Hi Julia, "Been There Done That"! Epicondylitis, although mine is advanced to epicondylosis (not mere inflammation of the elbow tendons, but breakdown of the tissue). Get as much therapy (massage, ultrasound treatment, special exercises) as your insurance plan allows. Appropriate anti-infammatories as necessary. I was prescribed an EpiTrain elbow brace (manuf. Bauerfeind), which helps a great deal. I try to wear it whenever I'm working, at the gym, etc. After 30 years of tuning lefty, I'm doing 80-90% of my tuning right handed. Even with that, doing test blows with my left hand is painful so I usually use Charles Faulk's key striker. ETD, ear plug-filters, sometimes I feel like the Cyborg piano technician! Patrick Draine On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:02 PM, <KeyKat88 at aol.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > Since I injured my arm in August, I have started to use my other > arm on some tuning but not all. > > I've been getting massage therapy and it seems to help, but > sometimes it just comes back even after 3 days of non-use. Anyone have > suggestions for "tennis elbow" releif. > > Thanks > Julia Gottshall > Reading, PA > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20091115/6cd9bfe1/attachment.htm>
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