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Nov. 12th, 2009 11:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I may have to quit NaNoWriMo this year... because of tendonitis.
I'm going to rest for a few days and see how it goes. If my hands improve, I'll continue even though I won't make the 50.000 finishing line.
I'm going to rest for a few days and see how it goes. If my hands improve, I'll continue even though I won't make the 50.000 finishing line.
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Date: 2009-11-12 11:15 am (UTC)The new approach might even help.
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Date: 2009-11-12 11:49 am (UTC)I had a dream with you last night! It involved the Victoria pub. :-)
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Date: 2009-11-12 12:57 pm (UTC)I hope they feel better soon.
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Date: 2009-11-12 03:12 pm (UTC)Is the palm sensitivity just above the area where hand meets wrist?
Don't do motions that cause your wrists to deviate left or right (as in typing on a computer, you may have to have an LJ/FB moratorium for a few days) and don't rotate wrists around in circles, so shaking won't really help.
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Date: 2009-11-12 05:06 pm (UTC)I suppose I can go and run on the treadmill. What about swimming?
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Date: 2009-11-12 08:04 pm (UTC)Symptoms usually start gradually, with frequent burning, tingling, or itching numbness in the palm of the hand and the fingers, especially the thumb and the index and middle fingers. Some carpal tunnel sufferers say their fingers feel useless and swollen, even though little or no swelling is apparent. The symptoms often first appear in one or both hands during the night, since many people sleep with flexed wrists. A person with carpal tunnel syndrome may wake up feeling the need to "shake out" the hand or wrist. As symptoms worsen, people might feel tingling during the day. Decreased grip strength may make it difficult to form a fist, grasp small objects, or perform other manual tasks. In chronic and/or untreated cases, the muscles at the base of the thumb may waste away. Some people are unable to tell between hot and cold by touch.
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What are the causes of carpal tunnel syndrome?
Carpal tunnel syndrome is often the result of a combination of factors that increase pressure on the median nerve and tendons in the carpal tunnel, rather than a problem with the nerve itself. Most likely the disorder is due to a congenital predisposition - the carpal tunnel is simply smaller in some people than in others. Other contributing factors include trauma or injury to the wrist that cause swelling, such as sprain or fracture; overactivity of the pituitary gland; hypothyroidism; rheumatoid arthritis; mechanical problems in the wrist joint; work stress; repeated use of vibrating hand tools; fluid retention during pregnancy or menopause; or the development of a cyst or tumor in the canal. In some cases no cause can be identified.
There is little clinical data to prove whether repetitive and forceful movements of the hand and wrist during work or leisure activities can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Repeated motions performed in the course of normal work or other daily activities can result in repetitive motion disorders such as bursitis and tendonitis. Writer's cramp - a condition in which a lack of fine motor skill coordination and ache and pressure in the fingers, wrist, or forearm is brought on by repetitive activity - is not a symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome.
you need rest and to lengthen the muscles of your forearms. massage. if we can get on Skype video I can show you how to stretch the fascia of your forearms with minimal bending of the wrists. you should probably get an appt. with you GP so that you can be allowed rest from typing and using the mouse while at work.
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Date: 2009-11-12 06:20 pm (UTC)what time GMT do you go to bed , it's GMT -5 here
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:08 pm (UTC)My wrists have been killing me the last couple of days, I think I'm going to follow your very sensible example and have a day off, at least.
Hope you're feeling better soon!
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Date: 2009-11-13 10:44 am (UTC)Hope you are feeling better too. I dunked my arms in cold water last night, like
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Date: 2009-11-13 09:23 am (UTC)http://software.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?kw=speech+to+text&docid=726407&tag=content;leftCol
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Date: 2009-11-26 01:10 am (UTC)perhaps you need to get someone to type on your behalf!
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