EPTWrist Pain is killing me. - Page 5
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nitdkim
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carloselcoco
United States2302 Posts
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Jaxtyk
United States600 Posts
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Thebbeuttiffulland
Brazil288 Posts
On September 21 2011 04:43 freetgy wrote: stop playing and go rest, this is still just a game, where risking your own health is not even worth it in the slightest if you want to become a professional you will have to know when to train and when to rest. Even in real sports you will destroy your self buy training like hell without sufficient resting periods. its not just a game dont mislead him  | ||
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Phayze
Canada2029 Posts
On November 04 2011 17:28 nitdkim wrote: I think proper ergonomic settings would take away half the pain or at least delay it. No, ibuprofin will take the pain away and reduce inflammation. The pain will continue as long as he keeps doing what he's doing. Ergonomic's is for prevention, he's past prevention. He has to remove inflammation by taking ibuprofin and ceasing computer use. Allow the nerves running through his wrist to heal. The best way to promote this would be to keep his arm in a neutral position preferably on his side, make sure to not sleep on his arm, and to perhaps wear a wrist brace / elbow pads while sleeping or using the computer(he hasnt explained what nerve is under stress so it could be the ulnar nerve and the problem could be at his elbow from an arm wrest or from sleeping on his arm or at the neck from sleeping on a bad pillow etc). More commonly it would be carpal tunnel and i'd recommend a wrist brace to keep the wrist in a neutral position. I've talked to doctors before as I had numbness in half my 4th and my pinky for 6 months due to wresting my elbow on an armwrest for 50 or so hours achieving realm first level 80 in World of Warcraft. I recieved some RSI training and trust me, the only fix is taking a break and using ibuprofin for any inflammation, as inflammation will reduce bloodflow and stop healing / do more damage. It's not a solution for someone who wants to continue to go "pro". As ibuprofin does WORK to your liver and should not be used for an extended period of time. If you dont have the time to stop use and allow the nerves in the wrist to heal (at about 1cm a month, muscle damage is pernament, and callouses etc on the nerve are too) then the only option is surgery but atleast for me it's pretty damn hard to get without going to a private institution. Get a nerve conduction test, a doctor will tell you what the problem is, where it is, and how to deal with it. Taking ibuprofin will help prevent more damage to the nerve from occurring. If theres no numbness, you pretty much have nothing to worry about. It should heal fairly easily. Once you get numbness you start on the muscle damage path and that's bad. When I was suffering my ulnar nerve entrapment, I watched alot of TV laying down and played alot of console games. Took about two weeks to have no pain, but another 5 months for feeling to return. | ||
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samuraibael
Australia294 Posts
Eventually I started playing games right handed again but only low stress ones like rpgs. After a while I came back to iccup and played casual bw without problems for a few years, 1-2 games a day. Then sc2 came out. I began playing more and more games a day to climb the ladder. Thats when my old rsi started coming back. The more I played the worse it got, if I slowed down, the pain receeded proportionally. It just seems to me that if you have this condition you have to give up any aspiration of playing games at a high level. | ||
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Phayze
Canada2029 Posts
On November 04 2011 17:52 samuraibael wrote: I had the same thing a few years ago and tried every solution I could find, including doctors and physio. Everything helped slightly but nothing cured it. The only solution was to stop doing the activity that caused it. I stopped for about 6months, learnt to use the mouse with my left hand, and minimised anything that strained my wrist (driving was another big contributor, I was doing an hour each way to uni). Eventually I started playing games right handed again but only low stress ones like rpgs. After a while I came back to iccup and played casual bw without problems for a few years, 1-2 games a day. Then sc2 came out. I began playing more and more games a day to climb the ladder. Thats when my old rsi started coming back. The more I played the worse it got, if I slowed down, the pain receeded proportionally. It just seems to me that if you have this condition you have to give up any aspiration of playing games at a high level. Surgery is an option. Especially for carpal tunnel. But the ligament that gets cut during surgery will heal and become a problem a few again a few years down the line. 6 months was the same time it took me. I went to console games for a while personally ( read above ). But i'm thinking i'm going to try swapping my keyboard and mouse, you're brilliant. OP i'd recommend you buy an evoluvent 3 vertical mouse (or the new evoluvent 4?). It did wonders for me, and my friend who suffered terribly from carpal tunnel (he almost got the claw!) used this mouse. I used it for everything on the computer except games. Having both mice plugged in at once. It's truely a great product and will help you keeping your wrist in a neutral position while using a computer. It's not bad for games either it's just a little awkward to get used too. It has an avago optical sensor one just like the one in the deathadder!. So it's got no acceleration like those terrible steelseries mice and actually performs quite damn well. | ||
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Mr.SoloDolo
American Samoa90 Posts
On November 04 2011 17:52 samuraibael wrote: It just seems to me that if you have this condition you have to give up any aspiration of playing games at a high level. I don't think thats a very good attitude considering MVP has carpal tunnel in BOTH wrists. | ||
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Koshi
Belgium38799 Posts
EDIT: damn this is an old thread... | ||
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Phayze
Canada2029 Posts
On November 04 2011 18:01 Mr.SoloDolo wrote: I don't think thats a very good attitude considering MVP has carpal tunnel in BOTH wrists. but the surgery that can correct carpal tunnel is very common in S. Korea. It's not generally done in NA for example. | ||
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Eurekastreet
1308 Posts
On September 21 2011 04:44 Freeheals wrote: This might help http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=134466 The above link, and also a mousepad with wrist rest : http://image.marginup.com/u/u114/37-TP111302.jpg Been playing games for about 20 years (yup, that old), had some issues with wrist pain 4-5 years ago, then invested in a wrist rest and since then it's never been an issue anymore. Not saying it'd work for everyone or that it's the best long term solution, but that did it for me. | ||
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zul
Germany5427 Posts
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