I Have A Mild Injury In My Arm, Please Help. Options

[Robin]

This is the 11th day without guitar so far, the reason for that is that one day I did weight lifting and alot of bending and vibrato in standard E tuning, I'm used to standard/open D/C tuning atm. I did not warm up properly and I havent done any of these things for months. I have only played acoustic with lower tuning the past couple of months, not much bending there.
It might be something called repetetive strain disorder, a mild one in this case.

The day after this I felt a little stiff in my fretting arm, so I decided to take a day off. The next day I started to feel slight pain from my elbow to my hands. It wasnt really much pain, but it was uncomfortable.
It remained the same for about 6 days, no better no worse. Then the 7th and 8th day it got better and after that till today it seems to have healed very fast, though its still not at 100%.

I just came home from the doctor, he have played guitar himself so he knew what it was all about, very nice guy btw. I said that I didnt think this was very serious because after all I stopped using my arm before I even felt pain and I havent used it for 11 days and it seems to be almost 100% healed now. He said that some people have to stop playing for life and that it started out the way it did with me, but I'm not stupid, I will of course take it chill and not play untill I'm a 100%.

The doctor suggested that I started to play very slow and easy for like 5 minutes a day, and also jogging, because it gets the blood stream flowing. Stretching aswell of course. No need for any medication aslong as I do this and take it piano.
I'm pretty sure I will be fine, but it might take two more weeks or something. Damn, one month without playing, madness!

The three first days I went crazy, but you know, they say that if you are trying to quit smoking, all you need to do is not smoke for three days. I dont smoke, but damn, the fourth day I didnt feel like playing at all for some reason, I guess it works.


I remember reading somewhere that one time Kris couldnt play for 6 months because of a injury
I'd love to hear GMC'ers experience about these things, what should I do, what shouldnt I do? What did you do? Will I be fine?


I'll be back soon, I'm off for a quick jog. Thanks.

(Damn it sucks only typing with one hand)

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