I thought to write few lines, but the words just crept up.
Been there... done that... and still nothing is changed. I can suggest something different and radical, it works, mostly... for me.
whatever stage in life you are, you have got your fascia tissues bunched up here and there and they are already compressed/shortened and will get worse more and more since they are no longer getting enough replenishment/end of healthy life. There is no modern way they can be reverted. Analogy like the bridge ropes, 100s of tiny ropes connect to a gigantic rope that supports the bridge. You can not align the bridge by using the big rope, rather you have to work with the small ones.
Doctors/physical therapists/voodoo medicine man is useful temporarily as they are basing their research on a human version of guinea pig but the current batch of people are somewhat/much more different than the laboratory specimen they used for clinical studies, blah. Read more about fascia tissues and you will know how much (less?) the doctors know about the human body and where they are/can go wrong.
The followings have worked for ME:
1. Chinese herbal treatment where the herbalist gives you a bunch of dried leaves, twigs, and what not and you have to boil the stuff for couple of hours and drink the resulting god knows what religiously for a few doses. The herbalist told me I am not getting enough blood flow to my arms and gave me the same for for 3 doses. Each time he tailors the stuff for current situation. There are also doses and anti-doses that counter any side effect of some other ingredient. Second dose had side effects, I slept and ate like a pig and got 7+ pounds heavier. After that I was good to go for 2-3 months. But the pain in ( mostly right, but some time left) elbow & palm came back.
Then I searched for an answer and found it.
It is that the whole world is tuned for the right handed, and subconsciously we are using the right hand always. Check your writing, door locks, switch positions, car controls, gestures, there may be much more. Hell, if you watch people you will see they use the right hand to unbutton and pull the shirts, why? the shirts have button on the left side, so you have to use right!!! How about the trouser zippers?
Now if you look at your arms, they are not really built like the right hand is huge to work all day and left is tiny? They are built almost the same expecting balanced work. In other words we probably have already over used the right arm and it is either worn out or is going to sooner while the left is in the healthy territory. One good news is unlike robot hands our hands are repaired every instant by body. So the only answer to the above question is may be the arm is not getting replenished as much it needs. So either replenish it or more some of the right operation to the left.
2. I am actively trying to move a lot of these so called day to day activity so that there is some balance between both hands and the right can heal. It is helping, but difficult to de-learn the brain signals.
3. Stretching: This is pretty interesting. Stretching works but after a few days it does not. The culprit lies in the way we do it. We work hard and after some time feel pretty wound up and do a little bit of stretching, some guys do it one time, some go to gym etc. Everybody thinks it is working but they are merely kicking the can a little ahead. The right way may be to stretch only after you reduce/eliminate the muscle activity signal, this way the stretching is more permanent and body does not fight it. I have been trying this, semi successful, but a long way to go.
4. Sleep: Watch babies, they have a pattern. Watch them before they go to sleep and after they wake up. You will find some answers.
5. Finally diet: I am opening a can of worms, but this is one of the most important thing that is helping RSI? What? How?
OK, I define meat eater as somebody who eats meat as primary diet, that mean breakfast thru diner. The alternative is not vegetarian, which has become almost a taboo. I have created a healthy alternative... 'just eater'
, I consider myself mostly a vegetarian, only in the sense that I eat a little meat, some chicken, fish etc but mostly a lot of vegetables etc.
The issue of current meat eaters is that they are eating a very unbalanced diet since the animals they are consuming are also consuming... mostly corn, even the cow, a grass eating animal is fed 85-90% corn. Ever thought why the chicken and the beef taste almost similar?
So, assuming that majority of Americans are meat eaters, and the only vegetable they eat is that thin slice of lettuce in a sandwich which is 99% water and rest 1% is genetically modified something, how do you suggest you get body's ingredients, say phyto-nutrients, vitamins & other proteins apart from the animal protein? I have not even started talking about the drip irrigation farming, pesticides/herbicides thru drip, chemical spray before and after harvesting, controlled/rationed animal food leading to ingredient empty meat, bovine growth hormones and lot more things. The bottom line is you may not be eating right or eating for your body and the body is not fool, it is catching up to all these years of abuse. Have you seen college kids complaining palm/elbow pain? I did not see 10-15 years ago, but now a days you can see that. How about obese kids weighing 150 pounds? Yes, started happening in rest of the world where the GM foods and pre-packaged foods have gone.
tldr;
short term: go to your doc and get fixed/patched/repaired, might work temporarily/forever.
long term: Things are not well and they will only get worse in future. Take charge. Nobody will take responsibility for their actions.
P.S. When I see another guy who is in the RSI bandwagon and getting/may get misdiagnosed I am compelled to throw in my 2 cents.
