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bvince |
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Joined: September 2005 Posts: 3618 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. | ||
sycamore |
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Joined: March 2007 Posts: 698 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. | ||
Tim in Yucaipa |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 2246 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. | ||
Slipkid |
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Joined: September 2003 Posts: 9301 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. | ||
Tim in Yucaipa |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 2246 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: | ||
wilblee |
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Joined: June 2005 Posts: 1320 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. | ||
Steve |
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Joined: July 2002 Posts: 1900 | 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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