I went through a phase of hammering the shit out of mine with cross frictional massage and stretching, which seemed to aggrivate them. Ignore seems to be the best strategy for me at the mo. I've always been incredibly shit at climbing on pockets, and I only started fingerboarding--including training pockets--about 3 years ago. Mine have all cropped up over this period. Obviously all of these happenings covary with getting old, so I can't really pin causality. That said, since I've stopped training pockets they seem to have regressed.
Quote from: Danny on November 12, 2020, 10:00:08 amI went through a phase of hammering the shit out of mine with cross frictional massage and stretching, which seemed to aggrivate them. Ignore seems to be the best strategy for me at the mo. I've always been incredibly shit at climbing on pockets, and I only started fingerboarding--including training pockets--about 3 years ago. Mine have all cropped up over this period. Obviously all of these happenings covary with getting old, so I can't really pin causality. That said, since I've stopped training pockets they seem to have regressed.Yeah - from the literature they are most commonly (by quite a margin) on ring and little finger - so training the back two is probably not going to er 'help' the situation..
I spoke to Huffy a few weeks ago and he thought that I had this amongst some other issues in my left hand. He said it was in its early phases and asked me to to do some lumbrical stretches kind of like this https://images.app.goo.gl/uifJqDep7LrS4YFc6 but straight armed and palm away from me to fully stretch it. I'll report any observations here.
I hope not literally like that, there's no way any of my fingers will curl that much..
Has anyone experienced this before?
It was a dermofasciectomy with a full thickness skin graft, which is supposed to reduce the incidence of recurrence. Pinkie was numb for a month, took 2 months to return to regular strength. I have to wear a splint on it at night to help the tissue lengthen or at least not contract.
Quote from: richdraws on November 24, 2020, 08:20:23 pmIt was a dermofasciectomy with a full thickness skin graft, which is supposed to reduce the incidence of recurrence. Pinkie was numb for a month, took 2 months to return to regular strength. I have to wear a splint on it at night to help the tissue lengthen or at least not contract.Out of interest, how bad was it to consider surgery? Mine was nodules for ages (10 years) but has recently worsened. My pinkie is 20 to 30 degrees off straight. It still works and I can climb. Only causes any pain/stiffness if I do squeezey things like using secuteurs (sp?) in the garden.