Marshall, This may be a long shot, but I had a similar sounding problem to what you are describing. I had something called a "ganglion cyst" which was was down between my wrist bones. Tuning or playing for an extended period would cause a lot of pain in my wrist and also the top of my hand near the wrist. I wore a wrist band for a while which helped a little by limiting the range of motion. Finally I had a surgery (in February) and now the wrist is much better. That said, you'd most likely know if you had a ganglion cyst, as they're usually noticeable. With mine, if I bent my wrist down, it would sort of pop up. Pretty weird looking. Like I say, it's a long shot, but if you've got any unidentified bulges along the wrist area or the top of your hand, it's something to keep in mind. Best of luck, Court Stewart On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 12:03 AM, Gerald Groot <tunerboy3 at comcast.net>wrote: > agreed. Get up and move around and stretch once in a while. Walk around > or > go outside and enjoy the weather for 5 minutes. Sometimes, I'll lay flat > on > a hard floor for a few minutes just to help stretch out the back a little > bit. Sounds goofy but, it works for me anyway. > > -----Original Message----- > From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On > Behalf > Of Norm Barrett > Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:35 PM > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Subject: Re: [pianotech] re. wrist band etc > > Marshall, > One other thing you might want to watch for. It is easy when tuning to > get your whole body tensed up. Watching for this and making yourself > relax and even stretching a little can help immeasurably The tension > itself is tiring > Norm Barrett. > . > > Marshall Gisondi wrote: > > Thank you William Robin Dave adn anyone else who responded. The pain > > is on the part of th wrist the top portion, and is from stretching to > > do octaves. Unfortunately I cannot take Advil asprin etc. tears my > > stomach up. Eleve helped a little. I tune for a school district now, > > and letting off the tuning won't happent until I get about 30 tunigs > > done total before the end of next month hopefulyin the middle of > > next month. If that won't build up tuning speed, I don't know what > > will. :-) It's also a good way to learn how to diagnos needed repairs. > > > > I'll also check into the ear plug situation as well. After tuning a > > couple of pianos, my heads tired the feeling one gets when they are up > > too late and everything is in slow motion. > > > > Hopefuly this wrist band will help, and Ill see where the movement is > > originating. I think it is the forearm, but not sure. Thanks again > > everyone > > Marshall > > > > Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician > > Marshall's Piano Service > > */pianotune05 at hotmail.com/* > > 215-510-9400 > > Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind > > www.pianotuningschool.org <http://www.pianotuningschool.org/> > > Vancouver, WA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up > > now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222985/direct/01/> > > > > _____ > > avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. > > > Virus Database (VPS): 090920-0, 09/20/2009 > Tested on: 9/21/2009 12:03:08 AM > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090921/f297f25b/attachment-0001.htm>
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