This whole ordeal was the inital reason I became interested in learning the anatomy of the hands, joint functions, efficient muscular activations, the implications of posture, etc. My facility with the guitar started to return, and eventually I was symptom free. Tendon damage heals slowly, but my situation improved steadily over time. I retrained my typing technique, started working to improve my posture, started spending less time gaming and stopped watching TV on my laptop. She said that not only did it not look like my guitar playing was the issue, but that my general posture and overall body tension seemed to lessen when I was holding the guitar. I was asked to bring a guitar to a physiotherapy session so my physio could observe my playing. We identified the activities which aggrevated my condition, mentioned above. Eventually I was in chronic pain and the function in my hands (particularly my left hand) was becoming very limited. I went to a physiotherapist regularly, the problem would lessen for a while, and then it would come back worse. I put the decreased dexterity and fluidity down to just spending less time playing the things I had played when I was younger.Įventually, I developed tendinitis in my right wrist, then my left. At the time I had mostly lost interest in fast playing, I was tired of hearing myself playing the same licks I had been playing since my teens, I didn’t yet understand how to build my own fast vocabularly, and I was mostly concerned with developing my tone, phrasing, note shaping, etc. I did notice myself losing some dexterity and fluidity while playing guitar. Obviously, this was bad for my posture aswell. The last issue is that I go in the habit of watch television shows while lying on my bed with my laptop on my abdomen. I would also sit in poor posture while gaming, mostly sitting on my bed with my legs crossed, elbows at my knees, shoulders rounded forwards. I was mostly a console gamer and I mostly used the controller (PS3 at the time), but I was a big fan of fighting games and I had arcade style controllers for playing those games. I was also gaming more than I had been during my late teens, most of my expenses were covered by my scholarship and I was making regular money working as a teaching assistant in tutorials, grading papers, etc. This resulted in my extensors being under constant tension while working at a computer. I could not hold a cup of coffee in my left hand for more than a year, and I was genuinely concerned that if the problem persisted I wouldn’t be able to play guitar anymore.įor me, the big issue was very poor form and posture using a keyboard and mouse. While typing my Ph.D thesis, I developed severe tendinitis/tendinosis in both wrists which persisted for nearly two years. I’ve never had issues with excessive tension or poor posture while playing guitar, however… I’ve written about this a little bit in other threads. you said you used to game a bit, did it ever translate to excess tension during playing? So just wondering if anyone has had the same issues. I can try gaming with my keyboard but my hand just still feels weird. I think the ps5 controller is def the biggest factor because I can feel my right hand get tired and tense while playing. I’ve tried the vertical mouse and it’s really not much better for me. My right wrist also gets tired with a normal pc mouse. When I go from playing video games to guitar, I can tell my right hand is already tensed up because I feel like I naturally over squeeze or over push my Ps5 controller buttons when playing lots of shooter stuff usually. I can’t lie, I very much enjoy a bit of video games almost every day or every day of the week. And I honestly think it’s because of always using a computer mouse during playing (going back and forth from guitar to pc stuff), and playing more video games recently. Lately my right hand has been getting more easily and more tensed up during playing.
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