Healing RSI Carpal Tunnel Tendonitis Recovery

Part II Healing RSI Carpal Tunnel and Tendonitis for musicians.

Healing RSI Carpal Tunnel Tendonitis through exercise, doing light weight lifting with your forearms.

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Music

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• Healing
• RSI
• Carpal
• Tunnel
• Tendonitis
• saxaphone
• saxophone
• sax
• jazz
• strain
• injury
• musicians

[G2thesecondpower]

Hello there, I am a guitar player with repetitive stress injuries in both arms, most likely from very intense hours of mountain biking, cleaning fish 3 summers in a row in Alaska, and playing music. My RSI symptoms went a way after a while when I stopped cycling so intensely and stopped playing guitar for a while. However, I've been playing guitar a lot over the last two years and getting really serious about it, and now its back! I'm going to get started with weights and see if it helps...

[ottottojazz]

@G2thesecondpower good luck trying the routine. I have had good results with it. I always recommend trying to do it every day without fail for the best outcome. Good Luck!

[chocoboblue99]

I have wrists tendonitis. At first I only had it on my right hand, but I baby it so much by not letting it do anything for months that it did get weak and I did injured it again. Then, I got tendonitis on my left too by using my left a lot during that time.

I do light weights and stretches and it seems to help some what.

I get little pain here and there but it gets worse if I use my wrists doing anything too long. Typing, writing, cooking, etc. Sometimes I just feel so helpless.

[ottottojazz]

@chocoboblue99 Sorry to hear about your RSI problems. You say that you "do light weights and stretches" ... I'm not a doctor but I would recommend doing the simple routine I've demonstrated in these 4 videos every day for at least 3 months without missing a day.  I believe you'll see dramatic improvements. In my experience increased muscle mass even on a microscopic level, will increase circulation which will allow healing in the area.

[chocoboblue99]

@ottottojazz

Thanks for your reply. I will try to keep it up and do that. I would like to know if you had any experience using rubber bands before to strengthen your fingers before as well?

[ottottojazz]

@Giorgos25957 Just to emphasize - I don't recommend the surgery at all. It took me 3 months to heal enough to begin playing very slowly. The muscles had atrophied in my wrist and hand so I had no strength or circulation. BTW I had one of the best hand surgeons in the US do the operation - Stewart Brown, he did a fantastic job and warned me of the downside of the operation going in. Had I known than what I know now, I would have done this simple free routine and saved myself a ton of grief.

[Giorgos25957]

@ottottojazz

Thank you my friend. I'm on the beginning .It only appeared less than 4 months ago and I'll go for the surgery only if it is absolutely necessary as I'm a classical guitarist. But with the endoscopic method(and not the open surgery I think you had)the tissue should not be such problem.I think the ligament is of paramount importance as it's actually holding the wrist bones and the main palm muscles in place.

How long time you think the ligament took to grow back fully in your case?

[ottottojazz]

@Giorgos25957 I had this operation in 1990. The ligament grows back together wider creating more space in the carpal tunnel. The downside is that scar tissue becomes an issue, restricting motion and causing inflammation. I would NOT recommend you have this operation. I'm not a doctor, but I've dealt with carpal tunnel daily for over 20 years. My recommendation: do the routine I've outlined in these 4 videos every day for 3 months, developed the discipline and commitment needed for recovery.