MELT Method: Hand/Finger/Elbow (& foot!) therpay you've never heard of…

Over the last year I have struggled with a tendon strain on my middle finger. Resting only proved re-injury. I was already doing yoga, thera-cane and Arm-Aid and had hit a plateau in my recovery. But after just a few months of using MELT Method a few nights a week (combined with the above mentioned stuff) and gentle, open-handed hang board work, my finger feels amazing! I'm back to crimping and back to knocking on the door of 5.12. Thought the community should know, in case it could help anyone else, so I wrote an article about it.

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Wow! I was just about to start a thread about MELT stuff. My sister in law just became an instructor and recently showed us the hand and foot stuff.

It does help my feet, which are shattered from decades of climbing. The hands maybe not so much, but I'll try anyway.

i figure it's easy to learn, quick and cheap..if it helps at all, then great

That's cool John! I'm finding the MELT hand treatment needs to be mixed with lying on a roller and stretching both arms out from the midline with extended palms, like stop signs. Then keeping palms flexed I do both internal and external rotation, going slow and really spreading out through fingers. Then I turn fingers towards wrists, palms down and do the same thing. That reaching from the center of the chest out into the hands makes a huge difference but I have to stay on top of it, like 3x times a week minimum!