Pins and Needles in Hand
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Yes, I started playing with 13s a few years ago and after practicing for a while I started having numbness and pins and needles. I stopped playing for a week and went back to 11s and was okay after that.
If you’ve changed anything recently, it might be that. Posture, string gauge, or the amount of time spent playing. At the time it rattled me a little.
Pins and needles is usually related to a nerve.Rkphilpot said:Not sure if this goes in technique but it could be down to that.
After playing for a few hours I start to get pins and needles in my left thumb and index finger. I'm not sure if my watch is too tight and it's slowing blood flow, that will be my first test or it's the dreaded carpal tunnel.
Anybody have any experience with this?
Go see a doctor.
I had this year's ago in the little finger and ring finger only, I was shown (by a physio type) a stretching exercise to do which got rid of it, and it's not returned
I had pins and needles and numbness in my middle, ring and small finger for almost a month. It was from sitting with my elbows on a wooden handled chair in a hospital room for 2 days fairly continuously with a relative and from having my forearm resting over the bar of the bed for lengthy periods. It's not always the wrist, it can emanate from much further back, even as far as your neck or shoulder.
I wore a watch with a big strap when I was learning to play guitar. I started a job in a printing firm around the same time were I was using different angles of pitch on keyboards (this was the 80s).
I didn't notice much at the time, but within a few years I was getting pins and needles when playing boogies along to Chuck Berry albums. Fast-forward to a few years ago and it turns out it was carpal tunnel syndrome all along. I tried the exercises occupational health therapist suggested (I've arthritis too), but, even though they improved things, I didn't have the stamina and they didn't help in the long term.
I didn't notice much at the time, but within a few years I was getting pins and needles when playing boogies along to Chuck Berry albums. Fast-forward to a few years ago and it turns out it was carpal tunnel syndrome all along. I tried the exercises occupational health therapist suggested (I've arthritis too), but, even though they improved things, I didn't have the stamina and they didn't help in the long term.
I hope that story had a happy outcome in both cases.BillDL said:I had pins and needles and numbness in my middle, ring and small finger for almost a month. It was from sitting with my elbows on a wooden handled chair in a hospital room for 2 days fairly continuously with a relative and from having my forearm resting over the bar of the bed for lengthy periods. It's not always the wrist, it can emanate from much further back, even as far as your neck or shoulder.
I've discovered that I occasionally get numbness in my pinky if I sit for lengthy perious with my left elbow and forearm on the arm of a chair, for example sitting at a computer. I must have an exposed nerve there that's more susceptible to being compressed than on my right arm. It goes away within a couple of hours though, unlike the length of time it took for the pins and needles and numbness to subside after the incident I mentioned. To answer your question @prowla it was my Mother and sadly she was fading away by that stage.
One thing I discovered from a friend of mine is that tingling or numbness in one or more fingers can sometimes be an early symptom of Parkinson's Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. He has been living with Parkinson's for quite a long time now and the first symptom was a weird tingling numbness in one of his pinkys (pinkies?).
After playing for a few hours I start to get pins and needles in my left thumb and index finger. I'm not sure if my watch is too tight and it's slowing blood flow, that will be my first test or it's the dreaded carpal tunnel.
Anybody have any experience with this?