Customer Reviews for Expand-Your-Hand Bands

Expand-Your-Hand Bands

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Description of Expand-Your-Hand Bands

Relaxing to use and incredibly effective, Expand-Your-Hand Bands are perfect for everyone who uses his or her hands. If you're interested in maximum grip strength and sparkling hand health, our Expand-Your-Hand Bands are the fun, effective way to work your extensors, achieving the sort of muscle balance that will boost your strength and prevent, reduce, or cure the pains associated with arthritis, overuse, abuse, and carpal tunnel syndrome. Color-coded, progress from the easiest up to whatever level of resistance you require: use for warming up, prehab, rehab, or just plain relaxing. Our Expand-Your-Hand Bands are made of a durable latex-free and non-petroleum-based material that is UV and ozone resistant. Get ready to kiss that elbow pain goodbye.

Sports reviews of Expand-Your-Hand Bands

Customer Review: Inexpensive and Effective!
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

These rubber bands are just as effective in therapeutic value as any of the other great products I've purchased, such as the Xtensor, the Cando Digi-Extend Hand Exerciser, the Power Web Hand Exerciser, and the Handmaster Plus. To me, they all work equally great. I've used these devices along with icing my affected areas (elbows - tendonitis, and wrists - carpal tunnel) with ice wraps for 20 minutes, twice daily, and I am experiencing rapid healing and recovery!

Customer Review: Expand-Your-Hand Bands
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

Yeah, they are just rubber bands, but it is nice having the ability to step up in resistance. Also, these are well made. I do not fear them breaking.

Customer Review: an extraordinary product
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

I have been using these bands for several months now and find that my tendency towards tendonitis has sharply diminished.

Customer Review: Nice!
Sport shop rating: 4 Stars

I like these bands. I use these along with the Captains of Crush Hand Gripper - No. 1 and the Gripmaster Exercise Tool, Light, to give my fingers and hands a good workout.

The workout is pretty straight forward. You put the bands around your fingers, place them just under the fingernails and try as many times as you can to expand your fingers outward.

It's a good workout, too. I do the reps until I feel the "burn" in my fingers. I do two sets each hand about twice a week. Now I feel more dexterity with my fingers after using these bands. I'm using the blue bands now (see photos posted). The other bands (except the red ones) are really too weak to give my fingers any real type of workout.

I am not a doctor or hand specialist, but I do feel using these are a good workout. If you are a weight lifter, practicing martial artist, or especially a musician learning/playing a stringed instrument(s), etc., working with these bands will definitely be beneficial to you. I am happy with them so far.

Now while these bands, I feel, do give your fingers a good workout. These are still basically rubber bands. IronMind states these bands are specially treated. Good. I do follow the advice of IronMind in "keeping these bands in a drawer, out of light, and definitely out of direct sunlight -- and also away from heat (so not in the glove box in your car during the summer, etc.)".

But I still have the question in my mind: How long will these bands last?

Update: Monday June 14, 2010

"But I still have the question in my mind: How long will these bands last?"

The bands should last about a year (give or take a few months).

I was using the blue bands (the next strongest after the red bands) about twice a week, keeping them in a drawer when not in use.

Then one day while I was using them, I noticed a small hole developed in one of the bands. I did another stretch and then - Pop! No more band.

I recommend that if you're going to use these bands, use just one (you get 10 bands, five different colors, 1 set of each color) at a time for both hands. You'll get longer use out of them.