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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I've been dealing with the same type of pain for the last 4 years. I went to a neurosurgeon who diagnosed it as "golfer's elbow" and told me to give it a break and stop doing pull-ups. Well I did all that and it is still there. It sometimes feels like someone wacked my funny bone with a ballpin hammer. The only thing that has worked for the pain is narcotics (the legal ones) but then I can't function, so now I'm just living with it. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Have you changed anything e.g the guitar(s) you play? Having got a 12-string I find everything feels different in the fret hand/arm and it could get sore if I played too long. I need to develop a new playing position. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Try Hot/Cold water immersions.
First: soak your elbow in as hot water that you can stand.
Second: after a couple minutes, plunge it into ICE water, then repeat several times.
Finish with a cold soak and then a loose wool wrapping to keep warm. |
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Location: south east Michigan | Let's find the lowest common denominator and go from there.
Ya got two choices...
A) See a doctor
B) Continue to solicite medical advice from a guitar fan-club site.
Choose wisely grasshopper.
p.s.---- I'll tell you from personal experience that the temporary and minor discomfort of a cortizone injection was well worth it. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Ya know Brad,
The only "quackieness" I've ever experienced is from a plugged-in Taylor. Ovations never have "quackiness"....so, what's yer point? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | First - I AM NOT A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL. THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE.
Sorry 'bout that - long story...
Now, I had the same thing, very severe, couldn't pick up anything with my left arm. It spread to my left wrist. Then my right arm (which I had been using exclusively, to compensate) started to hurt. Cortisone would knock it back temporarily, sometimes, but it always came back, quicker each time. Then I went on a low carb diet and it went away. That Christmas the family and I went to visit my parents. We happily declared their house a "diet free zone" and merrily [over] indulged in fudge, pies, eggnog, etc., etc. and the pain came roaring back. I went ahead and cut the carbs back out, while still in the DFZ (much to my tongue's dismay) and the pain subsided. I stayed low-carb for several months after that.
Now this was all years ago and I am certainly no longer eating low carb as a lifestyle. BUT - whenever I start getting a twinge, I cut the carbs 'til it goes away - usually 2 days to a week - YMMV. I would say that in the last 5 years, I've had to do the low carb thing 3 times. |
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| Tim and Wilblee, thanks for the advice. I've had a bad cold for two days so I haven't played and it's not as sore. Hot shower and rest has helped.
Sycamore, I've been working on a series of
4-finger intervals and scales that have been substantially more difficult than basic chord progressions. So, maybe I'm pushing the envelope these days.. |
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Left elbow pain..
