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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Carl2009 on April 01, 2011, 05:58:11 pm
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When I have a hard week of WC I find my right wrist starts to hurt quite badly. It's on top of the wrist at the base of the thumb. I'm right handed and hold my pole ( ;) ) with my right hand lower than my left in the main. I don't clasp the butt end of the pole, but hold the pole itself, meaning the wrist is bent. On the attached picture imagine the guy is holding a wfp pole, but that the wrist is bent up more, as if he was holding the wrench almost vertically.
I know I need to hold the pole differently, by cupping the butt end perhaps.
Does anyone else suffer from this (i've been trading 2 years and had no problems before becoming a WC).
Does it sound like CPS?
Can anyone recommend a wrist support?
Cheers all
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I've had it for years, both wrists but my right is the worst.
Do you get pains in your lower arm &/or wrist in bed at night?
Does your hand go numb?
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Nope, it's just in the right wrist. No numbness or trouble at night, save from the pain i've described. I guess I have that to look forward to...!
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It's my left shoulder that I suffer with; that and my unusually large thingy ;)
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I definately didn't write " thingy "; not since I was five anyway ;D
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Nope, it's just in the right wrist. No numbness or trouble at night, save from the pain i've described. I guess I have that to look forward to...!
I don't think it's CTS then.
Poling is hard on the body IMO. I got tennis elbow as a direct result of WFP, it lasted 12 months too & still niggles me even now on a hard day. My CTS is also made worse by WFP.
BTW, I hold my wfp exactly the same as you!
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my doctor has told me that i have carpol tunnel thingeee,i tend to be fine by day, but at night ,and i mean every night,i get woken up maybe 2 or 3 times a night with complete numbness in my hands (both of them),it feels like i,ve been sleping on them all night, i can have an opp to sort it out, but that will mean about 4-6 weeks off work
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my doctor has told me that i have carpol tunnel thingeee,i tend to be fine by day, but at night ,and i mean every night,i get woken up maybe 2 or 3 times a night with complete numbness in my hands (both of them),it feels like i,ve been sleping on them all night, i can have an opp to sort it out, but that will mean about 4-6 weeks off work
Yep! I can't even hold a newspaper without my hands going numb! I was lined up for the OP but bottled it in the end. Couldn't get an accurate enough idea of recovery period & the people I knew who'd had it all had mixed results from cured to even worse! ::)
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I have experienced this numbness for some time and now I have a chiropractor do his thing at the end of my 8 weekly cycle...this I find helps alot.
My Chiropractor also mentioned have a good warm-up and warm down in the day, also have a nice hot shower or bath after work.
OK LAW ALERT:
I am lucky enough to live in The Netherlands and as such I am able to medicate using cannabis without much issue...I use a vaporisor (so no tobacco) at night ...this I find enables me to relax into a deep sleep. The combination of the 2 have worked for me.
I am not suggesting anyone break their countries law but this is my solution.
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im trad but definitely i got carpal tunnel end of last year,in both wrists.i changed tools and it went almost overnight. perhaps you could fix a different shaped handle at the bottom of your pole ?
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Do you get pains in your lower arm &/or wrist in bed at night
you will go blind winpro ;D
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I have experienced this numbness for some time and now I have a chiropractor do his thing at the end of my 8 weekly cycle...this I find helps alot.
My Chiropractor also mentioned have a good warm-up and warm down in the day, also have a nice hot shower or bath after work.
OK LAW ALERT:
I am lucky enough to live in The Netherlands and as such I am able to medicate using cannabis without much issue...I use a vaporisor (so no tobacco) at night ...this I find enables me to relax into a deep sleep. The combination of the 2 have worked for me.
I am not suggesting anyone break their countries law but this is my solution.
Please, what is, 'cannabis'?
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OH yeh, hands wrists elbows and shoulders.
I have episodes of severe pain in all those joints and more.
I have got to the point where I need to be dosed up on anti inflamatory tabs and pain killers just so I can get through the week.
I am now starting to look at employing full time staff so that I can carry on and make a living.
For the most part I have been happy to work for myself/by myself, but I think that I need to make a change before the onset of next winter.
ouch
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Too late - you should have made the change at least two years ago.
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Do you get pains in your lower arm &/or wrist in bed at night
you will go blind winpro ;D
You should see my new High Modulus carbon white stick! ;D
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I was waiting for your reply ;D
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one consolation is "theres always light at the end of the tunnel" ;D
im sorry