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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Amazin on May 09, 2021, 10:10:52 pm
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From using wfp. My hands would feel numb and my middle finger joint clicks when i wake up. Any tips on how to avoid it or any products I can use?
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Don't w4nk in bed 👍
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Try loosening your grip on the pole, I find that the wear and tear is increased if you hold the pole too tightly...
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Do you get pins and needles in your fingers and they feel swollen?
If so you could have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Get it checked out.
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Don't w4nk in bed 👍
What about in a customers wheelie bin?
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So did this about a while back, it was to use on our trad poles at the time.
As the title say's pole control.
Think it would of been better using on a WFP.
Easier grip as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chQ0n9fvMZY
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From using wfp. My hands would feel numb and my middle finger joint clicks when i wake up.
Sounds like it might be trigger finger:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/trigger-finger/
Finger splints may help.
Also lighter (Extreme) poles, WFPing both left & right handed, using gloves with rubber palm (which may help you in gripping the pole less tightly).
I had this a few years back but no occurrence in the last year or so.
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I started with trigger finger a couple of months ago.
Woke up one morning at the thing wouldnt straighten , had to manually straighten it ;D
Seems to have got a bit better lately but my hands always ache, getting old eh
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If you have trigger finger (difficulty straightening and then it straightens with a sudden release), go to the doctor and get it looked at. They'll likely inject it with steroids and it'll go away.
Alternatively, like me, ignore it and then, like me, you'll need an operation and six weeks off work to recover.
Vin
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I get this from time to time and it’s not the finger itself it’s the tendon it gets hard it’s scar tissue or it can be,if I stretch the particular finger it clicks but it’s tendon not bone.
Over time I had a small lump but with regular stretching it’s gone on the palm side of my middle finger on my leading hand or the left,you can also get this inside you’re right thumb if you are right hand from the base of the pole.
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I really think loosening the grip as much as you can is key.
It’s tempting to really grip the pole, but if you release some of the grip, enough to keep control, you’ll put less stress on the tendons.
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If you use the lightest poles possible it really only fingertip stuff when working on regular cleans.
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Don't w4nk in bed 👍
What about in a customers wheelie bin?
It's not big enough.
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Try gloves if you don't already do so.
Light weight ones.
Helped me..
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i seem to have a problem with my little finger on my left hand,it locks sometimes and doesnt feel "right",i also have thumb pain sometimes on my right hand,numbness too esp when playing drums...i think its carpal tunnel syndrome...
not sure what i can do.....wfpoling,drumming and lifting weights probably dont help but this is what i do,its deeply ingrained into my everyday life
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Always excercise each morning, stretch every part of your body.
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Alternate between left and right. If you feel uncomfortable with your ‘other’ side, keep at it and you’ll be as effective with both.
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Vin I would rather have the operation than stick a needle into my bones 😊
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Vin I would rather have the operation than stick a needle into my bones 😊
Having had both I'd rather have the ten seconds of mild pain from an injection into the tendon (not the bone) than the six weeks unable to work at all and the permanent damage to my hand after the operation.
Each to their own.
Vin
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Unless you have done something serious you won’t need an operation and the injection is only as good as the doctor administering it a lot of surgery’s only have 1-2 doctors that are good at doing it,sometimes a cortisone injection gets rid of it permanently but it’s rare.
I had a major problem with this and it would switch from arm to arm you want to try massage up and down inside the forearm and the outer forearm,although the pain can feel on the outer side it can be coming from inside due to tight tendons,palms up out in front of you pull fingers back while you slightly drop you’re arm down 10-15 stretches on each hand 3 X a day with the massage for 10 minutes prior to doing this.
I had this problem for well over 2 years and after doing this it completely went after a week 10 days of doing this,it can come back but again repeat the above and it goes in next to no time.
Surgery is the very last resort with this injury and 99 times out of 100’its not needed,hot and cold on the entire area really helps as well.