[BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: arm pain

[Mathias Rösel]

"Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
> Bad news. I'm typing with one hand only as I seem to have a problem with my
> left. For the past five days I've had muscular pain in my upper left arm. I
> thought I must have knocked it, but couldn't remember doing so. I did teach
> a percussion class last Monday, but hardly used my left arm at all.  Anyway,
> I could still play the lute - no problem with fingers, tendons, carpal
> tunnels, etc. I thought the pain would pass. But it hasn't. In fact, today
> it has got a lot worse. I nearly crashed the car because I suddenly lost the
> use of the left arm. Luckily I was close to home. Later I picked up a book
> and dropped it immediately - the pain was too much. So, I'm really worried.
> I  can still wiggle my fingers - no problem at all there - but I can't
> drive, or lift my instrument with the left arm. I'm still hopeful it will
> all disappear tomorrow, but I plan to go to hospital emergency if it
> doesn't. Every movement is painful, but it still feels like a muscular
> problem. 
> 
> Any experience of this?

Yes. For me, it's a baroque lute problem. Never experienced it with the
renaissance lute. But with the baroque lute I did, every now and then,
after periods of intensive practising. Like all muscels of the left arm
cramp, even up to the neck. When that happens, I stop practising for a
day or two, and afterwards resume very slowly. IMO it's a matter of
superfluous tension with the neck muscles.
-- 
Mathias



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