Patent ID: 7740561

Claim:
A method of exercising the human hand comprising: securing a support over the palm of the hand of a user; engaging a plurality of fingertip engaging members over a plurality of respective fingertips of the hand of the user; each of the fingertip engaging members being secured to one of a plurality of elastic cords at elastic cord first ends; the other ends of the elastic cords being secured to respective base anchorings, at least one of said elastic cords being secured to a fingertip engaging member disposed around the tip of the thumb of the hand being exercised, the tip of said thumb following a path substantially in line with the outstretched thumb, when the tip of the thumb of a user is moved from a first position which said thumb has when the fingers are retracted and the tip of the thumb is over the palm to the position which said thumb has when the fingers of the hand are extended and said elastic cord associated with said thumb is stretched.