Exercises for your hands and fingers can help prevent arthritis-related deformity and improve the use of your hands by maintaining good integrity and functionality of your hand and finger joints.
Each hand is composed of 27 different bones. These include the eight carpal bones at the bottom of the hand closest to the wrist, the five long metacarpal bones that make up the palm of the hand and connect to the carpal bones, and the remaining 14 phalange bones that make up the fingers. The thumb contains two phalange bones, while each of the rest of the fingers contains three phalange bones