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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ( CTS ) Info
This post is to highlight and relieve concerns over Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS )
There are many mis-understood things about CTS, and as one of the more frequent topics raised here on TB there seems to be many misconceptions about it....so here is a simple definitive guide to what we know and understand and what options are available to treat it....and help prevent it.
We cannot stop or prevent CTS as such, because it is an anatomical problem related to life and our use of the hands based on the mechanics of hand design,( for the use of a better word), and the growing uses we now use them for in a modern world for work and leisure.
Our hands evolved their use over thousands apon thousands of years, the last twenty years has seen that use explode, and as such evolution cannot catch up to refine the hands to account for it and never will.
The golden rule is " mis-use and over use are the main source of problems" so identify your own areas that may present or promote problems and deal with them accordingly.
Muscles only pull, the work in opposite pairs, as one shortens the opposite one lengthens. So in your hands when you close your fingers they are pulled closed, when you open them they are pulled open. This means that the two opposite muscle groups work together, when one shortens as in to pull the finger in, the other side must lengthen to allow it, they must also both create "a muscle tension" between the two to find and hold the correct position for the finger use.
This is where problems occur because in playing only one set of muscles really gets targeted in small limited motion, as we always hear and read about "economy of motion". This means a constant muscle tension is used so the hand is never relaxed as such. This is why warming up and stretches pay big dividends, they re-introduce a full range of motion again and help remove un - wanted or un-used muscle tension.....again muscle tension is needed for movement, what we do not need is un-necessary muscle tension....after all with out muscle tension in your body for example, you would not stand up, you would just fall over. But sleep and rest relieve and help remove that tension....as does exercise and stretching when awake.
So what is CTS?
The link below explains it in simple detail better than words alone. Info starts at .40 secs.
In the next link below you will see a clear vision of the mechanics involved.
Please do not worry about the anatomical names used, but watch and observe the motion.
You will notice, and hopefully realise, that many of the motions used can be found in playing Bass Guitar.
Please note these timings/
.50 the muscle groups involved and the movements they promote, it is about closing the hand, so they move the fingers towards the strings.
2.00 the muscle groups than open you fingers, so lift them away from the strings.
2.55 the movement of turning the forearms is called pronation and supination , as players we use this movement to set our hands to the instrument ( depending on whether left or right handed the movements are just swapped over) we have to rotate our hand to be " palm up" or "palm down" to play the instrument.
This rotation is movement away from what is regarded as the "neutral position" for the palms.
The palms are said to be neutral when the face they face the thighs, they may be looking slightly back depending on the person. So assume when you play you have had to use "Muscle Tension" to move your hands in to a playing position.
4.25 an explanation of what can help develop CTS.
Again please note that the movement shown is the same movement used to play.
Our hands do not differentiate between movement, it is our brain that justifies that, so even though we use the same motion our brain tells us it is for typing, playing piano, using a remote control, etc....or playing a bass.
In playing bass when learning or practicing it is easy to over use or mis-use the hands by playing for to long because the task is involved and we can justify it as needing to be done to improve. Remember our hand are in a constant state of muscle tension, so an injury is easy to do, especially if over used as the hand will become tired and that will make injury more likely.
Stretches and desired motions
In the link below are the 3 basic stretches Bass Players should use for their hands. These stretches help counter the use of the Flexor groups and help exercise the Extensors groups. The Extensors are a very underused group as no tasks we do really require us to fully extend of fingers in daily life, but we are always hold, grabbing, and manipulating with the hands.
As for relief, the above exercises will help, also the basic advice is to rest the hand, that is number one.
Then ice can be used ( not direct to the skin, but wrapped in a cloth or towel ), anti imflamatories, splints to imobalize the wrist and hand are common place....but make sure you get it diagnosed...there are many reasons other than CTS as to why you may be presenting the symptoms, so get them check out by a qualified Medical Practitioner to determine the exact cause of your problem.
Medical Procedures
In the links below are the two current operation procedures for relieving CTS symptoms.
The first is Endoscopic Surgery ( ECTR )which is less intrusive and a very modern way to deal with it.
The second is the Open Surgery which is the one many fear having. Of the two of you are thinking about surgery ask about the Endoscopic procedure and state a preference for it.
In many cases you may have to ask for it or even demand it as your choosing preference.
When Health Insurance companies foot the bill they look at initial cost, so they may push towards the open surgery, but in the long run the Endoscopic get the patient back working and using the hand faster with less complication than open surgery. No medical operation is fully risk free, but the endoscopic is less intrusive, so has a better and faster recovery chance.
Please understand you can accept a medical opinion/diagnosis or not, ask for or get a second opinion if you have any doubts at all..even a third opinion if you think it warrants it.
Please note if you are squeamish, then the next two links are not for you, they show operations in detail. They are posted so you can judge for yourself the worth of each, or if you are to have one it is not the end of the world....do not suffer because you do not know the facts....ask your GP or doctor.
Open surgery.
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Apologies to all that found the links did not work, problem hopefully repaired.
It was an IOS6 problem as i believe Apple and Google have not resolved issues between the two platforms...for some reason IOS6 and Safari does not recognise certain google applications which you tuble is one of. The link repairs were done with Windows, so hopefully they work on all platforms and operating systems now.
Drop me a message if there are any problems...the links should come straight up so hit the play button so start.
Again sorry for the problem.
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LOL took me a while to sus out where the thread had gone till I noticed it had been stickied. I would like to add that anyone should feel free to post and CTS related experiences on this thread, how it affected them, and how it was resolved so others see and realise it is more common than they think and just not among bass players.
The info is what I consider to be the "meat" of such a physical and emotional condition. Yes it is emotional to musicians because it threatens to take away a skill many have invested in, it could rob them of an artistic output and artistic licence to create........that fear drives some strong emotions to deny the presence of CTS or to continue and it will fix itself.
The stretches target the main areas, so those three exercises will cover the groups most likely to be affected by CTS. Yes there are many more stretches, but the three in the video are by far the best for targeting the groups that can promote the on-set of CTS problems. The other ideas for exercises just promote the idea of a healthy balanced hand.
There are many other conditions that can promote similar symptoms to CTS, but rather than muddy or cloud the waters, I left them out, and again, they can be dealt with in the thread if they are raised.
I would like to thank Jaconot for a previous thread,
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Stretches to help Avoid it or Ease it
and the discussions we had, which prompted me to post this thread. Part of the reason I did not do one earlier was because all the info, reports, medical trials etc, I have on the subject needed to be correlated into a simple, usable, and understandable article. Part of the problem is putting info out there, can create as many problems as those it is looking to solve.
One such example is the ECTR Surgery V Open Surgery, it is becoming more accepted that the ECTR, all though not widely available or known about, is the better option of the two for the patient. But when cost becomes a factor, then the provider may not invest in the skills and technology to provide it, if to them Open Surgery gives the same results for them.
Those results are the patient leaves with the problem addressed, the same as they would if ECTR was used. For the surgical side effectively stops when the patient leaves the operating table ( apart for frequent returns to check the healing process.
This may be done by the surgeon than done the work, the GP or doctor that referred the work, or an insurance assessor for the provider that financed the surgery ).
As for the recovery or any return of use, and a return to work, this is not a concern to a surgical team, but maybe for the company covering the over all cost and loss.
It can be viewed that the longer recovery time takes, the more the cost to cover that period till a return to work happens becomes more expensive in the whole time-frame that is covered.
So in short an insurance company may view Open Surgery the best option over ECTR Surgery because the initial cost can be taken into account, but because the length of recovery time cannot be accounted for, any final expence and cost cannot be truely budgeted or accounted for, because any individual case can have variables due to complication or un-foreseen circumstances.
Yes of course the same can be said for ECTR, but because it is less intrusive, the healing process is faster so those problems that would present themselves....do so earlier, so be delt with earlier and faster, so minimising complications.
I think you get the idea.....the less intrusive the surgery the better for the patient in general is the rule.
So if not offered as an option ask for it, and if refused ask why, and see if it is based on budget rather than patient preference. You can get a second or third opinion on a diagnosis, you can ask for references and testimonials on doctors or proceedures so you can best judge any decision you make. Ask question and learn to understand what is on offer and what your options are..ask questions.
In the UK for example GPs in the NHS cannot reccomend private healthcare options as it is seen as a clash of interests. One example of this was when i needed some Physio on my back, i was told it would be at least 6 weeks before i could be put on a patient list to get a consultation let alone any treatment.
When i asked about private treatment i got to see a Physio the next morning....but i paid for it.
The cost was minimal in the scheme of things as i got back to earning money within days rather than months....so ask questions.
All the info is based on currently what we know and understand, so if anyone has links or info that can enhance this knowledge please post it with links, the idea of this thread is not to suffer the condition and its related problems, but face it head on and get relief...remember it has an emotional drain on the body as well as a physical one.
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Our hands evolved their use over thousands apon thousands of years,
the last twenty years has seen that use explode
, and as such evolution cannot catch up to refine the hands to account for it and never will.
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Just a joke, this post was long awaited here at TB and it deserved a sticky, very insightful.
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Take good care of your hands!
if you're having issues with your hands / wrists read my post # 111 in this stickied thread in the misc, section
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Fergie Fulton, ever the
You always give us something good and helpful to think about (and keep some of us out of DEEP trouble
I did
watch the medical operations videos
, but enjoyed the YouTube demo of your hand stretches. It's getting cold now where I live, and after working my way through your stretches/exercises my hands felt entirely relaxed (and tired
), but more importantly, they became quite
. A clear indication that blood flow is increased, and that's
Three things I'd like to add:
Several years ago I read that
front-of-hand and back-of-hand muscle exertion is important in avoiding CTS. Directly in line with the points you make, Fergie, the idea is that we're always grasping objects, which contracts the muscles in the
of the hand, BUT...we almost never do anything that aggressively opens the hand fully, thereby contracting the muscles of the
of the hand.
The simple suggestion was: Bring all five fingertips together (so your hand forms a shape like the head of a bird) and put a relatively strong
rubberband ("elastic" for you in the UK)
around the fingers, near the fingernails. Then open your hand, moving all your fingers out, away from one another and away from the center. The back-of-hand muscles work against the rubber band and after a few sets of 10, you'll really feel it.
I'm a
bassist, and I still practice in the first 5 postions a lot (frets 1-5). I still have to "look" a lot, too, so my head is constantly twisted way off to the left...and my left shoulder gets seriously trashed.
After an hour of practice, I usually go to the Emergency Room for a couple of X-rays...
So here's a
YouTube vid on how to prevent CTS in an office work environment
(cute girl, too). The video suggests that
the pain felt in your
nerve may actually start as far away as your
, and demonstrates simple stretches for the other upper-body sites where "nerve entrapments" can occur:
a) Pectoralis Minor (chest muscle at front of shoulder)
b) Scalene Muscle (muscle from side of neck to top of shoulder)
c) Neck Flexor Muscle (stretch by forcing your head/chin directly backward)
d) Nerve Flossing - MIGHT HELP COUNTERACT MY NOOBISH "PRACTICE INJURIES" (watch the vid, you'll see).
And like Fergie says, the closer your hands are to their
resting positions, the better off you'll be. I find the following to work well for me (a right-handed bassist):
a) Holding your
left elbow away from your body
helps keep the left/fretting hand in a more natural position relative to wrist and forearm. And raising the headstock up a bit for more neck angle increases the benefit.
Rotating the bass toward your right
(so the headstock is not pointing straight out to the left, but is instead pointing out in front of you more) helps keep the right hand in a more natural position.
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The simple suggestion was: Bring all five fingertips together (so your hand forms a shape like the head of a bird) and put a relatively strong
rubberband ("elastic" for you in the UK)
around the fingers, near the fingernails. Then open your hand, moving all your fingers out, away from one another and away from the center. The back-of-hand muscles work against the rubber band and after a few sets of 10, you'll really feel it.
This is one of the most simple and effective exercises you can use.
I posted on this concept a long time ago here on TB about the use of elastic bands to exercise the hand and more over...how to use them correctly. So I will quickly re- cap it again.
Elastic bands come in different grades that relate to there thickness, length, and width. The idea is to start with loose then work up to a resonable tension..then stop. The idea is not to keep on moving to more resistance, but find your own resistance level then use that for ever.
The resistance is just part of it, not all of it. Get this part wrong and rather than un-doing tension, you are re-introducing it. We have to remember it is the action that is important not the resistance, the use of the elastic bands introduces a very important muscle movement which is to relax the hand.
It is the elastic band that closes the fingers, not the Flexors. So without an elastic band we pull open with the Extentors, and pull close with the Flexors, two very distinct actions using a balanced muscle tension.
But with the elastic band in place we pull open with the Flexors, then relax the hand and allow the tension in the elastic band to close the hand. Then open the finger again and repeat for however you feel necessary. Watch out that the finger use is evenly spread, do not allow the thumb to dominate the stretching, in other words ensure that the thumb is not just stretching the elastic band against the combined resistance of the fingers.
Make sure that the fingers move away from the thumb as well, and it is not the thumb moving away from the fingers that is stretching the elastic again this will cause problems at the base of the thumb...so look very carefully at the action you use.
The elastic band should negate the use of Flexor action, since this is the one we are trying to balance against the under use of Extensors, to allow a more balanced exercise of the hand.
In the UK the red elastic bands you find on the street, discarded by postmen, are ideal in size and resistance....and are free.
From my point of view and personal situation, I have used many different exercises to my hands, as well as develop exercises to help in many areas of playing, as well as apparatus, with in-sight from some of the leading medical specialist in the UK.
So very quickly here is part of my story and how a freak accident gave more insight about the body mechanics and medical knowledge I have.
I am not a registered medical anything, all I have is over 30 years experience, study, reading and private research in to such matters, tied to the 40+ years I have been playing.
Being a musician, especially on the road, is travel intensive, so back then before iPods, Internet, etc. we read books, and the books I read were based on anatomy, physiology and health, APH for short. A subject introduced to me in school and one that stayed with me to this day
My situation came about as a result of a car accident in which I broke my neck and in the years of recovery and re-habilitation.
My situation was way beyond CTS, my right arm was paralysed, and my left arm weakened. This was due to the nerve damage in my neck robbing my muscles of stimulation, and without stimulation muscles lose, elasticity, mass etc.
But because of what I do and the information, experience and knowledge I had..I knew I could fix it to a degree of basic use if the nerve damage could be addressed.
So as the swelling in my neck started to reduce after 5-6 weeks so the sensation returned to my fingers, and then the hard and long road to developing the hands again begun.
Here I am over four years later, playing teaching, writing etc again, but in a very managed capacity. The nerve damage I have is permanent, but manageable because I understand its parameters. I do not have the skills I used to have, but I now use the skills I do have, I drew a line under the old playing me, and started again on the new playing me to make the most of what I get back. That was a big mental approach that helped speed my recovery because I was being positive about my situation, not negative, resentfully, self pitying...but positive because not only did I survive, but I have got arm and body use many crave but will never have because their injuries were worse than mine from the same crash situations. ( please note, lucky for me I was a passenger, asleep in the back seat after a show returning home in the early hours of the morning...I knew nothing of it till days after words and I was sort of concious enough to be told of it )
To cut a long story short one of the devices I "developed" was this thing in the pictures below.
Now the device looks scary, but its purpose was to exercise the hand and the hand only and was used lying down, as I was at the time, and was constantly return to, in my recovery. You can see the sweat mark on it where my forearm lay in using it. But once it served its purpose I stopped using it, there is no real benefit in continuing it ( I switched to a bucket of silversand, which is fine sand,it my fingers together, pushed it into the sand, then opened them...the weight of the sand now provided the resistance ) as it had, and was only beneficial for the use.
What I needed was a way to move my fingers without activating other muscle groups in my arm.
This was simply because when my upper arm moved the interconnecting muscle/nerve process put pressure directly on the area where I had the nerve damage, this in turn caused the nerve to compress and the hand shut down again. So I had to find away in which I could lie back, only use my lower arm (forearm, hands and fingers) in isolation. As I am lying on my back looking at the ceiling I cannot see what is happening, and as I cannot feel my fingers I cannot be sure anything is happening.
So I used a mirror to see my hand, and the different colour elastic bands have me a visual reference to what finger should be responding and what fingers should not. Now the colours were a very important part of it,un-known to me at the time, as I found out later on from a neuro-surgeon.
The colours helped reinforce my brain with a visual reference of what I was doing. The fact was brain now had another reference in as much as, if I cannot feel the finger to move, it could see it. The tied association of colour was just another sub-conscious layer being used as my brain tried to make sense of why things are not responding.
Again to cut a long story short, I used the same idea to learn to play again. My problem now was to work out "how can I play an instrument I cannot feel"?
This is where the similarities to CTS start.
For me an operation to free the nerve was looked at, through MRI and CTS scans, deep nerve condition test, and action reflex tests. Because my neck was broken in the C7 area of the spine ( this is where the main nerve branch leaves the spinal column, (central nervous system) to become part of the Peripheral nervous system, which serves the upper limb amongst other things) an operation to try and relieve was ruled out because it was right on my spinal cord.
As I was making such a great recovery, most of it under my own guidance, the general opinion was that because I have movement of source, any operation runs the risk of doing more damage than good if it has complications.
Now this is part of the problem that applies to CTS as well, the doctors and medical team were not there to help me play guitar, they were there to see of they could improve or help the recovery to become stable. As far as the were concerned I had movement of sort, and that was good enough, because the sort of movement I had was way beyond the expectations of all, and was exceeding the prediction of the medical reports expectations. So I had to get other opinions, seek out new advice, till I got the full picture that, yes they all agree that an operation may not be any more beneficial than time itself.....I was healing, so let it continue and see how far that goes.
So CTS sufferers may find a similar thought process, in as much as it is about the hand not its use. In this day and age an insurance company may view that because you play and instrument then you are not covered...that is may do.
The insurance company that commissioned my medical reports for an operation had two options, one was a keyhole option to go in and try and scrape off some of the bone thickening around the fracture to see if that made an improvement. ( where the nerve passed though the bone, the fact in repairing itself the actual new bone material had closed the opening the nerve used so that was contributing to the problems I was dealing with ) Or a full open, go in through the front of my neck, move the windpipe, oesophagus, a few spinal discs etc, to come at the problem with my spinal cord to the back of the area. Rather than risk trying to pass it or work without to the front of the operation area.
Due to costings the keyhole was ruled out because if they were to operate it would be only once and they would take the option that best suited them.....NOT ME. It seems the have a legal right to base treatment on costings to them, if they need to, rather than any costing to address the full outlying problems created by the injury. They then ruled out any medical procedure.
So if you suffer CTS symptoms, you may have to consider not playing till it gets better, then understand and mange your life to keep its interference in it to a minimal. An operation is an option, and a good option if it fits the criteria regarding the current state of the injury.
It's about how bad the damage is and whether it is to late for any treatment to be effective. It is also about your attitude to deal with what is needed, at some point if you do not make the decision to stop playing and rest, your body will do it for you and not give you that option.
CTS is not the end of the world, it is a warning shot for you to modify your hand use, change or adapt to minimise its intrusion on your life.
Not all tingles in the hand are CTS, but if you never get it checked out, if you keep putting it off, then you will never know what the problem really is, if it can be treated, or if what you do to get round it, actually makes it worse not better. A bit of a long post, but hopefully if you read that I got passed my problems, then if you suffer CTS it is not the end of the world if you are prepared to do what is needed for the sake of your hands, rather than any playing situation.....after all without your hand use any playing situation no longer becomes an issue, because your body has made the 'decision' for you and you no longer have any say in it.
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I had it in both wrists...
had open surgery for it about 16 years ago (endoscopic surgery was not an option then) and it's been GREAT ever since.
took me about a full year to get my full hand strength back.
I know a guy that had the endoscopic surgery for CTS about 6 years ago and he was playing bass with no problems about six weeks later!
get the surgery if you can.
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I had CTS in both hands and had to have surgery on my left hand as it got so bad i could not even hold a fork when eating. the strange thing was after 8 week my left hand was fine an i only ever get a little numness and tinging in my right hand now.
again i would recomend Surgery if its really giving you a lot of bother as it made a huge diffrence to me andf that was almost 20 years ago.
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Endoscopic Release available on NHS
Just a quick up-date for any UK sufferers, both forms of release surgery are available on the NHS, via the GP consultation and referal services.
According to the specialist i spoke to over the weekend (and who put me onto the link), Endoscopic surgery (keyhole) is now being recognised as a better option to use, where available, as it leads to less complications and after care via out patients services.
Notice the wording now states,
Keyhole surgery usually has a slightly quicker recovery time than open surgery and may cause less scarring and tenderness. There are no long-term differences in the outcomes of the two approaches.
I have posted the NHS page for anyone looking for more info.
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I have CTS in both wrists and had to put my bass down. I am lucky that nerve study showed no nerve damage. Going to see a surgeon, who has a really good track record with the endoscopic procedure.
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yup carpal tunnel is no joke, i thought id never get it and just recently about a few weeks ive developed it, and its caused me to no longer be able to play as well with my fingers anymore, it actually caused me to start taking pick playing seriously and properly learn that technique, hopefuly it goes away but from what ive read it can or cannot depending on severity. This is a no joke condition. Taking pain relivers helps but the numbness and almost paralyzing feeling i get when playing with my fingers now is scary. i hope it goes away.
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yup carpal tunnel is no joke, i thought id never get it and just recently about a few weeks ive developed it, and its caused me to no longer be able to play as well with my fingers anymore, it actually caused me to start taking pick playing seriously and properly learn that technique, hopefuly it goes away but from what ive read it can or cannot depending on severity. This is a no joke condition. Taking pain relivers helps but the numbness and almost paralyzing feeling i get when playing with my fingers now is scary. i hope it goes away.
CTS can be relieved through surgeries, managment or both depending not so much on the severities but the underlying causes.
CTS is a flaw in our anatomy because the hand use we have now could never ever have been accounted for in its design and development...this is an on-going development.
So the surgery will address the physical symptoms at source, and managment well help reduce the impact of the use.
Take out any ideas that this is a physical limitation, what it is, is a physical variation, you have to change how you play, what you play, and when you play.
So look honestly at what you do in life with your hands and adress that use.
For example do you really need to practice the length of time you do?
Can you reduce it the physical side of it, and therefore reduce the hand use?
Do you use a keyboard of some sort?
Are you set up correct for it?
When driving are you gripping the wheel, holding the wheel, or touching the wheel. If touching the wheel you can control it using the hand open rather than closed in a gripping or holding fashion.
So many ways to manage our hands use if we examine there use.
We can suffer many neuropathies for a number of reasons at various times in our lives, from illness or disease that are temporary and contribute to any weakness we may have or are developing.
The problem with a neuropathy is it is an underlying cause, a secondary or referred symptom, so where we feel the effects is not the area of cause.
First stop is get a diagnosis, see a medical doctor, and get the condition diagnosed. Then look at your options, surgery is a good option in the right case using the right procedure, and look management to reduce the effects the hand use has on the Carpal Tunnel area in the hand.
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The gliding technique works for elbow too, as I have the same problem there (tennis elbow).
With your arm out straight and to your side, palm up. Namely the wrist curls down and up, while opening fingers with your hand down, closing as your wrist comes up. This glides thru the elbow joint.
Next curl your forearm in the same manner, wrist curling down on arm extension, wrist curling up with your arm curl. (Like you are lifting weights for your bicep, but empty handed)
In my case, all my fingers go numb and I drop stuff, not awesome. These were Dr recommended exercises
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
After seeing all the info on here I can see there are several experts on the subject in this thread. I'm not trying to run anyone's knowledge down. Just speaking from experience.
I've been playing bass a lot for 48 years and I developed CTS in both hands from I assume playing my bass up high with a short strap which worked best for me. I had the surgery on both hands in 1990 and I was scheduled for the endoscopic surgery from one of the pioneers of that method. Just prior to the surgery the endo cutters were recalled by the manufacturer so I had to go with the open method from the same hand surgeon. He stated that he could do a better job with the open method because he could see better. The scars were 1/4" long, right in the crease of my palms and I defy anyone to find them today. The band leader made me come back to work 3 weeks (recovery time supposed to be 6 weeks per hand) after the second hand was done because he thought my replacement sucked. I was a little sore but did fine.
The moral of the story is the endo method is good and quick but don't be scared of the traditional method if you can find a good cutter. Go to a "Hand Specialist" not just an ortho Doc and don't play your bass with the strap too high. I lowered my strap a couple of notches (still higher than many play) and the rest is history.
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I had my bilateral endoscopic surgery 39 days ago and still have a lot of pain. My Dr. said the nerves are irritated from the surgery and it may take a while. He said it could be 3 -6 months, as everyone heals in a different time frame. Also, I am almost 67. I am on some general pain pills, one that is for nerve pain and one that is suppose to work on nerve inflammation. A few days ago I was wondering if I can ever pickup a bass again, which is a rather depressing thought. All I can do is hope for the best.
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i had both wrists done over three months ago two weeks apart
i got cut open.
my right hand is so much better.
my left hand is still swollen every day and i worry about it.
forgive my language but f*****g CTS took away at least 3 years of my life and i am still not there.
listen to your bodies-they will tell you when it isn`t right.
do not ignore it.
if you're gonna chase tone, you better wear good shoes-she runs faster than you and you won't catch her.
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text: International Society of Automation News Release Twin Cities Section of ISA presents "Best Use of Automation" award in conjunction with national engineering competitionResearch Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA (31 January 2013)— The Twin Cities (Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota) Section of the International Society of Automation (ISA) on 19 January 2013 presented a "Best Use of Automation" award to a Lino Lakes, Minnesota middle school in conjunction with a national engineering competition. For the second year in a row, the Twin Cities Section of ISA presented the award at a regional event of the Future City Competition, a national, project-based learning experience where students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades imagine, design, and build cities of the future. The annual Future City Competition is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation, a consortium of professional and technical societies and major US corporations. The foundation is focused on helping to remove social, education and economic barriers that may deter young students from engineering and technology education and careers. Out of the more than 35,000 students from 1,300 middle schools participating in this year's competition, regional winners will vie for national awards at the event finals, which will be held 15-20 February 2013--coinciding with National Engineers Week, 17-23 February 2013. Founded in 1951, Engineers Week is among the oldest of America's professional outreach efforts. "All of us within ISA's Twin Cities Section are excited to sponsor this award, which we hope will help inspire young students to explore what I believe is the best career field in the world," says Peter Baker, CAP, CTech, an instrumentation and automation consultant who spearheaded the Twin Cities Section's award sponsorship. "We feel strongly that it is our responsibility to help raise awareness among young people of the value and potential of automation and engineering careers. As they say, 'A rising tide lifts all boats.'" A four-member team of students from Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes, located just outside of Minneapolis, received the ISA section's automation award for incorporating the best and most creative use of instrumentation and automationin its Future City Competition building design project. To compete for the award, school teams worked with mentors to plan their cities using SimCity™ 4 Deluxe software; researched and wrote solutions to engineering challenges; built tabletop scale models with recycled materials; and presented their ideas for judging. Assisting Baker in the sponsorship, mentoring, and judging effort were ISA members Andy Mobley, CAP,PE,PMP, and Kim Hovey, CAP, PE. The four-member team of students from Centennial Middle School in Lino Lakes, Minnesota received the "Best Use of Automation" award from the Twin Cities Section of the International Society of Automation (ISA). From left to right, standing behind their award entry, are: Neo Canniff, Kennan LeJuene, Evan Nelsen, and Espen Fredrick. About ISAFounded in 1945, the International Society of Automation (www.isa.org) is a leading, global, nonprofit organization that is setting the standard for automation by helping over 30,000 worldwide members and other professionals solve difficult technical problems, while enhancing their leadership and personal career capabilities. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, ISA develops standards; certifies industry professionals; provides education and training; publishes books and technical articles; and hosts conferences and exhibitions for automation professionals. ISA is the founding sponsor of The Automation Federation (www.automationfederation.org). |


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London Irish signed utility back, Myles Dorrian, on a two year deal from Exeter Chiefs.
The Australian is able to play fly half, centre or full back. The 30-year-old made nine appearances for Exeter during his time at the club.
The agile back was born in Sydney, Australia where he spent time with both the Brumbies and Waratahs before making the trip across to Europe.
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In the video below, Jacqueline Boytim explains how spectrophotometers historically have been used by chemists to understand the structure of atoms.
Maurice Wilkins with X-ray crystallographic equipment about 1954. Courtesy King's College London and Horace Freeland Judson.
In 1962 James Watson (b. 1928), Francis Crick (1916–2004), and Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004) jointly received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their 1953 determination of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Because the Nobel Prize can be awarded only to the living, Wilkins's colleague Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958), who died of cancer at the age of 37, could not be honored.
The molecule that is the basis for heredity, DNA, contains the patterns for constructing proteins in the body, including the various enzymes. A new understanding of heredity and hereditary disease was possible once it was determined that DNA consists of two chains twisted around each other, or double helixes, of alternating phosphate and sugar groups, and that the two chains are held together by hydrogen bonds between pairs of organic bases—adenine (A) with thymine (T), and guanine (G) with cytosine (C). Modern biotechnology also has its basis in the structural knowledge of DNA—in this case the scientist's ability to modify the DNA of host cells that will then produce a desired product, for example, insulin.
The background for the work of the four scientists was formed by several scientific breakthroughs: the progress made by X-ray crystallographers in studying organic macromolecules; the growing evidence supplied by geneticists that it was DNA, not protein, in chromosomes that was responsible for heredity; Erwin Chargaff's experimental finding that there are equal numbers of A and T bases and of G and C bases in DNA; and Linus Pauling's discovery that the molecules of some proteins have helical shapes—arrived at through the use of atomic models and a keen knowledge of the possible disposition of various atoms.
Of the four DNA researchers, only Rosalind Franklin had any degrees in chemistry. She was born into a prominent London banking family, where all the children—girls and boys—were encouraged to develop their individual aptitudes. She attended St. Paul's Girls School, one of the few schools in London where girls were taught science. Then she proceeded to Newnham College, one of the women's colleges at Cambridge University. She completed her degree in 1941 in the middle of World War II and undertook graduate work at Cambridge with Ronald Norrish, a future Nobel Prize winner. She resigned her research scholarship in just one year to contribute to the war effort at the British Coal Utilization Research Association. There she performed fundamental investigations on the properties of coal and graphite. She returned briefly to Cambridge, where she presented a dissertation based on this work and was granted a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. After the war, through a French friend, she gained an appointment at the Laboratoire Centrale des Services Chimiques de l'Etat in Paris, where she was introduced to the technique of X-ray crystallography (see video below) and rapidly became a respected authority in this field. In 1951 she returned to England to King's College London, where her charge was to upgrade the X-ray crystallographic laboratory there for work with DNA.
Already at work at King's College was Maurice Wilkins, a New Zealand–born but Cambridge-educated physicist. As a new Ph.D. he worked during World War II on the improvement of cathode-ray tube screens for use in radar and then was shipped out to the United States to work on the Manhattan Project. Like many other nuclear physicists, he became disillusioned with his subject when it was applied to the creation of the atomic bomb; he turned instead to biophysics, working with his Cambridge mentor, John T. Randall—who had undergone a similar conversion—first at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and then at King's College London. It was Wilkins's idea to study DNA by X-ray crystallographic techniques, which he had already begun to implement when Franklin was appointed by Randall. The relationship between Wilkins and Franklin was unfortunately a poor one and probably slowed their progress.
Meanwhile, in 1951, 23-year-old James Watson, a Chicago-born American, arrived at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. Watson had two degrees in zoology: a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and a doctorate from Indiana University, where he became interested in genetics. He had worked under Salvador E. Luria at Indiana on bacteriophages, the viruses that invade bacteria in order to reproduce—a topic for which Luria received a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1969. Watson went to Denmark for postdoctoral work, to continue studying viruses and to remedy his relative ignorance of chemistry. At a conference in the spring of 1951 at the Zoological Station at Naples, Watson heard Wilkins talk on the molecular structure of DNA and saw his recent X-ray crystallographic photographs of DNA. He was hooked.
Watson soon moved to the Cavendish Laboratory, where several important X-ray crystallographic projects were in progress. Under the leadership of William Lawrence Bragg, Max Perutz was investigating hemoglobin and John Kendrew was studying myoglobin, a protein in muscle tissue that stores oxygen. (Perutz and Kendrew received the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work in the same year that the prize was awarded to the DNA researchers—1962.) Working under Perutz was Francis Crick, who had earned a bachelor's degree in physics from University College London and had helped develop radar and magnetic mines during World War II. Crick, another physicist in biology, was supposed to be writing a dissertation on the X-ray crystallography of hemoglobin when Watson arrived, eager to recruit a colleague for work on DNA. Inspired by Pauling's success in working with molecular models, Watson and Crick rapidly put together several models of DNA and attempted to incorporate all the evidence they could gather. Franklin's excellent X-ray photographs, to which they had gained access without her permission, were critical to the correct solution. The four scientists announced the structure of DNA in articles that appeared together in the same issue of Nature.
Then they moved off in different directions. Franklin went to Birkbeck College, London, to work in J. D. Bernal's laboratory, a much more congenial setting for her than King's College. Before her untimely death from cancer, she made important contributions to the X-ray crystallographic analysis of the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus, a landmark in the field. By the end of her life, she had become friends with Francis Crick and his wife and had moved her laboratory to Cambridge, where she undertook dangerous work on the poliovirus. Wilkins applied X-ray techniques to the structural determination of nerve cell membranes and of ribonucleic acid (RNA)—a molecule that is associated with chemical synthesis in the living cell—while rising in rank and responsibility at King's College. Watson's subsequent career eventually took him to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) of Quantitative Biology on Long Island, New York, where as director from 1968 onward he led it to new heights as a center of research in molecular biology. From 1988 to 1992 he headed the National Center for Human Genome Research at the National Institutes of Health. Afterwards he returned to CSHL, from which he retired in 2007. During Crick's long tenure at Cambridge, he made fundamental contributions to unlocking the genetic code. He and Sydney Brenner demonstrated that each group of three adjacent bases on a single DNA strand codes for one specific amino acid. He also correctly hypothesized the existence of "transfer" RNA, which mediates between "messenger" RNA and amino acids. After 20 years at Cambridge, with several visiting professorships in the United States, Crick joined the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California.
In 1959, only two years after getting his Ph.D., future Nobel Prize winner Marshall Nirenberg proposed to probe the genetic code. The only problem? He had no experience in the two fields at the forefront of this investigation.
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The Department of Public Instruction has established performance standards (cut scores) for the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam (WKCE) Mathematics content area to more closely align with national and international expectations of what is required to be college and career ready. The higher cut scores are comparable to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) cut scores. The performance level descriptors that accompany the college and career ready cut scores have been revised to reflect the higher expectations required with these higher performance benchmarks.
WKCE Mathematics Scale Score by Grade
Performance Level | Grade 3 | Grade 4 | Grade 5 | Grade 6 | Grade 7 | Grade 8 | Grade 10 |
Advanced | 492-630 | 526-650 | 553-680 | 573-700 | 591-710 | 605-730 | 618-750 |
Proficient | 438-491 | 474-525 | 501-552 | 524-572 | 544-590 | 558-604 | 574-617 |
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388-437 | 425-473 | 449-500 | 475-523 | 500-543 | 510-557 | 528-573 |
Minimal Performance | 220-387 | 240-424 | 270-448 | 310-474 | 330-499 | 350-509 | 410-527 |
These new WKCE cut scores and performance level descriptors will serve as a bridge to the more rigorous Smarter Balanced assessments, which will be introduced in the 2014-15 school year. Smarter Balanced is developing assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics—academic standards that are designed to help prepare all students to graduate from high school college and career ready.
WKCE Performance Levels:
- Advanced - Students at this level demonstrate a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of rigorous subject matter and provide sophisticated solutions to complex problems.
- Proficient - Students at this level demonstrate a solid understanding of challenging subject matter and solve a wide variety of problems.
- Basic – Students at this level demonstrate partial mastery of prerequisite knowledge and skills that are fundamental for proficient work.
- Minimal Performance – Students at this level demonstrate limited knowledge and skills in the subject matter and limited ability to apply knowledge and skills effectively.
Several steps were taken to arrive at the new college and career ready cut scores for the WKCE. Percentile ranks of Wisconsin students' performance on the 4th and 8th grade Spring 2011 NAEP administration and on the WKCE for the past five administrations were used. Statistical processes were used to establish WKCE cut scores for grades 3, 5, 6, 7, and 10. These steps were reviewed by DPI's Technical Advisory Committee, as well as a number of other assessment experts, and were approved by the US Department of Education as part of Wisconsin's ESEA Waiver application.
Please note that these cut score changes and the performance level descriptors do not apply to the alternate assessment (WAA-SwD).


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How one player used the blocky strategy game to mourn his lost loved one.
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On Friday, December 28, 2012, the Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI), a New York-based independent forecasting group, released its latest readings for its proprietary Weekly Leading Index (WLI). In the latest release, ECRI's WLI rose to a 72-week high.
ECRI's website continues to say we are in a recession. A December 22, summary says, "While some have argued that the weakness in the job market and the overall economy can be countered with central bank intervention… all the Fed's helicopters and all the Fed's men can put the economy back together again."
For the week ending December 21, 2012:
- WLI rose to 128.3, up from the prior week's reading of 127.2.
- The lowest reading for WLI on record was 105.3 for the week ending March 6, 2009.
- WLI growth rose to positive 5.4%, up from last week's reading of positive 4.6%.
- The lowest reading for WLI growth on record was negative 29.9% on Dec. 5, 2008. It turned higher months before the stock market bottomed on March 6, 2009, at 666.79.
- Occasionally the WLI level and growth rate can move in different directions, because the latter is derived from a four-week moving average.
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Annual WLI growth: Based on a simple, year-over-year annualized basis, annual WLI growth is 6.2%.
The next chart below shows ECRI's reported WLI growth rate, which is derived from a four-week moving average.
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If ECRI is correct that we are currently in a recession, is this period one of the 20% of recessions that come without a bear market in stocks?
ECRI's managing director, Lakshman Achuthan said "In three of last 15 recessions there was no bear market, 1980, 1945 and 1926-27. (The) '80 recession was really short, '45 was end of WWII and '26-'27 was Roaring Twenties."
Chart 3 Showing SPY Adjusted for Reinvested Dividends.
At the current price of $140.86, SPY is above the 2000 and 2007 bull market highs after accounting for reinvested dividends.
WLI peaked at 127.6 for the week ending October 5, 2012. It is no surprise that SPY (adjusted for dividends) was $145.11 on October 5, and today it is 2.9% lower.
Does SPY Lead WLI or Does WLI Lead SPY?
Since ECRI releases WLI numbers for the prior week, and the stock market is known in real time, you can sometimes get a clue for next week's WLI from the weekly change in the S&P 500 or its exchange traded fund, SPY. But this is not always the case. Specifically, in the lead up to the last two recessions, the WLI turned down months before the stock market did.
Is WLI moving up predicting higher prices for SPY in the weeks ahead?
Chart 4: S&P 500 vs. ECRI's WLI (click to enlarge)
(Note, I would plot SPY vs. WLI, but I don't have the data in my spreadsheet going back as far since I only started trading SPY in early 2007.)
Over the next 10 years, I expect the S&P 500 will keep up with inflation and the dividend it pays should grow with or even exceed inflation. An added benefit to owning equities is that the dividends and capital gains currently get favorable tax treatment. Finally, Treasury rates are artificially low (see Current U.S. Treasury Rates at a Glance) giving all bond funds significant interest rate risk.
I was asked in my Facebook group, "Investing for the Long Term," why I own SPY: "I'm confused; if the ECRI is projecting a recession, why are you long SPY? Is it a market timing strategy?" My answer was:
I don't believe in 'all or nothing' market timing. I explain it more in my newsletter, but I'll adjust my allocation to stocks based on many things including ECRI's outlook. My last two moves for SPY was to sell SOME shares earlier this year when higher and buy them back on June 4, 2012 at $127.50 using 'Auto Buy and Sell targets' in my monthly newsletter. Hope that helps. (Seeking Alpha requires its writers to disclose if we hold a position. Thus, I would report I was long SPY even if SPY was only 1% of the portfolio with the other 99% in cash.)
In the comments section of my article, "GDP Rises To 2% And ECRI WLI Growth Positive, But ECRI Still With Recession Call," ECRI's Chief Operating Officer, Lakshman Achuthan, posted more information about why it has stayed with its recession call:
Yes, U.S. GDP is still rising, [b]ut that doesn't mean we've dodged a new recession. Sound surprising? What most people don't understand is that recessions often begin when gross domestic product is still showing positive growth.
In its "The Tell-Tale Chart" article, ECRI wrote,
Reviewing the indicators used to officially decide U.S. recession dates, it looks like the recession began around July 2012. This is because, in retrospect, three of those four coincident indicators - the broad measures of production, income, employment and sales - saw their high points in July (vertical red line in chart), with only employment still rising." And "So, what does this recession mean for people? The bottom line is that production, income and sales will keep trending down for now, and employment too is likely to turn down.
I should note that on December 20, the government revised Q3-2012 GDP higher from 2.7% in November to 3.1%. It will take a very large negative revision next year to show an official recession began in July as ECRI claims.
Deficit spending is adding significantly to GDP. (See my Seeking Alpha article "SPY Soars As U.S. Borrowed 51.6¢ Of Every Dollar Spent In November 2012.") ECRI is now very clear that it believes no amount of Fed accommodation will prevent a recession.
What Does The Future Hold?
The S&P 500 is down 1.0% for the week with SPY at $140.82 so the market will work against WLI moving higher next week. It is very possible that SPY and several of the stocks in my newsletter explore portfolio that lead out of recessions have bottomed and are pointing to an economic recovery even before most economists agree with ECRI that we are currently in a recession. On the flip-side, if we fall off the fiscal cliff and enter a deep recession next year, this could be the last opportunity to get out of SPY or take profits at levels above the last bull market high. What do you think?
- Occasionally, the WLI level and growth rate can move in different directions because the latter is derived from a four-week moving average.
- ECRI uses the WLI level and WLI growth rate to help predict turns in the business cycle and growth rate cycle, respectively. Those target cycles are not the same as GDP level or growth, but rather a set of coincident indicators (including production, employment income and sales) that make up the coincident index. Based on two additional decades of data not available to the general public, there are a couple of occasions (in 1951 and 1966) when WLI growth fell well below negative 10, but no recessions resulted (although there were clear growth slowdowns).
- For a better understanding of ECRI's indicators, read its book, "Beating the Business Cycle."
- SPY is the exchange traded fund for the S&P 500 Index.
- VTI is Vanguard's "Total Stock Market" exchange traded fund.
- VOO is Vanguard's new exchange traded fund that tracks the S&P 500 Index. It is a lower cost alternative to SPY. I own and write about SPY, as I have many years of data for it, but VOO could do slightly better than SPY over time because it has a lower expense ratio.
Disclosure: I am long SPY and own the traditional index fund versions of VTI and VOO bought long ago in various taxable and tax deferred accounts.


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Steven Putterman and his father died in a plane crash on September 1, 1999, while vacationing in Tanzania.
Just a month before his death Steve had accepted a position as the Associate Director for the Worcester Family Medicine Residency Program.
Steve was a bright, energetic and optimistic member of the faculty, a young leader who showed a tremendous potential for the future.
Upon his death his family established a needs-based tuition scholarship which is awarded annually to a deserving medical student who exhibits Steve's passion for medicine and desire to serve all. This is a fitting memorial to the Puttermans, who shared a love of travel and commitment to multi-cultural destinations.
Each year the Department organizes a Memorial Lecture in honor of the work Steve was so committed to. Lecturers spend a day in the Department providing a Grand Rounds focusing on a broad topic that reinforces the interplay between the disciplines of Family Medicine and Community Health, and meeting with faculty and residents on community health related topics. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Lucy Candib, MD Family Health Center of Worcester"In It for the Long Haul: Continuity of Care from a Life Cycle Perspective"October 22, 2013 * 12:00 noonUMass Memorial Medical CenterMemorial Campus Amphitheater119 Belmont Street, Worcester, MA