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    trigger finger

    in General Discussion

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    9 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said:

    I have this in my left ring finger. I've had it for years and at one point it was fully locked towards my palm.

     

    I'll respectfully disagree with @NancyJohnson slightly regarding steroids being nonsense. I've had steroid injections twice, once when it was fully locked and another lot mid-physio. The injection hurt like a bar steward. No numbing, just a big a$$ needle straight into the A1 area with lots of poking about to go with it. As uncomfortable as it was, it unlocked it quickly and put me back to about 80% within days. I followed that up with physio (radio therapy) and another round of steroid injections. The problem with the jabs is, which is where @NancyJohnson is kind of right, is that you can't keep having them or you'll end up with a whole load of different issues to bother you.

     

    That said, the jabs + physio have kept it at bay. No lock-ups since. The finger is still very stiff in the morning, but it loosens up very quickly. I'm not getting it in the ring finger of my right hand, but so far no worse than the left is at the moment. I fully accept that this is just my experience and everyone is different, so it may not be the same for you.

     

    One thing you might want to try is getting a splint for your finger so it's kept straight at night. My physio made me one and it's great.

     

    Thanks.  I will see about a splint.

    trigger finger

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    7 hours ago, Boodang said:

    When you play, at what angle is your wrist? Playing with a straight wrist will at least stop any further damage. Resting your forearm on the bass body is usually the culprit for a bad wrist angle.

     

    Thanks for this.  I tend to play mostly with my thumb nowadays, but I'll pay attention to the angle.

    trigger finger

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    27 minutes ago, gjones said:

    I had the same thing. I now tape the finger up at night to stop me curling my hand into a fist. It seems to have done the trick and I now have no more trigger finger.

     

    Hope yours has not got any worse.

     

    Thanks.  It's maybe a little bit worse, but nothing major.

    Lumped strings - an experiment

    in Accessories and Misc

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    1 hour ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

    Surely this is not changing the length of the string but changing the mass. I wonder whether it would have the same effect when the additional mass is added to the string behind the bridge saddle?

     

    I think it might do both, depending on how tight the winding is.

     

    And, good question!

    Lumped strings - an experiment

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    Posted · Edited by alyctes


    Lowering the pitch seems weird... surely you'd be shortening the effective length of the string?  That ought to raise the pitch, surely?

     

    The pitch wavering makes sense, because the free-floating solder coil would move and that would change the string length.

     

    Did it change the tone of the note?  I think it might make it softer, more fretless-ish?

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