Hand Exercises Set #3 - Students can enjoy another set of exercises to help strengthen their hands and fingers.
  4. Hand Exercises Set #4 - Students can enjoy even more Hand exercises designed to stregthen their fingers, hands and wrists.
  5. Hand Exercises Set #5 - This is the last set of exercises for this specific course. More hand exercises will be shared in follow up courses on Universalclass.com
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Additional Information

Course Title : Hand Therapy for Computer Users
CEU Value : (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number : 7747
Course Type : Physical Education
Course URL : http://class.universalclass.com/hand
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Instructor : Francine Milford
Syllabus : View Syllabus
Duration : Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee :
Basic Course: $20.00
with CEUs & Certificate: $45.00
NOT FOR COLLEGE CREDIT
This is a non-credit course. This course may not fulfill any local, state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.
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