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Offline pianokid16

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How to treat tendonitis?
on: April 03, 2007, 02:24:07 AM
I got a case of tendonitis in my right  wrist, forearm, and hand from working out and its affecting playing negatively. do you guys know how to treat tendonitis? anyone ever get this condition?  hope you guys have suggestions on how to treat it and stuff.

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Offline danny elfboy

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Re: How to treat tendonitis?
Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 05:09:21 AM
I got a case of tendonitis in my right  wrist, forearm, and hand from working out and its affecting playing negatively. do you guys know how to treat tendonitis? anyone ever get this condition?  hope you guys have suggestions on how to treat it and stuff.

Thanks


Tendons are self sealing so tendonitis heal by itself except that it doesn't if you keep using motions that are detrimental to the tendons
Topical don't help much with the healing phase they just reduce the pain and anti-inflammatories do worse than good that's because the inflamattion is accumulation more blood flow which is required for the healing and the problem with tendons is that they get little blood flow so they heal slowly

Reasons you get tendonitis when you work out are: accumulation of tension, deviation of the ulna and static wrist motions. Take frequent rests and during these rests check your body, ask yourself if you can feel any unecessary tension or if you're contracting without a reason, if your bones and skeletal are aligned and if you're in a comfortable position ... and consciously release all the tension, remember to take your wrist loose and to stop as soon as you feel accumulation of tension (in lifting, throwing, hitting .. whatever motion)

Accumulation of tension is easy to detect.
Your muscles should have a dynamic muscular activity
Dynamic muscular activity feels like you have control over your muscles, like you can shorten and lenghten them easily, they feel light even when doing intense work with them

Static muscular activity feels like your muscles are "dead" and not following your commends, they feel like chronically shortened and like you can't feel them move and like you need a rest to reset the static condition and bring them back to a natural state






 

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