My wife got me this hand warmer:
http://www.mybodycomfort.com/Pocket_Pack_Lavender-_2nd_Generation/ . I have
found it very helpful to hold it a couple of minutes before I have to play
in a cold church. It warms the fingers right up.
-----Original Message-----
From: Herbert Ward
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 11:50 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Cold hands.
A few weeks ago I posted a question
asking whether getting the hands cold
and stiff repeatedly causes irreversible
damage.
No one answered.
I've since had an opportunity to present
the question to a university professor
of physiology.
He seemed quite competent in answering, and I
have had trouble finding information with Google,
so I thought I'd pass his answer on.
The stiffness that we perceive in cold hands
is mostly from two sources. The first is that the
deep blood vessels expand to increase the supply
of blood. The second is that the muscles are
contracting in an effort to generate heat (this
is somewhat like shivering).
He said that the tissues are just fine after
rewarming (assuming, of course, that the
temperature stays well above frostbite level).
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