<HTML>In a message dated 8/3/01 5:11:31 PM Central Daylight Time, pdtek@home.com (Dave Bunch) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">tendonitis </BLOCKQUOTE> Believe it or not, this word is spelled, "tendinitis".  The word it refers to is spelled, "tendon" but the condition which refers to painful inflammation of the tendons is spelled in an unusual way.  that's the English language for you, no logic to it at all. The ambidextrous idea is a good one but try as I might, I could never tune left handed.  I beat my tendinitis with Chiropractic and deep tissue massage therapy and by learning to stretch whenever I felt pain or tightness.  It took at least a year to get rid of the symptoms. Now, I have suffered with a torn right shoulder rotator cuff for over a year and will finally get surgery for it soon.  Still, I could not tune any way but right handed.  I just endured the pain and learned how to work around situation which caused me discomfort. The surgeon thinks that if I did as well as I did with the injury, I should be able to recover very quickly and have normal strength and be pain free relatively quickly. Good luck beating your problem. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin</HTML>