The reprecussions of 3-5 hours practice/daily

[SparBZ]

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Diagnosis: Tenosynovitis and Arthritis Flareup

Background: Tenosynovitis involves inflammation of the tendon and tendon sheath. Examples of tenosynovitis include de Quervain tenosynovitis of the wrist (ie, abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons), volar flexor tenosynovitis (ie, trigger finger), and gonococcal (GC) and other infectious etiologies.

Pathophysiology: Flexor tendons of the hand run in tight fibroosseous tunnels. Visceral and parietal layers of synovium lubricate and nourish the tendons. These layers usually are collapsed unless infection, which follows the path of least resistance along the tendon sheaths or inflammation, is present.

Overall: Because I drum so much, the tendon sheaths have become extremely inflamed to the point where I cannot move my right wrist. But it's because I have arthritis too.

Out until May 28th, then start rehab to begin drumming on a regular basis again.

[The Ska Man]

that sucks, man.

It's something that will heal in time, right? God bless, bro.

[SparBZ]

Should be back on the kit by the middle of June. I'm reading up on theory and doing a lot of listening now, and helping out local bands with their sound balance and their time.

[alurny]

Good luck with the rehab! I only manage 45 mins practice a night!

[SparBZ]

When you live at school and take two music classes, and then your sport is band, you're in band, you're in a private band, and you practice by yourself, you find that kind of time =P

[dairyairman]

holy crap! i've never seen so many $10 words in a posting on this forum in my life! that sucks about your tendonitis though (or whatever you called it), and arthritis too? i thought you had to be old to get that. i have some inflammation in my right shoulder today after playing a particularly long and energetic show last night. i hope i'm not next!

[Retarded Chipple]

Thats your right hand, correct?

Surely you can still practice with your left (and presumably weaker) hand. Its the perfect time to get it on par with your right hand. :thumb:

Yes, it really does suck and I feel for you but use the time creatively. Work on your feet, left hand, theory as you already said.

[jcreamer89]

Once I was to sick to play, and once I got back I had no control over the sticks. It took like two weeks to gain power back.

[CARMEN77]

wow alot of bad technquie issues recently.

Not to be an spatula but your injury didnt result from too much practice but rather to much bad practice!

Believe me practicing any amount of time, be it 3 hours or 18 hours a day would result in no injury if your technquie was good enough.

I dont understand how can I get injured if im always relaxed? You only become injured due to tension.

I know DCI guys practice their chops more than you and I. I know they never suffer from hurt wrists. Instantly we can rule out practice as the cause of your injury.

[MNdrummer21]

Yeah you should really look over your technique. This is not an injury due to the amount of time you play, but the practice of bad technique that was obviously harmful to you. Hopefully you can recover and get back to your previous facility and won't have something like this come up again. Oh and before anyway flames me I've been practicing for 3-8 hours a day(depending on weekends, homework and such) for about 2 years now, and haven't sustained a single injury. Relaxed technique ftw!

[dairyairman]

he did say he has arthritis. that could be a problem no matter how loose he plays.

[MNdrummer21]

But did that also result from poor technique or is it something that was a preexisting condition?

[Det_Nosnip]

Either way, the reprecussions are not coming from practicing too much.

[SparBZ]

I'm not going to get into a huge argument here, but this mirrors the conversation I had with my drum teacher of 3 years:

He said although he didn't notice any technique issues, that it was possible my right hand was lacking genuine technique due to the fact I spend a ridiculous amount of time on my traditional left hand. But then again, my joints have been extremely inflamed and I used to not be able to grip a stick with my right hand and play for more then 5 minutes at a time, due to the inflammation and pain caused from it. There's no reason on why I can't post a video of my playing and we can try and resolve the issue so this doesn't further.

[Sharkey Boy]

thats what i get a week dude

i cant imagine doing that everynight
i hope u get better and drumming again soon

[Drum Phil]

I blame masturbation

[SparBZ]

I use my left hand. So I can move my mouse with the right.

[CARMEN77]

wow well if you have pains unrelated to drumming my sympathy.

When you get better using match grip with your right hand, relaxly grip the stick and play doubles at low tempos(60bpm). DO you feel tension? Does it feel relaxed? IS it clean?

If yes to all the questions then you proally just injured your hand due to poor technquie on the drumset most likely.

What we as drummers wanna do is take a pattern, learn it in a relaxed and tension free way and then bring it to the set. This way we keep eveything relaxed and understand the motions we present.