Gentle Nerve Glides
Helps a healing nerve move freely and can ease leg symptoms — gentle, never into sharp pain.
What it helps
Helps a healing nerve slide freely, which can ease leg or arm symptoms. Gentle is the rule — never push into sharp pain.
How to do it
- Sit tall in a chair.
- Slowly straighten one knee while flexing your foot up, until you feel a light stretch down the leg.
- Bend the knee back down — move in and out smoothly.
Tips
- Stay in a gentle, pain-free range.
- Stop if it sharply increases leg pain.
Commonly done as 1–2 sets of 10, 1–2 times a day.
Where this appears in recovery
Gentle Nerve Glides is part of 8 recovery programs, typically in the phase 1 and phase 2 stage. Each program shows how it fits alongside the other movements:
- Tarsal Tunnel Release exercise guide
- Tarsal Tunnel Release exercise guide
- Lumbar Microdiscectomy exercise guide
- Lumbar Disc Disease exercise guide
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome exercise guide
- Sciatica (Lumbar Radiculopathy) exercise guide
- Sciatica (Lumbar Radiculopathy) exercise guide
- Cubital Tunnel Syndrome exercise guide
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These are general exercise guides, not a personal prescription. The repetitions and frequency shown are what's commonly used — your own surgeon or therapist may advise something different, and their guidance comes first.