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Topic: Left hand finger pain
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MUSICO
Member From: Jeremy Williams in Spain
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posted 14 June 2003 06:51 AM
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I am getting a pain in my left hand third finger after prolonged practice. I believe it is from resting the finger on the strings behind the bar..friction obviously occurs and Im rubbing it sore.Is this common? Are any others thinking of knitting a quaint little "finger sock"? Jeremy Williams
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Erv Niehaus
Member From: Litchfield, MN, USA
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posted 14 June 2003 07:31 AM
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It sounds like you might be experiencing a mild form of "carpel tunnel". It might be caused from resting your wrist on the strings while playing.
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Eric West
Member From: Portland, Oregon, USA
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posted 14 June 2003 11:25 AM
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Gotta admit, that since I started knitting about the time I got my first Banjo, that I haven't done ANY since about 1964. If I'd have chosen the "other path", I wonder where I'd be..Now that you mention it, I have been getting the urge lately to knit something. I don't know exactly what I will try and knit, but I don't think it will be a "finger sock". I was thinking more of a Panhead Warmer. "Steel Guitar Players that Knit" "The Bill Hankey Knit 1/Perl 2 Counter" Why not...? I'll bet Gene J and Larry B knit...  EJL (P.S. I'd think a glove finger would do it.) PP. SS. Right now I'm still stuck trying to imagine a world where there are no hypothetical situations, and thinking up another word for "synonym". At least it's gotten that stupid song "Alone Again, Naturally" out of my head for the time being. I wish to God that whoever it was had never started that thread.... |
MUSICO
Member From: Jeremy Williams in Spain
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posted 15 June 2003 07:44 AM
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No, definitely not carpal tunnel.It's more like a pain under the skin on the first joint from the finger tip...like Id burst a tiny blood vessel from rubbing, sore to the touch Jeremy Williams
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Gord Cole
Member From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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posted 15 June 2003 08:57 AM
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Jeremy:
I have the EXACT same thing! I've developed a small "callousy" bump on the crease of that finger where I presume it slides regulary along the string. It indeed feels like a cut or a sting when the string hits it just right. I don't notice it often but certainly on occassion. Sorry I don't have an answer but I too will be following this thread.
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Ray Montee
Member From: Portland, OR, USA
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posted 15 June 2003 11:21 AM
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As old as I am, I've NEVER HEARD of anything like this. Of late, I've observed so many different ways that newer pickers have created in order to HOLD THE BAR......rather than doing it like in the olden times tried and perfected style.
If the fingers on the bar hand are placed and applied like in the old days, nothing like you've described should ever occur, in my opinion, but then again.......
The pointer finger of your LEFT hand should be lying squarely atop the bar, placing the finger nail end atop the rounded end of the bar. This should be only a mild "pressure" atop the bar, sufficient only to HELP hold and control the bar.
The other fingers merely rest gently atop the strings with the middle finger placed against the bar so as to provide control of the bar along with the pointer and THUMB.
Downward finger pressure should be minimal.
Done properly, this should not even raise a callous. After 60 years, I have no such hardened skin nor pain. Some players are shoving very large diameter bars into the space between the middle finger and the ring finger which it appears would likely create some kind of excruiating pain, someday. Others are shoving the bar into the hand and the root of fingers between the middle and index or pointer finger.
If it hurts YOU, chances are, you are doig it incorrectly.? If it smokes, you're doing it too fast.? Etc.
Proper bar handling is a BASIC. Pain has never been associated with correct bar handling. |
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