Agreed, stretching and avoiding repetitive stress. I was having wrist problems and attributed it to tuning, but now I think it's overuse of the computer mouse. After switching to left hand mouse use (tricky at first) my right wrist has been doing fine. -Zeno Wood On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Fred Sturm <fssturm at unm.edu> wrote: > On Jun 1, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Michael Magness wrote: > > When I get out of the shower in the AM I roll my towel up, place it under >> my armpit and GENTLY pull my elbow into my ribs, stretching my shoulder >> muscles & tendons out while they are still warm from the shower. >> > > > Yes, I think the key in most cases to avoiding the various muscular > problems that we face is stretching our muscles - consistently, daily as we > get older. I have kept problems at bay by a regimen of all sorts of > stretches. Another key is simply being aware of posture when working, > feeling the effect on the muscles, and correcting to find postures and > techniques that are as relaxed and pain free as possible. And one other > thing that needs to be emphasized is that repetitive stress needs to be > avoided - which means limiting the amount of any given activity, like > tuning. I have found that three a day is sustainable. I did four for years, > and it was problematic. Five I still do occasionally when I have to, but it > takes too high a toll. Same with voicing. > Bottom line, we create our own problems by the way we use our > bodies. We need to take responsibility and look at what we do and how we do > it, so as to remain healthy and reasonably pain free. It is certainly true > that an MD can't address all the problems we cause ourselves, or can only do > so in a limited way (pain pills can be helpful temporarily, but are hardly > something to depend on unless absolutely necessary). We generally create > those swellings that cause nerve pain (like carpal tunnel) by inappropriate > use of our bodies, and the surgical solution is not a very good "cure" - > prevention is far better. > Regards, > Fred Sturm > fssturm at unm.edu > "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100601/2e112ca0/attachment.htm>
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