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D/ic/KS with carpal tunnel and other art hindering issues, how do you work around it?
I have carpal tunnel myself and have to stop drawing every five to ten minutes and shake my hand out for a few minutes before starting again.
Does anyone else suffer this? If so how do you deal with it?
>>2318930
I've got a mild form of Ehler-Danlos syndrome. It's basically like having carpal tunnel at random intervals and in multiple joints, at least in my case. I just stop when my body tells me to stop. Sometimes I can go for hours, sometimes I can't even start. The one time I ignored the pain I ended up having to rest for a week to go back to "normal". I was really scared I had fucked up my hands completely.
Also relaxation exercises help, whereas more stretching-oriented stuff like yoga or other common warm-up exercises make it worse.
In addition to drawing I stock shelves in a supermarket 6 nights a week. My hands hurt a lot,but I have been staving off the worst with aspirin an hour before work and Advil when it's particularly intense. That and I enacts when I get home.
Also,if you can afford it,try seeing a chiropractor regularly. One massaged my wrists for 10 minutes and I had gripping strength again. But since it's a chronic conditions you will get from the same physical activity all you can really do is maintenance for it,not cure yourself.
I'm a tattoo artist and hand cramps are especially annoying for me. I have to squeeze my grip so hard to hold the machine steady that I end up having to shake my hands every few minutes for the duration, makes me look silly and makes the customer wonder whats going on, all around bad shit. I started doing hand exercises and got one of those gyro ball things, over the past month ive seen some good improvement, so maybe try that.
Also here lately I get this rather painful burning sensation in the tips of all of my fingers, both hands, it comes and lasts for a few minutes, then passes but while its going I cant do anything, this is relatively new so if anyone knows what that might be from.
I'm going to start stretching at least twice a day. I did all these this morning and it barely takes 5 minutes. Worth it desu. I don't think it can fix carpal tunnel you already have but any preventative measure for the rest of us is worth trying.
>>2319903
Are you diabetic?
If so it may be nroprethy
I'm diabetic and have it in my pinky toe and a few fingers
