Flexor carpi radialis: This muscle flexes and abducts the hand and wrist. It attaches to the second metacarpal. Metacarpals are the five bones in the palm of the hand.

Next, a majority of the muscles in our forearms cross over the carpals via tendons and attach to the metacarpals, serving as the primary movers and dynamic stabilizers of the wrist. 1 These ...

Say bye-bye to wrist pain and hello gains with these smart exercise swaps. ... This can help your wrists as the muscles in the forearms are responsible for wrist flexion and extension.

Jeff Cavaliere of Athlean-X explains how training the brachioradialis muscle, ... as it doesn't extend any action to the wrist like other forearm muscles. ... "The more flexion you get at the ...

For instance, the activation of wrist flexor muscles can be used to close the fingers together to grip a pen. If the wrist extensor muscles are contracted, the fingers re-open and the hand ...

This condition commonly occurs in the flexor muscles of the elbow, wrist, and fingers for adults with conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, or progressive multiple ...