Hi Meghan
I do know the feeling. I sleep with my arms bent and sometimes wake up with them hurting. I have also had many students who have similar issues with different causes.
The way to fix it is with countering the movement. This is why locust hurts so much! A way to do it is interlock fingers behind your back and then extend your arms while your rotate them so that your palms face behind you. There are other ways including placing your hand (with or without wrist or forearm) against a wall and then turning away from the wall. Get a good stretch. Even opening up your arms as if you were in full locust will do it.
If your hands are also hurting that first exercise above and variations of that are excellent. Even a good straight arm behind you, palm on the floor, heel of palm in close to spine as in Spinal Twist.
You could do this several times per day.
Let me know if you need more ideas.
Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂
