I am 60. I'm female. Average height and weight. Not overweight, no real health issues other than the structural damage I've done to my hand, wrist and shoulder...My work table is 30" high. My sawhorses, I just lowered by eight inches or so last year, so that when tearing down, I'm bearing down with my weight more and not just brute pushing from my shoulder.
I've started taping an X over my wrist bone..It seems to help. Seems to take up the slack where tendons have petered out. I say tendons inside and manmade (elastic tape) on outside. My friends tell me it looks cool...
After a couple of really hard days in the shop, I wake up with a painful numb right arm and completely numb hand. All 5 fingers. Not just the pinky and ring finger. After some reading and researching, it appears to be TOS. Thoracic outlet syndrome. Makes a ton of sense to me. Recommendations are shoulder exercises...and you know that could help, I used to go to the gym and throw around a bunch of iron every day..
A big factor in my day to day assessments is the fact that I am deathly allergic to NSAIDS...that includes motrin, aspirin, naprox, alleve, all the ibuprofen products. Whenever you go to a doctor for anything, usually the first line of defense is NSAIDs. I do not like cortisone. Haven't had that for about 5 yrs now. And of course, I won't even consider something habit forming.
About 10 years ago, I went to a chiropractor who did a lot of good for my hand. I've had different issues with forearm, wrists, thumb...etc.
Finding help is frustrating. If they are young or younger than us, trying to keep them off the phone is ridiculous. One girl, I told her no phone while working, and I swear she went to the bathroom 80 times a day...(so she could sneak and check her phone). The one that I have right now is pretty good, but I give specific detailed instruction on teardown and damned if he does it his way, which makes more work for me. He gouges wood terribly, has no finesse with staple puller. And when he leaves, just leaves stuff and tools laying all over, never picks up behind himself.
I am in a really poor rural area and the hiring pool leaves a lot to be desired.
I don't do and don't want to do enough work that I have to pay someone over 20 hours a week. Hard to find someone that is ok with minimal hours. I pay 12 bucks an hour, cash. Better than Taco Bell or Walshit.
Oh well...
This past week has been better than previous weeks...I'm not in as bad of a funk mood as earlier...
Perry
I've started taping an X over my wrist bone..It seems to help. Seems to take up the slack where tendons have petered out. I say tendons inside and manmade (elastic tape) on outside. My friends tell me it looks cool...
After a couple of really hard days in the shop, I wake up with a painful numb right arm and completely numb hand. All 5 fingers. Not just the pinky and ring finger. After some reading and researching, it appears to be TOS. Thoracic outlet syndrome. Makes a ton of sense to me. Recommendations are shoulder exercises...and you know that could help, I used to go to the gym and throw around a bunch of iron every day..
A big factor in my day to day assessments is the fact that I am deathly allergic to NSAIDS...that includes motrin, aspirin, naprox, alleve, all the ibuprofen products. Whenever you go to a doctor for anything, usually the first line of defense is NSAIDs. I do not like cortisone. Haven't had that for about 5 yrs now. And of course, I won't even consider something habit forming.
About 10 years ago, I went to a chiropractor who did a lot of good for my hand. I've had different issues with forearm, wrists, thumb...etc.
Finding help is frustrating. If they are young or younger than us, trying to keep them off the phone is ridiculous. One girl, I told her no phone while working, and I swear she went to the bathroom 80 times a day...(so she could sneak and check her phone). The one that I have right now is pretty good, but I give specific detailed instruction on teardown and damned if he does it his way, which makes more work for me. He gouges wood terribly, has no finesse with staple puller. And when he leaves, just leaves stuff and tools laying all over, never picks up behind himself.
I am in a really poor rural area and the hiring pool leaves a lot to be desired.
I don't do and don't want to do enough work that I have to pay someone over 20 hours a week. Hard to find someone that is ok with minimal hours. I pay 12 bucks an hour, cash. Better than Taco Bell or Walshit.
Oh well...
This past week has been better than previous weeks...I'm not in as bad of a funk mood as earlier...
Perry