Right arm progress so far...

[geopianoincanada]

Well it's been about a month now doing physiotherapy to help my ailing right arm. The physiotherapist advised me to curb but not halt my piano practice. The right hand, wrist and arm are showing improved flexability and motion so that's a good thing!

I can definitely feel the tension radiating down from my neck (old whiplash injury) pulling on my right arm through the shoulder increasing much tension as I try to run through scales this morning. Left arm remains perfectly unaffected and relaxed.

I'll continue with the physiotherapy exercises prescribed and hope for improvement. Given the whiplash injury (2 of them actually, both on the job, hit from behind) date from the late 1980s and early 1990s they've had a long time to "bake in" and I don't expect they're going away any time soon so I'll have to work on developing coping mechanisms to allow me to continue to play without causing any excessive strain to an old injury.

[lostinidlewonder]

Have you tried chiropractors?

[perfect_pitch]

Damn... how did you get whiplash from your job? Are you a stunt car driver...

Just joking - I'm glad it's getting better though. I don't know what I would do if I couldn't play the piano. I once injured my left thumb and couldn't play properly for a few months. Had to resort to 5ths in the LH with fingers 2 & 5 for Mass. Was rather tedious...

Best of luck for your recovery... wishing you all the best and that this is putting you in more and more of a positive mood as you reach that point of full restoration.   🙂

[geopianoincanada]

Both jobs back then required much driving to customer locations. I was a field engineer then.

First crash was in Sept 1988, I was stopped at a red light but the guy behind me was speeding and crashed into me. I was off work for a year.

In 1992 or 93 I was driving back from another customer call in another city. I was on the freeway, the 401. Traffic ground to a halt due to construction. I stopped. The guy behind me tried to stop but the guy on his right cut him off, ran into the back of me and ended up half under my work van. That put me off work for 6 months.

It hasn't been an issue until lately when I've been working on more challenging material (grade 6) so I guess it put strain on things which I thought were long forgotten.

Not sure if I trust chiropractors. I know of a few people who went to a couple of different chiropractors and they ended up much worse off. Pain is an old companion as long as it doesn't interfere with motion as it does now.

[lostinidlewonder]

of a few people who went to a couple of different chiropractors and they ended up much worse off. Pain is an old companion as long as it doesn't interfere with motion as it does now.

Just need to find a reputable one, i know a whole list of people who have benefited from them more than physios.