Patent ID: 7867145

Claim:
A hand exercise device for exercising human hands and thumb and finger digits comprising: a plurality of separate digit sleeves wherein the diameter and length are such that the separate digit sleeves each in the form of a splint slide over individual digits of the human hand; a magnetic element is attached with each separate digit sleeve near a distal end of each separate digit sleeve, wherein a first magnetic element facilitates a desired exercise with multidirectional movements when the first magnetic element is approximated near a second magnetic element; wherein a finger separate digit sleeve has the magnetic element that is a magnet and a thumb separate digit sleeve has at least two magnetic elements that are magnets wherein one of the at least two magnets of the thumb separate digit sleeve is a like polarity as the magnet of the finger separate digit sleeve and the other of the at least two magnetic elements of the thumb separate digit sleeve is an opposite polarity from the magnet of the finger separate digit sleeve wherein the thumb separate digit sleeve may be rotated approximately 180 degrees on the thumb digit such that a repulsive force may be changed to an attractive force and the attractive force may be changed to the repulsive force dependent upon the orientation of the thumb separate digit sleeve with respect to a finger separate digit sleeve.