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As for treatment time and recovery ... mine took 3 months of physio and not working (or guitaring) and was still only good enough to go back to work. Mine was a bad one but not bad enough to warrant going under the knife.
With regular correct exercise prognosis is OK. But remember to keep those exercises up after you're better as wear and tear can re-bugger your shoulder later on.
Now I've got the same bastard thing in my right shoulder. Hopefully catching it much earlier (I did the bloke thing of ingoring it the last time thinking it would go away by itself) before it freezes up will let the exercises work better. It's almost stopping me play, and holding my acoustic makes me wince, but that's motivation to keep working on the exercises.
I've been for physio and the knee can possibly be fixed by getting insoles. The Physio said my hip-knee-foot alignment was well out of whack and if I correct that with insoles I should see improvements.
However its worse in cold weather and I have arthritis in my family so it could be that
As for the arm, I haven't had that looked at yet as it's very occasional.
It's fucking depressing, I'm only 31.
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Re:the knee, I use orthotics for my shoes as my arches collapsed but all my ailments are left-sided and I'm regularly out of whack.
I'm finding out that correct posture and core strength are so important for this, especially to musicians and correct stretching exercises too. I think years of playing lengthy function gigs probably didn't help.
Much appreciated folk
A lot has changed in the last few years.
http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/our-services/rheumatology/specialties/musicians-clinic/overview.aspx
@boogieman - that's a good recovery period and it looks to be curative as well.
Many thanks
I suppose careful, correct and considered practise/playing is also needed rather than straightforward repetition of stuff.
It sucks- but I gigged 2 weeks after having one of them done- I just need help to carry my stuff to the car.
When I had hand surgery I couldn't play properly for 2 years.
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You also moved to those ergonomic Forshage guitars too.
My left shoulder if bad.
Done the cuff bench pressing three years ago.
Lighter weight and a lot of stretching have made it better ,but still not back to normal.
I don't want to talk too much about the ergonomic guitar thing because it might be easily misunderstood but IMHO some of the benefits of 'ergonomic guitars' are potentially overstated.
Posture is a complex issue and whilst a headless guitar can partially assist with some elements of posture, if there is a pre-existing condition in the player then that needs to be addressed separately.
Post-surgery I worked with a physio and then a kinesiologist.
I now do Pilates most days and my posture is much better.
This isn't a criticism of any of these designs.
I mostly thing of these instruments as 'headless' guitars, rather than 'ergonomic' guitars because the ergonomic label implies a therapeutic benefit and I have found no evidence to support this claim.
This is all very much IMHO.
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Years ago I had RSI in both hands. The sadistic surgeon wanted to operate on them at the same time almost like some "2 For One" thing to which I responded "And how do you propose I wipe my backside"? Anyway, I had the op on just one of them and that didn't go so well (recovery period was unusually long - it took me out of playing live for 14mths - and it's still not quite right). Learning from that, I pushed for ultrasound and physio on the other one and that worked and all's absolutely fine there.
There's an exercise that is good for rehabilitating them/helping prevent further injury : the L-flye
http://imbodybuilding.com/articles/shatter-proof-shoulders/