Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 1998/07

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] two more things on tendonitis
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 11:26:39 -0400

Well -- presumably, one way to prevent tennis elbow is not to play tennis.
Of course, for professional players (including musicians), this is a silly
suggestion. However, do pro tennis players get tennis elbow? If not,
perhaps they heed the warning signs - whatever they may be. I get pain
sometimes which I always (so far) recover from pretty quickly. I would
start worrying if I *didn't* recover quickly, I think. Isn't this
reasonable??
rjs

On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Robin Black wrote:

> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:35:30 -0400
> From: Robin Black <BLACKR@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] two more things on tendonitis
>
> 1) Someone advised "exercising your muscles." WRONG! This is an *injury* and requires rest, not exercise. You risk injuring yourself worse than before if you don't give the tendons time to rest and heal.
>
> 2) Someone else wanted to know why we don't work to "prevent" tendonitis. You can't "prevent" tendonitis any more than you can "prevent" a gunshot wound. It's an injury to the connective tissues on a joint, and the only possible way to avoid tendonitis is not to overwork the joint (e.g., tennis elbow, the most commonly known kind of tendonitis). Trouble is, most people don't realize they're putting too much stress on the joints until the connective tissue is injured and it's too late. Thank heavens for Advil. :-)
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