Do you have picking arm tendon pain |
Is it from musical activities ? |
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18% |
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From other activities? |
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81% |
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Topic: Tennis elbow question |
Ken Metcalf
From: San Antonio Texas USA
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Posted 26 May 2018 2:23 pm
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How many have experienced right forearm tendon pain?
I suspect mine is from construction related activities.
Doesn't hurt when I play guitar or steel but hurts when I do any work type stuff.
please let me know of your experiences. |
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Stu Schulman
From: Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 27 May 2018 3:22 am
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Ken years ago I had tendonitis in my left forearm it got so bad that I couldn't get change out of my pocket and couldn't use nail clippers.A chiropractor told me that I had to find the adhesions in my forearm and try to breathe up using my right hand fingers...digging in with my good thumb,finally it went away Randy has never returned.Good luck to you. _________________ Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Bill Groner
From: QUAKERTOWN, PA
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Posted 27 May 2018 3:50 am Re: Tennis elbow question
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Ken Metcalf wrote: |
How many have experienced right forearm tendon pain?
I suspect mine is from construction related activities.
Doesn't hurt when I play guitar or steel but hurts when I do any work type stuff.
please let me know of your experiences. |
This could be a plus for you on the "Honey Do List"! However, I'm sure telling the wife it hurts when you work, and then go sit and play for 2 hours straight won't fly for too long! _________________ Currently own, 6 Groner-tone lap steels, one 1953 Alamo Lap steel, Roland Cube, Fender Champion 40 |
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Dave Campbell
From: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 27 May 2018 1:43 pm
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i had this last summer from doing a major home renovation/repair. at the same time, i was also playing a few gigs. i knew i was hurting my arms, but i didn't have much of a choice but to continue. the worst symptom was numbness in my hands when i played, but my arms hurt like hell for a while.
i got a bit of relief from the usual; ice, heat, advil and stretching. one thing that made a huge difference was trying to position myself so that my arms were at waist or chest level when i was working. anything over my shoulders or head put a lot of strain on my arms. sometimes this can't be helped. |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 27 May 2018 2:30 pm
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Just about every construction trade worker / musician I know has experienced finger joint pain and/or numbness, myself included. It makes sense - you work with your hands for 8 hours, and then play your instrument for a couple more with a sore back and tired muscles. I didn’t answer the poll question because my troubles have been concentrated in the fretting/bar hand. |
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Dennis Montgomery
From: Western Washington
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Posted 27 May 2018 2:47 pm
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I've had chronic tendinitis in both arms since the early 90's when I was a computer programmer. The problem comes and goes depending on what I'm doing (or overdoing), but the one thing that's always true is if I ignore it and keep doing the activity that cause the pain, the longer it will take to recover. The key for me is when the pain starts, to immediately stop what I'm doing and wrap my arms in ice packs for 20 or 30 minutes. If I always do that, I can get over a bad flare up in a week, If I ignore the pain and keep typing/playing/landscaping/etc it will take at least a month to fully recover. I have to be especially careful with my right hand technique, if I get too ambitious with wide grips or intense practice without taking enough breaks I pay for it later _________________ Hear my latest album, "Celestial" featuring a combination of Mullen SD12 and Synthesizers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh6b_xXTx4&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz0x-Sxso0NWw493qAouK
Hear my album, "Armistice" featuring Fender 400 on every song:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2Pz_GXhvmjne7lPEtsplyW
Hear my Pedal Steel Only playlist featuring Mullen G2 SD12 on covers like Candyman, Wild Horses, Across the Universe & more...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2f0JOyiXpZyzNrvnJObliA |
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Dick Wood
From: Springtown Texas, USA
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Posted 28 May 2018 5:17 am
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Ken, if you're not already doing so,go to your local Walmart or CVS etc and pick up a band that you position around the forearm just in front of your elbow. It's adjustable and puts pressure on a nerve that will reduce greatly or in some cases stop the transmission of the pain signal. I tried it when I had tendinitis and it helped me very much. _________________ Cops aren't paid much so I steel at night. |
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Stu Schulman
From: Ulster Park New Yawk (deceased)
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Posted 28 May 2018 6:18 am
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I just remembered that I had good results from using a tens unit. _________________ Steeltronics Z-pickup,Desert Rose S-10 4+5,Desert Rose Keyless S-10 3+5... Mullen G2 S-10 3+5,Telonics 206 pickups,Telonics volume pedal.,Blanton SD -10,Emmons GS_10...Zirctone bar,Bill Groner Bar...any amp that isn't broken.Steel Seat.Com seats...Licking paint chips off of Chinese Toys since 1952. |
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Don Kuhn
From: Poetry/Terrell ,Texas, USA
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Posted 28 May 2018 8:03 am
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I use to Bass fish every weeked from daylight till dark and got it in my right elbow and yes it hurt like a big dog. We were leaving for Vegas so I went to my son's sport medicine
Dr. and he gave me a shot of Cortizone. Came home drove to the airport and caught that plane to Vegas. By the time we got there my arm was frozen in an upright position I'm assuming from keeping it that way on the plane. Finally on day 3 I could start using it again but I've never had that problem since. Now if you wanna talk about leg pain I can give you a good run on that one. |
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Bobby Nelson
From: North Carolina, USA
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Posted 29 May 2018 4:07 am
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I had to quit playing the 6-string (which I had been doing since the age of 10 or so, and a good potion of that professionally) about 15 yrs ago, because I lost feeling in my fingertips and couldn't feel where the pic was anymore. I assumed it was diabetic nephropathy. Last year, my doc gave me pills for it and, after 3 moths I stopped taking them because they didn't make a bit of difference. She said,"well then, you don't have nephropathy". She looked at m,y hands, which now have some very pronounced muscle deterioration, and said,"you have a bad case of carpel tunnel - which, I always thought was a wives tale for hypochondriacs. Sent me to a neurologist, and he said "yup. Worst case of carpel tunnel I ever saw". I am going to have surgery on it in December, however, it won't "fix" it completely at this stage, but will keep it from becoming worse.
I am able to play (and learn) PSG because we stick the pics on our fingers. I don't have the benefit of feeling in them, but I get my brain to operate them pretty well. That, accompanied with a fairly extensive knowledge of music theory, a lot of stage experience and a very good ear is how I'm going to have to approach this thing - there's more than one way to skin a cat, as they say.
My advice is, that if you have numbness in your thumb, fore and middle fingers, go have it checked out sooner than later - I also get some pain in my forearms, elbows and palms with this. If they get to it before too much damage to the nerve (Like: don't wait 15 yrs haha), they can almost completely reverse it with simple surgery. |
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Dennis Montgomery
From: Western Washington
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Posted 30 May 2018 7:07 am
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Bobby Nelson wrote: |
My advice is, that if you have numbness in your thumb, fore and middle fingers, go have it checked out sooner than later - I also get some pain in my forearms, elbows and palms with this. If they get to it before too much damage to the nerve (Like: don't wait 15 yrs haha), they can almost completely reverse it with simple surgery. |
I would add that from my experience, surgery should not be an automatic first choice.
A quick background: in addition to tendinitis I also have right ulnar neuropathy (think of it as carpal tunnel across your elbow putting pressure on your 'funny bone' nerve) which causes numbness of the ring and small finger and eventual weakness. I had cubital tunnel release surgery (same concept as a carpal tunnel release). It made no difference in the numbness for a simple reason. The cutting (release) of the tunnel which surrounds the ulnar nerve, introduces scar tissue which in turn puts pressure on the ulnar nerve which causes numbness etc.
Instead of surgery, I'd highly suggest a consultation with an Osteopath (DO) first. After my surgery had healed and was completely unsuccessful, I saw my wife's DO and he fixed the entrapped nerve in about 3 weeks! No drugs, no surgery, just what he called nerve release manipulations.
Every case is different of course, but we like to believe surgery is a magical cure for all ills (I sure did) and it's just not always the best answer _________________ Hear my latest album, "Celestial" featuring a combination of Mullen SD12 and Synthesizers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhh6b_xXTx4&list=PLfXm8aXRTFz0x-Sxso0NWw493qAouK
Hear my album, "Armistice" featuring Fender 400 on every song:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2Pz_GXhvmjne7lPEtsplyW
Hear my Pedal Steel Only playlist featuring Mullen G2 SD12 on covers like Candyman, Wild Horses, Across the Universe & more...
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfXm8aXRTFz2f0JOyiXpZyzNrvnJObliA |
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Bobby Nelson
From: North Carolina, USA
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Posted 30 May 2018 3:23 pm
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Yeah, mine's been going on for 15 yrs at least and has made the muscle in my palm (the one under my thumb) atrophy. I've heard very good things about the surgery. It's not to invasive, except, with the work I do, it could be a 3 month recovery. |
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Tracy Sheehan
From: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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Posted 30 May 2018 5:22 pm elbow pain.
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What Dick Wood said. |
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Fred Treece
From: California, USA
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Posted 30 May 2018 7:42 pm
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What Dennis Montgomery said.
This is such a common problem now, and there are a variety of ways to treat it. Surgery is a last resort option for musculoskeletal disorder. Also, post-op physical and/or occupational therapy is just as important to recovery and prevention of recurrence as the procedure. |
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