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RSI and muscle memory

Author: Late_returner
Date: 2019-01-12 00:21

I have been spending much practice time on fast scales and arpeggios and chromatics in order to improve muscle memory , to improve improvising. I'll admit having done this a bit excessively. So I was deliberately repeating over and over fast finger movements in those nasty keys where you realise why the clarinet has so many bits of metal stuck on.

Hours after finishing one day I was hit by a dreadful pain in my right thumb/ inner palm which took hours to clear and caused a 3 week break from playing. Now its largely recovered but I'm aware that it could reoccur( no warning while I played, so how can I know )
I assume this was RSI

I am looking into thumb rest position, considering Kooliman (?). I have been using a Ridenour saddle for years, but hadn't considered that if you don't move the rest higher the saddle makes the low rest even lower, especially increasing the stretch to the low trill for Eb etc.

Anyway my question is .... is there a known problem between doing enough repetitions to get passages into the fingers and RSI?

Any advice would be welcomed, thanks in advance.

Royston

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