Massage Therapy
I've been a massage therapist for 3 years and have been working 40 hour weeks for the past 5 months. I didnt get the tendinitis until recently. I woke up the next day after doing 6 hours worth of mas…
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Being a Caregiver
I've been lifting the wheelchair in and out for approx 3 years. I tended just to use my right arm to do this - hoisting it in one movement into the car. (I'm not entirely sure why the minimum charact…
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House Cleaning Before the Holidays
One day. I did a huge house cleaning before guests arrived for the holidays, and I decided to squeeze a sponge in hot water over and over with my left hand. I did this hundreds of times over 8 hours.…
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Gardening Caused Tennis Elbow
This garden maintenance session was an once-off activity, the session lasted about 3 hours.3 days after the first incident, an outing with the family, playing ten pin bowling for 2 rounds worsened th…
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Newspaper Delivery
I took on an extra job delivery papers once a week. After 2 years of throwing papers out my car window, my left elbow began to ache. It was not bad while I was throwing, but at night would wake me up…
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Playing a Musical Instrument
I have been playing for years but as I get older the pain in my elbow gets more noticeable. I just had a heavy season of playing in Christmas programs and the pain has really flared up. Funny thing i…
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Baseball Injury
I didnt play baseball at all but it was throwing the baseball that started the problem. But throwing a football i was doing it for years and never did I have a problem with my elbow. i also played te…
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iPhone Overuse?!?
I started getting pain in my shoulder, neck and arm. Been for x-rays, scans and everything. I don't play tennis or golf so the only thing I can figure is overuse of the I-phone. Going to a sports med…
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Work-Related Overuse
When the mild forearm pains got worse and my shoulder started to hurt, I went for medical treatment. I had been working for 10 months before this happened and it has now been a month since this all s…
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Pitching Mechanics
I've been playing fastpitch since I was little but the pain didn't start until I started getting more competitive probably when I was 10 or 11. The pain always went away during the off season but cam…
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Hitting Fielding Practice
My symptoms occurred immediately after I spent a couple hours hitting ground balls with a baseball bat to my son. I was tossing the balls up with my gloved left hand and swinging the bat with only my…
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Crocheting Injury
I am 65 and have always done a lot of handwork, housework and gardening so my hands are always busy. When the blanket project started I got busy. After a few weeks I could hardly move my left arm but…
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Using an Electric Sander
Just a couple of weeks, especially extended time for just a couple of days.The pain begun to become persistent three months later when I begun to play racket I didn't play for some years.I guess othe…
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Lifting Weights and Metal Detectors
I was only just starting with heavy weights- so a few weeks- and I stopped once it started to hurt, the digging continues...as I'm addicted to finding good stuff in the dirt! seriously I've cut back …
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Repetitive Lifting
I have been doing nightfill on-and-off for about 4 years. however I was doing it regularly and continuously for about 4 months before the symptoms developed. The pain was first very mild, and felt li…
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Powerwashing All Summer Long
5 months, 6 days a week, probably between 2 and 5 hours of actually washing houses daily, and probably doing 35% to 40% of the actual power washing, maybe 20 to 40 minutes at a turn (I did other work…
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Started With Injury, Led to Chronic Pain
It was a sudden injury that had not happened before in 10 seasons behind the plate. I'm in my early 60s.I have had cortisone injections..the first one was very effective for about 3 months, the 2nd a…
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