Injuries, Stretching & Guitar !, How do we evolve a better way ? |
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Injuries, Stretching & Guitar !, How do we evolve a better way ? |
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Dec 7 2014, 01:00 PM |
Well.. This is a very fitting thing right now to talk about.
I won't play if my hands are cold depending on why they are cold. If I was outside doing something in the snow or maybe even driving a short distance to where the heat never got warm enough. I will wait it out a bit and let my hands get from that cold achy feeling to the hey they are stiff because we haven't been using them. From that point I will pick up the guitar and noodle a bit and just do some exercises. Start slow and gradually get faster as my hands warm up. I'm starting to see that I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I can get my sync and warmth at the same time. I have always felt that as long as my hands are warm, then everything is fine. But I think we should be concerned with the body as a whole. Because one day we are going to have that "I'm not as young as I use to be". So we should just get into a routine to prepare ourselves to try and prevent that for as long as we can! This is coming from a 31 year old who was off of work for a week due to hurting his back. It came from playing the guitar, I have a computer chair with arms so I kinda sit weird some times. Kinda pushed up towards the edge, sideways, and bent way over. I went to set the guitar down and I over extended my body to set it in the stand. At that point my back kinda locked up in pain. I couldn't even get out of my chair alone at that point. After I got up I could hear a lot of people here. Dude it's your back, it's one of the most important parts of our bodies right next to our hands. So I was like suck it up buttercup! Got a ride to urgent care and found out I sprained my back. I was playing for a few hours in that position. So now I try to get up and walk every hour or two, or I continue to play standing for a little while just to get those legs and back stretched. So I wanted to add the stress that it can happen to anyone, young or old, no matter the number we are we should always be concerned of our health and body. After all this happening, I'm actually looking into getting a new chair by Christmas and to get it without arms so that I can have better posture while playing. 3 days of not touching a guitar because of pain felt like I didn't play for years. So its time to be more careful, I'm old! -------------------- Guitars:
Ibanez S770PB (Natural Flat) , Ibanez XPT700 (Chameleon) , Sterling J Richardson Signature , Squire IV Jazz Bass (Sunburst) Gear: Neural DSP Plugins My YouTube Page. |
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Dec 7 2014, 02:58 PM |
Totally, man.. sitting down in chairs for long periods is just so anti nature it's untrue ! Computers are great but it sucks that it's just such a physically detrimental posture. I swear that my RSI wouldn't be as much of a problem if it wasn't for all the mouse work. The funny part was when I was in with the doctor, he's like so why were you actually getting up? Well... I wanted a piece of oreo pie... *shakes fist in the air* YOU HAVE FAILED ME FOOD! No, you don't get to use that one yet, man... only 31 !!! There's loads of 80 yr old Japanese senseis giving you a disapproving look right now I am my mothers son? She picked these up at the store one day and her back went out! Nah just means that we need to realize to take care of our bodies more. Got an item that's weird to hold alone? Well don't be like psh! I got this, ask for help. Something is heavy and has to lifted a certain height, bend with the legs and if you can find some help. We only live once, make the best of what we have as we are only given one chance! A back, neck, arms, shoulder, and hands, basically our entire upper body. If one of those goes down, we can have a set back or if it's bad enough lose the ability to be able to create music. We range from artists, studio musicians, and even a hobbyist. We all have the common factor of enjoying, creating, and playing music. Its a passion we have inside us, a fire that is always lit and burning. We lose that, we lose a part of ourselves, no one wants that. I'm not sure where my maturity happened with these sort of things at all. Dunno if it's from the music, life experiences, or even the discipline we have to teach ourselves to become better at we love. For all I know it could just be the community here. All the like minded people who share experiences, students helping each other get better, the instructors who help to the best that they can to show us the paths, the life lessons we hear as people talk of, or even the reoccurring talk of zen like qualities. But no matter what it's helped me be a better person in the end because of all the positivity that is here. All the more reasons to care more about ourselves, so that as a guitarist and an individual I can help spread the emotions through music as I can't sing! -------------------- Guitars:
Ibanez S770PB (Natural Flat) , Ibanez XPT700 (Chameleon) , Sterling J Richardson Signature , Squire IV Jazz Bass (Sunburst) Gear: Neural DSP Plugins My YouTube Page. |
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Dec 7 2014, 06:46 PM |
I've never really 'hurt' myself playing guitar but I have some injuries due to other things.
In fact two or three days a ago I was digging up some of my lawn and I really f'd up my right shoulder. So bad that I need to go to a chiropractor. -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/foolin-the-clouds https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/surfin-at-the-country-hop Soundcloud assorted ... https://soundcloud.com/klasaine3 New record ... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kenlasaine Solo Guitar ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...5iIdO2tpgtj25Ke Stuff I'm on ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...b-dhb-4B0KgRY-d |
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Dec 8 2014, 01:35 AM |
I'm used to it. I have a really good chiro that specializes in dancers, athletes and musicians. She rarely ever says "don't work". Its more about laying off everything else.
The most interesting thing she told me was that repetitive stress type of injuries don't usually show up until you add a 'new' activity to your daily routine (of physical stress) or do something totally outside of that normal routine no mater how strenuous that 'normal' routine may be. In my case yeah, I played guitar without injury for 30+ years. The new activity I added was pulling a carseat/baby carrier in out of a car and pushing a stroller. My arms and shoulders and neck basically 'screamed' "ENOUGH! We can take the constant guitar playing but you can't add a new activity". Once I dealt with the new, added activities - paying attention to how I lifted and pushed, along with some twice a month chiro tweaking for about 4 months - everything got back to normal. Every once in awhile I do something stupid and need a re-alignment ... like now. This post has been edited by klasaine: Dec 8 2014, 02:20 AM -------------------- - Ken Lasaine
https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/foolin-the-clouds https://soundcloud.com/klasaine2/surfin-at-the-country-hop Soundcloud assorted ... https://soundcloud.com/klasaine3 New record ... http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/kenlasaine Solo Guitar ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...5iIdO2tpgtj25Ke Stuff I'm on ... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXZh...b-dhb-4B0KgRY-d |
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Dec 8 2014, 08:30 AM |
I have a golfer's elbow issue in my right arm, which came on after a set of skullcrushers in the gym, I have to stretch out and massage my forearm muscles like crazy to get relief. I thought it wasn't going away due to keeping working out but guitar playing looks to be a bigger reason.
I'm now focusing on legato! -------------------- My SoundCloud
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