rogeliocan -> Share you guitar related injuries and cure (Nov. 14 2012 18:46:08)
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I think it might be useful to share guitar related injuries we have had and how we cured them. Reason is, I have had 2, the first of which I wasted over 6 months without resolution because no one had a clue of what I had, it may have helped to have the experience of someone else who had it, at least it would have been a lead. In the end this 1st pain got resolved in 1 treatment! So here goes. I have had 2 guitar related 'injuries'. 1st one, my right forearm was causing a lot of discomfort. After much money spent with different physios, chiros, and even 2 months without playing guitar to try to let it heal by itself, I finally got it resolved in one (yes one!) session with a chiro that did ART (Active Release Technique). He had seen the same thing with a violinist before. My problem was a nerve that was trapped/stuck between muscle tissue. With one session (5 minutes) using proper manipulation it was gone. 2nd injury. I am still fighting with this one. During one year and a half I woke up every 2 hour because of shooting pain in my left hip area and thigh, I also felt it in my inner-front thigh going up stairs. I never felt the shooting except at night, starting about 4 hours after I got to bed. This pain is now 99% gone now and I no long wake up at night. What remains is lower back discomfort. What got rid of my hip and leg shooting pains was again ART and massages on the lower back muscles and all muscles-to-bone attachment points around the hips, leg-to-hip socket, and SI joint. The majority of these were inflamed and it took about 2 months to clear all of that. So, tight muscle, squeeze the nerves and eventually cause pain elsewhere. So now I'm left with finishing up the lower back part, that is work in progress. For some reason, the muscles in the area of my lower spine work overtime and are always really tight (So tight that I use a baseball to massage them, yes it hurts). I am now getting short massages twice a week to focus on that area to try and break up those 'knots' (that have been there for at least 3 years). One more thing I would like to share. For the past year I have been waking up in the morning feeling like a 70 year old (not that I know what it feels like) but my back was stiff and I had to stretch before getting up and it eventually felt better as I warmed up. That back discomfort actually prevented me from sleeping in in the morning, feeling discomfort and having to turn, stretch and move my back. To my amazement, my chiro fixed this instantaneously. She put some tape (Kinesio tape) on my back. She had me sit and bend backward and applied the tape from above waist to mid back. With this on, every time I slouched, I could feel the tape pulling so I stood up straight again. Well, not kidding, the next morning my back felt great and did not have this 70 year old feeling, that is wild since I have felt this for a while. So this pain was just caused by bad posture and over stretching my back muscles from too much slouching. Too me, this one is worth gold! Not having that sore back feeling in the morning. Bottom line. All my problems were related to muscles trapping nerves, and all fixed with ART/massage.
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