"Place-And-Hold" Exercises Are

"Place-and-hold" exercises are:

A) A form of dynamic exercises in which the patient actively moves through a series of hand positions to prevent tendon adhesions.
B) Gentle muscle setting (isometric/static) exercises used during the early phase of rehabilitation after, for example, a tendon repair, whereby an involved finger is placed passively in a particular position (by the therapist or by the patient using the sound hand) ; the patient then is asked to try actively to hold the position without assistance.
C) A form of isometric exercise in which the therapist places a finger in a particular position and then asks the patient to hold the position as manual resistance is applied to the contracting muscle.
D) A form of stretching exercise in which a patient is asked to perform an isometric contraction of a muscle-tendon unit against low-intensity resistance followed by relaxation and elongation of that muscle.