Thenar Release: Neuroscience Deep Rest Trick “Sometimes, rest is the novelty.” This one’s different. You can do it sitting, lying down or wherever you find stillness (not near water). Take your thumb and index finger and gently pinch into the fleshy pad at the base of your thumb - the thenar eminence. That’s the muscular group formed by the abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, and opponens pollicis. It’s also one of the oldest known therapeutic pressure points in the body - used for

There are three groups of intrinsic hand muscles: thenar group, hypothenar group, and central compartment group. Here we see the three muscles of the thenar eminence group. They are, from superficial to deep, abductor pollicis brevis, flexor pollicis brevis, and opponens pollicis (in alphabetical order: A, F, O 😊). “Pollicis” means thumb. They all move the thumb. Check out my LearnMuscles Continuing Education (LMCE) streaming platform with more than 4,000 videos. #thenar #thenareminence #hand #