Piano Tuning And Ergonomics

[Kristinn Leifsson]

Hi Ed,

I started having yoga lessons.  Mondays, Wednesdays and 
Saturdays.  Starting at 7.30 in the morning.  Also, a friend of mine 
recently graduated as a yoga instructor and is looking for people to take a 
trial course, so I´ll be doing yoga TWICE a day on Mondays.
It´s really great you guys.  You should try it.
I bet a VERY large part of you out there don´t do any kind of exercise and 
wonder why you feel bad and can´t tune pianos with the comfort you could 
when you were 21 (back on pliocene)  <G>

Confess!

Regards,

Kristinn Leifsson,
Reykjavík, Iceland




At 16:50 20.9.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>  PhilBondi.com writes:
>
><< I am unfamiliar with Yoga..I have thought that going
>
>back to my stretching may help this problem without seek more Western
>
>medical advice>>
>
>     Yoga that stretches you by trying to attain poses not only stretches the
>muscles and tendons, but also the nerves that reside in them.  Elasticity of
>the nerves and the fibers around them seems to be a barometer of how much
>numbness I experience.  After a steady week of yoga excercises every day,  I
>have all my problems cured. The hard part is staying with it on a continual
>basis!
>
>
> >>I'll let you know how this turns out..I
>
>honestly feel this is treatable in the near future. >>
>
>   It should be said that carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, RSI etc.  tend
>to be threshold defined problems.  Once the threshold is passed and you have
>an entrapment problem, even after you "cure" it, there is an increased
>susceptibility to it recurring.  As my orthopod told me, "we can fix the
>damage, but if you go back to making cookies exactly the same way, it will
>return".
>    Avoiding the moves that irritate is the first step,  ie. the ergonomics.
>Conditioning the body to accept the abuse without protest is the other half.
>Good luck,
>Ed