I may not be posting much for a while.  The elbow pain is bad again.  I pretty much know what's triggering it.  Driving, concertina playing and stress.  Driving while stressed is probably the worse.  I don't have to do it often now Henry's learning to drive, but I need to occasionally.

The unemployment thing is the biggest stressor by far.  We're ( Read more... )

Went for a lovely walk along the river close to Wimborne.  Starting by Eye Bridge is a lovely walk along the bank.  This is what I pay my National Trust membership for every year.  I rarely visit the houses, I could do the walk for free, but I'm happy knowing that some of my membership is helping the National Trust maintain these lovely areas of ( Read more... )

The elbow is still sore (2 1/2 months now), but I know I'm gaining a bit.  I can tie shoelaces, do up a zip, pull up the quilt on the bed and other things that have been impossible at various other times.  I'm able to do some concertina playing.  I can even do poi for a couple of minutes as long as I'm careful about which moves I try and don't do ( Read more... )

I think I'm starting to defeat the tennis elbow, so I'm going to record here what's working, so that I'll be able to look back to it in the future if I get a recurrence.  We're not totally there yet, but there's a significant reduction in pain levels since two weeks ago.  I'm now starting to try and rebuild the muscles that have vanished in the two ( Read more... )

Still having problems with the tennis elbow, but the physio gave me some stretches to do that seem to be helping, so fingers crossed.

I really really need my concertina-playing abilities back again.

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I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that either the doctor mis-diagnosed what was wrong with my elbow, or that millions of people are suffering when there is treatment that will help.

On reading the NHS site, I noticed that physiotherapy was one of the possible treatments.

So, I decided to run through all the exercises I do for my neck, shoulder and ( Read more... )

I've got tennis elbow in my left elbow and it's quite painful ( Read more... )