[cleanability]

Anyone get problems with their hands? Eg aching joints/knuckles etc. Weariing rubber gloves when i clean a suite stopped my problems when i first started this job 10 years ago. Anyone for instance wear any specialised support gloves maybe or take any vitamins. I think my hands will be in bits if did this jobs for another 10 years.

Chris

[Spot On cleaning]

As mentioned on an earlier thread, i have been getting a bad right elbow which comes and goes. I don't wear gloves but use a moisturiser to try and look after everything.

This week i have back ache, a bad elbow as well as a bad leg. Basically i am falling apart.

Dave

[Buster Ingram]

Full you should mention your joints, after 26 years of scrubbing mine are still O.K. Though a few years back I can recall having the same problems. Then just like magic it all went away, could have a lot to do with taking Cod Liver oil tablets :

[Dave_Lee]

All down to frequent over use. I cannot straighten my right arm anymore, following constant tennis elbow for years, when the pain stopped my arm refused to straighten due to the build up of inflexible scar tissue, and my back, lets not go there!
Dave.

[Ken Wainwright]

Apart from all the obvious, this warmer weather can create a problem   Driving around, you may have the window open or a vent pointing cooling air to your hands, elbows, legs around your neck etc etc. All of this can create aches and pains or aggrevate existing problems.

Even the healthier amongst us will suffer from a stiff neck at the end of the day if we drive around with a window open   

Safe and happy cleaning
Ken

[stevegunn]

Take glucosamine & chrondroitin high strength and cod liver oil tablets that will help.

[cleanability]

Thanks chaps. Started on the cod liver oil and getting some glucosamine & chrondroitin tomorrow.

Chris

[Buster Ingram]

Chrie don't bite the cod liver oil capsule they tast orrible. Its like, well I wont go into that  :

[angela carlton]

If you're suffering from any of these or similar probs, you must change what you're doing, or what you're doing it with.

Tools and techniques in using them, can result in skeletal and muscular problems. If there is a problem. What's causing it ?

Can it be overcome by using a different technique, or different tools?

Don't depend on additives to solve the problem. You must change what you're doing to eliminate the problem.

angie

[Paul Kettless]

I do not have any problem in using additives, and I absolutetly swear by Glucosamine Sulphate, and the copper bracelets that you can buy.

I started to get problems in my wrists and ankles and discussed the problem with my local health shop.  I have been taking glucosamine for approx a year now, and combined with the copper bracelet I have no problems at all.

You need to be aware that if you do decide to take glucosamine it takes three months before you should start to see a difference, so you must stick with them, they are not overnight miracle cures.

Hope this helps

Paul

[John Kelly]

Wor lass takes Glucosamine sulphate for her back problems - she was told not to get the ones with Chondroitin added.  Chondroitin increases production of the 'jelly' which was actually squeezing out between the discs in her spine and resting on the nerves (caused her to faint three times one morning due to the pain!).  Of course if you don't have "bulging" or "herniated" discs then Chondroitin would be recommended!  Omega 3,6&9 (all in one capsules) are also highly recommended for problems with joints and muscles.

John

[angela carlton]

John

What you're referring to in your daughter, is almost certainly caused by postural problems, which can be corrected.

Just yesterday, my husband was in discussion with a cardiologist and orthopaedic surgeon who went into great detail about the short term effects achieved by these and other additives or rubs, etc.

They said there was no real benefit to the UNDERLYING PROBLEM in using any of them, but conceded, that correction could be achieved through an accomplished practitioner, of some manipulative therapies, when there was a distortion, through trauma or bad posture, etc.

I do know, however, of long term relief being achieved with magnets and low level laser.

My knowledge is first hand, as a sufferer and second hand, as my husband practices pelvic and spinal alignment. He was having an angiogram yesterday to determine whether, or not he will require heart surgery. Very scary !

If you believe something works for you, keep taking it, but if the problem keeps coming back, listen to your body !

good luck

angie

 

[stains-away]

After suffering chronic backpain caused by prolapsed discs for 4 years and several spells of upto 3 months at a time on the floor not being able to move due to the pain of the spasms the advice I was finally given by my consultant was that they wouldn't operate until I was permanently on my back, in June last year they gave me a wheelchair and the advice was to sit in it.
After talking to several people independantly about my problem I was advised that the dose of diazepam that I was on and the duration that I had been taking it had rendered it useless and that mobility exercises were the only way to keep moving.
2 months later I was up on crutches and have kept to a regular routine of mobility exercises and going to a gym that is run by an instructor that specialises in sports injury and g.p referals.
I've been working again since September last year (after slowly backing out of my job in the structural steel industry) without problems and now control the amount of hours I work and the type of work I do, the moral being that its not always wise to listen to doctors, Andy

[angela carlton]

Your experience of the NHS is similar to my husbands although he suffered over some 40 plus years AND WAS FINALLY WRITTEN OFF WITH SPINAL COMPRESSION.

Only the skill of a dedicated therapist from Harrow got his flexibility and posture back.

However, recurring sciatica and danger of totally wrecking his spine made him eventually quit c/c at 62 years old.

best wishes

angie

[benny d]

However, recurring sciatica and danger of totally wrecking his spine made him eventually quit c/c at 62 years old.

Mentioning sciaticia which I have quite badly at the moment, does anyone have any good ideas as to what might help? Im taking pain killers, but they dont seem to help too much. Its strange, but when im working its not too bad at all, but if I stand still or walk the dog slowly it kills my left leg and have to sit down for a few minutes, and then can carry on, and then have to sit down again etc etc.
Any advise?
Ben

[angela carlton]

Contact    www.dontsufferpain@aol.com

angie

[benny d]

Thanks Angie, but I cant work out if this is an email address or a web address. It seems to be a bit of both   
Thanks
Ben