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Carpal Tunnel - CARTOON REALITY - 26th May 2012
I used to have terrible nightmares about being trapped in a rabbit warren with the Pope.
My Doctor diagnosed it as a classic case of 'Papal Tunnel Syndrome.':o)
Carpal Tunnel - Pedant - 28th May 2012
Late to the party, but hey. Symptoms of CTS in both wrists, though never had the nerve tests done. Basically I'm chicken as I don't want to be referred for the op - I've known several people who've had it and it hasn't helped. Mostly it's not too bad, especially since I scored the desk job, but usually I wear supports on both wrists at night otherwise I can't sleep. But eventually I suppose I'll have to have the proper tests :face-crying:
Carpal Tunnel - P Prentice - 28th May 2012
CARTOON REALITY Wrote:I used to have terrible nightmares about being trapped in a rabbit warren with the Pope.
My Doctor diagnosed it as a classic case of 'Papal Tunnel Syndrome.':o)
not what you get when dreaming about your priest?
Carpal Tunnel - CARTOON REALITY - 28th May 2012
There's dreams and there's nightmares . . .
Carpal Tunnel - BAJR - 29th May 2012
Good news is that the doctor downgraded my CTS to repetitive strain ... no jokes ladies and gentlemen!
I wear a wrist support at night, but felt better to find out. Am off to a physio - and will just learn that I am not as young as I used to be. Look after your bodies people... and if you think something is wrong... get it checked. Still hurts. but no operation...
Carpal Tunnel - Dinosaur - 30th May 2012
RSI's no joke either - must learn to type using a different finger :face-crying:
Carpal Tunnel - Unitof1 - 30th May 2012
may I refere you to
http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/showthread.php?5390-A-handbook-for-new-diggers/page13
where I wrote
Quote:
can't trowel for **** .
problem with trowels is that it leads to artritus of the wrist and dry tendons. I have sometimes had my tendon make a
creaking noise. Now I mainly use one of those wolfgarden tools, which they dont seem to make any more, because it mainly involves a pulling action which is a bit like hoeing. I dont care to trowel for ****. As for the rest of your list
I find it sorely lacking in understanding of the logerithmic response of eyes to contrast. To put it most simplisticly dig with your back to the sun. I can only wonder at what you have missed....(VAT)
and thank you for agreeing with me chiz
I think that Cartoons observation
Quote:If you stopped selling the trowels you wouldn't need to stock the wrist supports . . .
should be taken further and trowels banned. Presumably curators would stop you from doing field work if you didnt have a trowel?
Carpal Tunnel - Jack - 30th May 2012
A bad workman always blames their tools}
Carpal Tunnel - Dinosaur - 30th May 2012
You got more than one?! :0
Carpal Tunnel - Unitof1 - 30th May 2012
its not so much bad work man blames the tools, its give somebody a tool and they think that they are a workman. The hand and wrist tendons are extremely complicated, constant troweling is bloody stupid. This thread proves that trowels cause RSI. They casue arthritus as well. Put it in your risk assesment. What we need is some medical assement showing what wrong with troweling.