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pain!

Author: jan
Date: 2001-04-17 14:19

over the few years i have returned to playing clarinet i have had increasing pain in my upper body...neck, shoulders, arms, wrists, hands, knuckles. i dont think i am a tense player. i went to my doctor a couple years ago and asked if it could be from playing clarinet and she laughed at me. she then prescribed an arthritis medication which i take twice a day now and its losing its effectiveness. she did NOT give me any tests to even find the cause of the pain and its getting worse now. im also playing A LOT more than when it began. im just wondering if others out there have this kind of pain...im kinda young to have arthritis (30's) and do you think its from clarinet playing or maybe something else that is aggrevated by the playing? are there any doctors that specialize in musician medicine like the docs who specialize in sports med. i feel like im being laughed at for making the association of the pain with clarinet playing.
jan

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