[pianotech] Leg injury

[Susan Kline]

I'm sorry to hear about this, Rick.

I have a very slightly similar situation, since I have fibromyalgia and
arthritis in my left knee.

One can compensate for a lot of things, but of course activities like 
piano-moving
(as opposed to moving a piano around a stage, which I do) are out of the
question.

I used to stand on my bent left leg so I could reach the right grand pedal,
and raise the dampers while I put in my muting strip. Can't do that 
anymore,
so I just put it in very carefully, standing on two legs.

I use knee pads if I have to go down on the floor to work on pedals. They
help a tremendous amount. By the way, my arthritic knee started because of
tight inner quadriceps, so maybe knee pads might help you also. I use 
some from
a gardening place, with wide velcro straps to keep them on. They just live
in the car.

For tall uprights, I have to stay sitting down as much as I can despite
the fatigue of reaching upwards. Then I'll spend ten or fifteen minutes 
standing,
but take frequent breaks.

And I gave up tuning squares a long time ago, because of the hours of
leaning over.

Keeping the number of tunings a day down till you're sure you're back up
to strength is probably a wise tactic.

I've heard that exercising the GOOD leg has a strange effect, speeding
healing on the injured one. Also that cold treatment helps and reduces
pain.

Good luck.

Susan Kline

richarducci at comcast.net wrote:
> List,
> In 2010 I injured my left leg. Complete tear of quadriceps tendon.
>
> Surgery, eight weeks of complete immobility, and ten weeks pt. 
>
> Given the nature of our business , and the physical requirements , how would you say this type of injury would effect your ability to perform?
>
> Rick Ucci
> Uccipiano.com
> 609-677-0444
>
>   
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