#ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Kobau, are you SURE you arent ME?! lol About 3-4wks ago now my wrist/hand near my pinkie finger started to absolutely KILL and my arm swelled and bruised right up. I had very little strength. I went to my dr and her brilliant deduction was I was weak in that arm (duh, I had just finished telling her that, thats why I was there), but she sai dI was weak in that arm and needed physio. GRRR. No wonder I don't like going to the drs. I can lift a 40-60lb bale with that arm alone, but not htat day..... Anyways..... She did give me a perscription for physio, but I wasn't convinced that was the problem. I am right handed, but am very ambidexterous and actually use my left arm over my right for a lot of things. About 3 days before it started to bother me I did 300 bales of hay.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#So, I then notice a "popping" right above my knobby wrist bone. Talked to a few people (my parents are big into race walking and know a lot of massage ther's, ostiopaths, etc and get that stuff done regulairly) and they figured it is a tight tendon, and the problem was coming from my ELBOW. I mean this clicking would hurt so much I coulda cried.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Now, I'll backtrack and say I DO have golfers elbow, a rep. stress injury (golfers elbow is when it is the under side of your arm muscle that hurts, tennis elbow is the top muscle). I type for a living (admin assistant) so thats where it came from, but that has come under control (thanks to an ergonomist and a negative tilt to my keyboard and keyboard tray, nutter topic

) and this hurt a HECK of a lot more.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#So, my dad, on my birthday no less!, starts to massage my elbow to the point of pain..... BUT, for the first time in 3 weeks when I woke up the next moring I was able to straighten out my pinky finger WITHOUT pain!!! I then made an appointment with their mass. ther. (who I had seen before). I got there and know what the problem is? NO, not that I'm weak...... simply overuse and the tendon is "burnt out". She almost DID make me cry with the pain! But, it hurt like heck for 2 days after that (swelled up, a bit of bruising), but then it felt SOOO much better. She did tell me to ice it when I got home, because of the heat she had created and the swelling.#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#So, my advice to you Kobau is, get to a mass. ther. It was explained to me that a chiro. can put the bone back in place (great), BUT, it doesn't losen up the tendon that probably caused the bone problem. So they really havne't solved the problem. If the tendon/muscle is loosened up, the bone should go back into place naturally (or more easily). Now, it is still bugging me, but she said she can only do so much, a lot of it has to be me - not overusing it (as I type this with both hands

), stretching it, both directions (palm against a flat surface....) and, to loosen everything and get the fluid moving, do a lot of shaking of the arm. As in, stick it out and shake. It's all helping. OK, I'm also still picking up the square bales with it, using it for chores, etc, but I can't avoid it. It's just me with 4 horses, a goat, a donkey, 2 dogs and 3 cats!#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl# #ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl##ed_op#DIV#ed_cl#Hope that helps! Gonna go shake out my arm now! lol#ed_op#/DIV#ed_cl#