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clustiere
Trad climber
phoenix ,az
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 20, 2003 - 02:25am PT
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Ok, once again I have injured myself. This injury includes pain in the wrist and forearm (with the palm facing up on my left arm. I was wondering if anybody else has suffered from such pain, it seems to subside now after a few (three) days off. Yetr I can feel it when (an donly when) I stick out my middle finger, bend the last joint and pull. The pain appears to be present from a strain I thought that I recieved this early fall from a continious left open handed dyno). Anywho I was going to take Dec-Feb off from climbing as I have already made TG plans. Any advice or experience from others?
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Apocalypsenow
Trad climber
Cali
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Nov 20, 2003 - 10:54am PT
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Sounds like constipation. Just keep pulling, things will free up.
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Donny Quijote
Sport climber
Boulder F'in CO
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Nov 20, 2003 - 12:32pm PT
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...they'll come home and find you treating your body like it was an amuuuuusement park!!
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Lambone
Ice climber
Ashland, Or
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Nov 20, 2003 - 06:10pm PT
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"What are you, NEW?"
...stop climbing dude, otherwise it will never go away...and, train your left hand in the meantime...
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NeverSurfaced
Trad climber
Sputnik
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Nov 20, 2003 - 06:36pm PT
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"What are you, NEW?"
Ha ha.
I had a girlfriend that used to throw that one down all the time. Thanks for the flashback
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malabarista
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 20, 2003 - 07:42pm PT
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Might be a pinched nerve. I had one after I came down from El Cap last month -couldn't even feel it at the time since just about everything hurt anyway. I had pain in the wrist area and my 3rd and 4th fingers were numb. It took a couple of weeks to heal, and I wore a wrist brace to keep from moving it too much.
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David Nelson
climber
San Francisco
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Nov 20, 2003 - 08:01pm PT
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I am an orthopedic hand surgeon,sometime climber (jugged up the Nose this past summer) and former climbing instructor (Yosemite and Lover's Leap) in the 1970's. If your hand is important to you, and the problem does not resolve within a short period of time, you owe it to yourself to see a hand surgeon. You need a diagnosis before you can plan out treatment: get some beta, dude. A hand surgeon is the best-qualified person to evaluate your hand, make a diagnosis, and recomment treatment. They do a lot more than just operate! You can find one at http://www.assh.org, and then use the "find a hand surgeon" utility. (I am on the website committee for the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, the ASSH, and helped to design parts of the site. OK, I am biased, but it is a good way to find a qualified hand surgeon in your area.)
I won't hazard a guess as to your diagnosis, but pulley ruptures are the classic climbing injury, usually from overtraining. Falls that you hardly remember can cause ligament injuries that become evident over time. As I said, if your hands are important to you, see a qualifed hand surgeon.
David Nelson, MD
http://www.DavidLNelson.MD
(PS: I am not trolling for patients. I am up to my eyeballs in alligators and fully booked into January!)
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clustiere
Trad climber
phoenix ,az
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2003 - 12:04am PT
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Thanks
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