CoD4 - forced vacation due to tendinitis

[juneau]

Get well soon WT. I'll miss our friendly banter.

[Karson]

A friend of mind had a similar problem, he switched to a trackball and never looked back. Proper seating position is the most important thing (as I'm sure you know already), find a position that's comfortable and build your desk/chair/computer around it, don't try to make to best of the furniture you already have as a few hundred at CostCo can get you a new desk/chair/etc.

Good luck!

[Zantheus]

Well take care of urself and get better soon...hope to see u back on the field

[-Bar]

Do like I do... Its all in your head.


I actually had a friend in school who broke his leg after having a bike accident and he walked home because he thought the pain was all in his head. :P

[-IRC-MIKE]

ALL of which can be resolved with THERAPY and TIME. Curing your ailments will require both and A GOOD CHIROPRACTOR. My wife is a chiropractor, her mom is a chiropractor, and they deal with this every day. Not only do they deal with it, they have patients walk out of the office everyday that were once deemed to surgery. ANY doctor is going to tell you that surgery is the only way, but if you let it go to far it will be the only way. Doctors want to get you under the knife, Chiropractors will tell you if surgery is the only option. I'd visit a chiropractor ANY DAY for ANY AILMENT before I went to a doctor. The body's central nervous system are the parts of your body that when not in sync, can lead to anything from the common cold, headaches, pain related symptoms, all the way to cancer. Do yourself a favor and schedule a visit to a chiropractor. If it hasn't gone too far or if you haven't let it go for too long, then something can still be done about it other than a surgical procedure and you can live a normal life and play games as much as you'd like.

[-IRC-MIKE]

On a side note. A friend of mine whom I met when I worked for Bellsouth for ten years, worked along side me in the same field. We hired on at the same time and three years before we started working together, he could not walk. The doctors told him that he would never be able to walk again after a TRACTOR ran over him. They told him that the only way that he would be able to live a normal life without pain in a wheelchair is if they did surgery and cut the nerves to relieve the pain.

He was climbing poles with me every day. We were linemen with Bellsouth and we were the go-to guys when nobody else could get it done. He walks as good as I do and you'd never be able to tell that he had problems that he did. He visited my wife's office every day for 2 years and was standing and walking with a crutch in 3 weeks from his first visit.

The doctors had told him that he'd never walk again when he only had a dislocated hip and a rotated pelvis. THEY KNEW IT TOO! That is why doctors don't like Chiropractors. They saved him from spending 75,000 dollars for one operation.. which would have been the first of many to come and I'd be willing to bet you that he would NOT be walking right now if he'd taken their advice.

This is just one of hundreds of miracles that I could go on and on about that I've seen since I've known my wife. Will you be the next?

[WalkinTarget]

Well, more background here ...., the chiropractor has had me in years ago, and it had been a good 6 years since my last scheduled visit for correction which was 6 years ago. But I did blow out my back a year and a half ago, and coincidentally had an appointment that night. I went even tho my wife (with 2 herniated disks) tried to talk me out of it.

Anyhoo, I left and could hardly walk out of the place. When I got home I was in agony and went to the doctors the next day. But we are talking 18+ hours in bed unable to do anything. If its a correction, its one thing, but if its truly something else, such as what I had hit me on that Monday, that chiropractor did much more harm than he did good.

It took a steady diet of muscle relaxants and anti-inflamms to get me upright after that, and my back has never been the same. In a family filled with back problems, I was the one that was going OK until then. The elbow thing had been getting worse, but two weeks ago Monday I blew out my back again sneezing as I hopped off of the sofa, and I ended up taking a steroid pack that my wife has in abundance for her back issues.

So there's more here than initially was posted, but I do know I need to give it a rest and let the inflammation go away. And I totally agree about the chair .. I got a desk chair about 2 years ago that has never been even close to as comfy as my old chair, and I feel a pinch in my neck after only an hour of gaming.

Needle, I sit at a hutch so I can't elevate my elbow. It rests on the arm of the chair. I guess I should haul one of my rigs into OfficeMax and ask them if I can game away for an hour or so. Thats the only way to see how comfy you are ...

[-Bar]

They do make chairs with arm padding.... A little expansive but I come across a nice one every once in a while at Sam's Club that is nice and isn't to expansive.


I think it also depends on the type of material the arm of your chair is made out of. I always find a chair with a wood arm to be extremely hard on the elbows. Same could be said for a really hard plastic. Granted a few years ago I came across a chair with Gel padding which was very easy on the arms.


I know that good office chairs are expansive these days but it might be worth it for you to buy a good one.

[Imp]

Might look at your posture when at the computer. Make sure your chair is the right height etc so you're not putting undue stress on the tendens. Tendenities is a pain (no pun intended). I used to get it in my knee when I was playing hockey. Can be very painful. Look into finding a good anti-inflamitory (Advil or the like).

Hope to see you back soon.

Imp

[-IRC-MIKE]

Yep, and the center of your screen (draw an X from corner to corner and put a dot in the dead center..or better yet, turn on COD4 and while in game, aim down your sights .... where the center of your screen is, is where you will be aiming)

Anyway the center of your screen should be exactly eye-level.

I hate it that you had such a bad experience with chiropractors, but a herniated disk is not completely un-curable. Traction table! It pulls you from head and from feet and stretches your spine like an acordion. The herniated disks will .. after THERAPY.. build the capacity to maintain themselves ... yes.. even with your GIGANTIC head trying to compress them down again

~~mike~~