Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?
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I started getting some pains in my wrist and thumb on my right hand while the playing the game a few months back. I also play bass guitar so I became very concerned about doing irreparable damage to my hands that would hinder my ability to enjoy my 2 favorite hobbies. I took a week off from both and bought a wrist brace. It helped a little bit, but then I bought a nicer controller with paddles on the back that I've mapped to the front buttons and it's relieved a lot of the strain I was putting on my hands. I don't think that would help in your case but you should look into your options for minimizing stress on your joints, muscles, tendons etc. Also see a specialist now before it gets worse. The earlier you figure out a treatment plan the better.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
The amount of time I've spent gaming, due to current events, has increased over the past two years. I had to deal with tendinitis in my fingers last year because of it, but now I face something worse.
My left hand (the one that moves the PCI around when I'm batting, for example) has been experiencing these numbness spells, where the numbness shoots up and down my hand, from my wrist area to my fingers, usually the middle and index fingers. It may have happened to me while gaming, but I also specifically remember it happening to me when I was holding the steering wheel at 12:00 with my left hand and holding my phone up and swiping the screen with my left thumb.
I am a woman in her 20s. Not the usual age demographic for carpal tunnel syndrome. So even though I may have caught it in its early stages, it's really scaring me. I've read it usually starts in one hand before it occurs in both, but I don't know for sure because they tell you different things everywhere you search.
I am a student, and so I must spend a lot of time working on my computer. This is especially true as it is my senior year and I have hard classes that require a lot of writing and, thus, typing on my laptop.
With this post I am reaching out to anyone who also suffers or has suffered from this condition for guidance and advice. What should I do?
Any pain in the elbow area ?
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I seem to be a violent “swinger” and the consistent hard squeezing of the x button when batting lead to chronic tendinitis in my elbow that bothered me most of the last year ( bicep, tricep attachments). I had to reprogram the x button to the R trigger , see a chiropractor, and ultimately take a couple weeks off to get it to calm down ( took me a long time to figure out the root of the pain)
So I definitely agree with the guy above about strengthening those muscles and taking some time away from gaming. It will be there when you get it calmed down.
Good luck.
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@raienez_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
The amount of time I've spent gaming, due to current events, has increased over the past two years. I had to deal with tendinitis in my fingers last year because of it, but now I face something worse.
My left hand (the one that moves the PCI around when I'm batting, for example) has been experiencing these numbness spells, where the numbness shoots up and down my hand, from my wrist area to my fingers, usually the middle and index fingers. It may have happened to me while gaming, but I also specifically remember it happening to me when I was holding the steering wheel at 12:00 with my left hand and holding my phone up and swiping the screen with my left thumb.
I am a woman in her 20s. Not the usual age demographic for carpal tunnel syndrome. So even though I may have caught it in its early stages, it's really scaring me. I've read it usually starts in one hand before it occurs in both, but I don't know for sure because they tell you different things everywhere you search.
I am a student, and so I must spend a lot of time working on my computer. This is especially true as it is my senior year and I have hard classes that require a lot of writing and, thus, typing on my laptop.
With this post I am reaching out to anyone who also suffers or has suffered from this condition for guidance and advice. What should I do?
Any pain in the elbow area ?
No, not really any pain, just this weird numbness. What I felt (and haven't since last Friday) was just in my left hand.
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@oreorockstar_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
I seem to be a violent “swinger” and the consistent hard squeezing of the x button when batting lead to chronic tendinitis in my elbow that bothered me most of the last year ( bicep, tricep attachments). I had to reprogram the x button to the R trigger , see a chiropractor, and ultimately take a couple weeks off to get it to calm down ( took me a long time to figure out the root of the pain)
So I definitely agree with the guy above about strengthening those muscles and taking some time away from gaming. It will be there when you get it calmed down.
Good luck.
So you have a Bellinger kind of controller swing. I do like it violent. I do a leg kick in the air when under pressure, so I’ll call it a Justin Turner controller swing.
@TEXAS10PT_PSN sorry not sorry for the Dodger references.
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@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
The amount of time I've spent gaming, due to current events, has increased over the past two years. I had to deal with tendinitis in my fingers last year because of it, but now I face something worse.
My left hand (the one that moves the PCI around when I'm batting, for example) has been experiencing these numbness spells, where the numbness shoots up and down my hand, from my wrist area to my fingers, usually the middle and index fingers. It may have happened to me while gaming, but I also specifically remember it happening to me when I was holding the steering wheel at 12:00 with my left hand and holding my phone up and swiping the screen with my left thumb.
I am a woman in her 20s. Not the usual age demographic for carpal tunnel syndrome. So even though I may have caught it in its early stages, it's really scaring me. I've read it usually starts in one hand before it occurs in both, but I don't know for sure because they tell you different things everywhere you search.
I am a student, and so I must spend a lot of time working on my computer. This is especially true as it is my senior year and I have hard classes that require a lot of writing and, thus, typing on my laptop.
With this post I am reaching out to anyone who also suffers or has suffered from this condition for guidance and advice. What should I do?
It is incredibly foolish to come here seeking medical advice. It is amazing people can lack judgment so severely, but it explains a lot about you and current events. It is truly unfortunate you didn’t learn how to think in college. Go to the doctor. And good luck out there, you’re going to need it.
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@bob_loblaw1984_mlbts said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
The amount of time I've spent gaming, due to current events, has increased over the past two years. I had to deal with tendinitis in my fingers last year because of it, but now I face something worse.
My left hand (the one that moves the PCI around when I'm batting, for example) has been experiencing these numbness spells, where the numbness shoots up and down my hand, from my wrist area to my fingers, usually the middle and index fingers. It may have happened to me while gaming, but I also specifically remember it happening to me when I was holding the steering wheel at 12:00 with my left hand and holding my phone up and swiping the screen with my left thumb.
I am a woman in her 20s. Not the usual age demographic for carpal tunnel syndrome. So even though I may have caught it in its early stages, it's really scaring me. I've read it usually starts in one hand before it occurs in both, but I don't know for sure because they tell you different things everywhere you search.
I am a student, and so I must spend a lot of time working on my computer. This is especially true as it is my senior year and I have hard classes that require a lot of writing and, thus, typing on my laptop.
With this post I am reaching out to anyone who also suffers or has suffered from this condition for guidance and advice. What should I do?
It is incredibly foolish to come here seeking medical advice. It is amazing people can lack judgment so severely, but it explains a lot about you and current events. It is truly unfortunate you didn’t learn how to think in college. Go to the doctor. And good luck out there, you’re going to need it.
No you can't have her lunch money. Any other requests?
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@write-to-shawn_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@oreorockstar_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
I seem to be a violent “swinger” and the consistent hard squeezing of the x button when batting lead to chronic tendinitis in my elbow that bothered me most of the last year ( bicep, tricep attachments). I had to reprogram the x button to the R trigger , see a chiropractor, and ultimately take a couple weeks off to get it to calm down ( took me a long time to figure out the root of the pain)
So I definitely agree with the guy above about strengthening those muscles and taking some time away from gaming. It will be there when you get it calmed down.
Good luck.
So you have a Bellinger kind of controller swing. I do like it violent. I do a leg kick in the air when under pressure, so I’ll call it a Justin Turner controller swing.
@TEXAS10PT_PSN sorry not sorry for the Dodger references.
This made me burst into laughter resulting in my wife looking at me like I am an idiot ( nothing new there)
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@oreorockstar_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@write-to-shawn_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@oreorockstar_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
I seem to be a violent “swinger” and the consistent hard squeezing of the x button when batting lead to chronic tendinitis in my elbow that bothered me most of the last year ( bicep, tricep attachments). I had to reprogram the x button to the R trigger , see a chiropractor, and ultimately take a couple weeks off to get it to calm down ( took me a long time to figure out the root of the pain)
So I definitely agree with the guy above about strengthening those muscles and taking some time away from gaming. It will be there when you get it calmed down.
Good luck.
So you have a Bellinger kind of controller swing. I do like it violent. I do a leg kick in the air when under pressure, so I’ll call it a Justin Turner controller swing.
@TEXAS10PT_PSN sorry not sorry for the Dodger references.
This made me burst into laughter resulting in my wife looking at me like I am an idiot ( nothing new there)
My thumb is bruised on my swing finger. I'm thinking it's like a Sheffield circa 1993 swing.
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@ericulous1_psn said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@bob_loblaw1984_mlbts said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
@ladyswampfox_xbl said in Possible Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Suggestions?:
The amount of time I've spent gaming, due to current events, has increased over the past two years. I had to deal with tendinitis in my fingers last year because of it, but now I face something worse.
My left hand (the one that moves the PCI around when I'm batting, for example) has been experiencing these numbness spells, where the numbness shoots up and down my hand, from my wrist area to my fingers, usually the middle and index fingers. It may have happened to me while gaming, but I also specifically remember it happening to me when I was holding the steering wheel at 12:00 with my left hand and holding my phone up and swiping the screen with my left thumb.
I am a woman in her 20s. Not the usual age demographic for carpal tunnel syndrome. So even though I may have caught it in its early stages, it's really scaring me. I've read it usually starts in one hand before it occurs in both, but I don't know for sure because they tell you different things everywhere you search.
I am a student, and so I must spend a lot of time working on my computer. This is especially true as it is my senior year and I have hard classes that require a lot of writing and, thus, typing on my laptop.
With this post I am reaching out to anyone who also suffers or has suffered from this condition for guidance and advice. What should I do?
It is incredibly foolish to come here seeking medical advice. It is amazing people can lack judgment so severely, but it explains a lot about you and current events. It is truly unfortunate you didn’t learn how to think in college. Go to the doctor. And good luck out there, you’re going to need it.
No you can't have her lunch money. Any other requests?
I’m sure the lunch money was already given to “stop the steal”-ing of it.
And yes, many, but they’re beyond the scope of this forum.
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Learn to hold the stick in a pinch grip as opposed to thumb only.
But as others have said. Medical advice only.
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