Anyone of you had this because of playing or something - or any experience with it at all?

I dislocated my elbow last year in April but I never had problems with that afterwards...

It's since a couple of days I have this, especially when I wake up, I feel pain inside my elbow... It doesn't feel like I overloaded it (by playing...)

Hope it ain't gonna make me quit playing (for a while), it would kill me

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try stretching and putting some heat on it...massage would help too.

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thx...

but the problem is, it doesn't seem to be the muscle... rather the bone or something like that.

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Yep. We're gonna need amputation here.

Nah serious,itll go away. Pains always go away by about 1-2 weeks. if it persists for like a month id see a doctor. well i wouldnt, but id recommend it.

massage and heat helps the bone as well.

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mm, I had it too for quite a while, but that was because I was playing way too much. especially if you play live you put on a lot more stress then you need, since you're kinda freaking out continuously.

dunno, maybe play a bit less or take more pauses.

or wank less..

the "less masturbation" thing was just begging to be posted

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Mind that you aren't tensing your arm when you play.

I went to my doctor with wrist pain (from playing fast and using computers) in both wrists. He said it was carpal tunnel irritation, but that it wouldn't be a big deal, I could get a surgery if it got too bad and be fine. He prescribed Vioxx and said not to worry about it, and now I'm having absolutely no problems.

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haha vioxx i got some of that stuff at home, anti-inflamatory right?
im sure the pain will go away, if not, go get it checked out, better having to only take a few weeks to recover cuz of something small then not playing guitar for 2 months cuz you caused major damage

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NO big deal!?!?! Carpel Tunnel Sydrom is fucking scary. Id never want that shit.... and i porbably will get it cause of typing and playng guitar

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whoa wait A TIC syndrome or irritation? is it the same thing? cuz maybe hes talking about something else, or it could be a typo.

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Carpal tunnel is a bitch. I hope that ill never get it. I think you gotta wear that wrist brace thing when you have the syndrome.

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What you need is more wankin, and take Anti-inflammitory, ibuprofen is an anti-inflammitory. Vioxx needs a perscription, and generally is for arthritis. You just need to condition your arm to handle it, quiting will only set you back, why would you even consider? So yeah, don't quit, jack-off lots, massage it, heat it and stretch it. That's my advice.

And F.Y.I. carpul tunnel can be avoided by stretching, your arms as well.

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I was going to say that

Pushups do realy help, because you get some blood sirculation. If you are tired in your arm, take a few. But not so many that you get exhausted

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i went on a guitar course last year and one of my teachers had problems with his wrist and elbow for a year and then he properly fucked his arm up. So he had to have surgery etc, he told us that all this could have been stopped in its tracks if he had the correct posture for playin guitar and that he should of stretched and done some skipping wen he felt pain.

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That's what I thought too, but my doctor didn't think it was a problem at all, didn't even say I should take any time off. I think surgery is getting better and better. He said he's seen the same thing happen to a lot of other guitarists.

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Just ask Dave Mustaine if you're unsure about how sensitive your arm's are...he fell asleep on his and lost the feeling in it for month, and had to do physio to build up strength to do anything, then teach himself how to play guitar again.

If you get pains, stop playing/typing/wanking right away. I had to end a band practice early once because I got a wierd pain in my middle finger. It wouldn't hurt at all when I moved it, but it have me a shooting pain as soon as I used it to fret a note. It went away pretty quick, and it has happened again once or twice to a lesser degree. It would only happen at the end of a 4 hour band practice tho.

I'd also get a painful elbow when trying to practise really fast downpicking at home, and it basically toaught me to always make sure I warm up my joints and stretch them as an athlete would.

Everyone says 'don't tense up' when playing fast, but to get fast accurate downstrokes at about 210 bpm (2 downstrokes for every beat) I have to be fairly tense. So I have to warm up.


Also, I always heard Carpel Tunnel Syndrome was BAD...

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doctors dont know shit, i went there cuz my shoulder was thrown out 5 years ago, and the pain never went away... he say "well just take a can and do exercises with it" bullshit, it didnt work.

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