Posted by: vojislav ®
06/20/2009, 09:17:39
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Hi Everybody
I am a classicall guitarist and I suffer from fd in my right hand for 22 years now!
Since,fortunately,I compose and play other kinds of music as well I've managed to stay in music so far,even thou initially,I went trough hell (wrong therapies,surgery!,etc).Now I'm back into classical guitar again and I even play some concerts in a duo.It may sound strange but I was always managing to play somehow with problems ranging from mild(with a lot of compensation),to the instances where I would end up a concert playing almost only with thumb and an index finger.I was never officialy diagnosed with an fd but from what I hear from others and read in the forum and elsewhere there is no doubt that it is a fd.It started in march 1987 while I was preparing a competition as pain in the hand and slight lack of coordination in the ring and middle finger.I panicked went to the neurologist and have been treated for a "carpal tunnel" with an injection and this and that diagnosis they could come up with.Than in july,I had an important concert and,as if by miracle,my hand was ok,I played a perfect concert but under a lot of stress and that was it!I never was able to play normally again.When I play my ring and small finger curle and middle finger tends to go opposite direction.The middle finger feels clumsy and I also have a feeling of numbness in it most of the time even when not playing.Index-Middle playing alternately work good almost always(with ring curling up),Index-Ring much worse and Middle-Ring is at times almost impossible.Instinctually I felt that immobilising ring or small finger helps and maybe an index too and I tried several funny devices as well as taping the fingers but I was never really patient to practise slowly so it didn't help much.Than I heard about Candia and splints.I tried to find out what splints are and how they actually look and work but couldn't find much.I heard about braces too.Than in a letter on this forum I read about wine-corks and that was first practical information and I intend to try it.
I would be immensly grateful if someone would comment on my problem and particularly explain me what splints are,how they look and work and what they can be made from.The braces also.Is there a photography of a splint?
Currently I live in Belgrade and there is no neurologist her,known to me,that would deal with a musician fd.
Thanks for any help and good lack to everyoneVojislav
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