Rehabilitation

Alright. Obserations. Of thumb behaviour. At various intervals. In various activities. Over the course of these past couple of days. (During which time I have only been able to put in nothing more few minutes actual play at the end of each day- but ah well.) After warmups it is better. The kink is there, but not drastically / permanently as initially. It shows up mostly when there is a funny angle / wide stretch between notes.

So it would appear to have been a combination of cramped muscle and weakened muscle.

I suppose what happened at the last entry must have been caused by no prior stretching / warmups.

Combination, I suppose, makes more sense - after all if it has been locked and therefore not using that range of motion for an unknown span of months / years it would have weakened, right?

So it won't be fully operational for some time. I have to find some strengthening exercises after all. Finger dumbells!

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Experimenting with finding thumb exercises is quite a good way to pass most unavoidable waiting sessions. Unfortunately people stare. Or try not to.

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For some unknown reason, now my other thumb hurts too. Sympathetic pains for its twin in rehab? It's so weird that my left hand has retained finer piano-key motor control than my right. It was always the left hand that I found weak when I was still playing...

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Embarassingly, I discovered yesterday I can't move my right thumb in some positions without the right forefinger twitching too. How awful is that? Isn't that only supposed to happen to the mostest weakest little fingers? No problems with the left.

It's faintly improved today. Working on telling one not to move while the other does reminded me a little bit of the opening of Kill Bill.. when she's talking to her toes.

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