Pain

[Bille]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask but after a couple of hours of play I get a bad pain in the big muscle that runs down from under my right arm pit. It hurt quite bad and in fact makes it hard to sleep on the same night, as I cant seem to get in a position to help the pain. A couple of days off and its all better. Anybody else had this?

[Terry Davidson]

If you are a lefty then you are putting too much tension on your bridge arm. Bend it a bit and place some weight on the forearm and bridge and it should not happen.

If you are a righty then I don't know what to tell you. Perhaps you are gripping the cue too tightly?

Terry

[the nugget]

Hi Billie I take it that its your bridge arm?, coz ive had this from time to time over the years. Had this a lot when I used to bodybuild, pain went from the lat muscle under my armpit and went right down the inside of my forearm into my fingers which gave me tingling and numbness in the fingers plus a lot of pain.It was only after giving up snooker for 12years and in the intervening years cutting back drastically on lifting did things change. Took up snoooker again after 12years but this time did a lot of stretching before i would play in the evenings and found this to make a big difference. I still get pain there from time to time but its probably due to injuries i sustained lifting for years but the stretching makes it manageable now. I would probably advise you to see your GP first(something i failed to do) just to get a professional opinion, hope this helps.

[Bille]

I'm right handed and the pain is in my right side. I try to grip with only 2 fingers and very light.

[Bille]

The pain is exactly as you describe it right down to the tingling in my fingers. I wonder if I'm standing to square to my shot and therefor having to lift my right elbow in a unnatural position. Tomorrow I will give it a go standing more side ways to the table.

[j6uk]

I think you may have a pinched nerve in your neck. I have the same thing regarding the tingling but also my middle two fingers are numb.
Do not leave it, go and have it checked..
I'm looking into massage therapy.

[Sidd]

Message therapy is the way to go...

I have had a bad case of shoulder tendinitis in my bridge arm shoulder. However, no tingling or numbness, just pain at certain angles particularly above head/neck level...

I now have this pain in both shoulders but am doing some exercises...!

If it is in your grip hand side of the body, as you say, then like me you are keeping the elbow too high and perhaps keeping it tensed.... remember keeping any body area tensed will have swollen muscles... keep it nice n easy n relaxed.

as for me, well, I have em both in pain and cant even work on my laptop anymore... will do some Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) exercises...

Cheers.

[Bille]

Thanks you all for the input and advice, I will go to the doctor and have it look at.

[Sidd]

Seems like i just discovered the problem causing tendinitis in both my shoulders... Quite interesting and I just know J6UK is gonna love this: My office chair has a problem... It goes down due to my weight and the hydrolics arent working anymore so many a times it goes down and I have to get it up again. Since I do that mostly I get tired of doing it again and again and hence end up leaving it as it is... However, when it is like that, my office table goes up (chair being down or lower than normal) and hence I have to type on my laptop in a way that my hands and arms are uppish and hence putting tension in both my shoulders..... gosh and I was cursing poor old snooker for it

J6UK seems you are right about my time on this darned computer

[DeanH]

Seems like i just discovered the problem causing tendinitis in both my shoulders... Quite interesting and I just know J6UK is gonna love this: My office chair has a problem... It goes down due to my weight and the hydrolics arent working anymore so many a times it goes down and I have to get it up again. Since I do that mostly I get tired of doing it again and again and hence end up leaving it as it is... However, when it is like that, my office table goes up (chair being down or lower than normal) and hence I have to type on my laptop in a way that my hands and arms are uppish and hence putting tension in both my shoulders..... gosh and I was cursing poor old snooker for it

J6UK seems you are right about my time on this darned computer

oh dear god, we will never hear the end of it!
only kidding
Sidd, if you are an office working on terminals all day then yes having a correctly setup desktop environment is very important.
I have a standard office chair but it is correctly setup for me, also the distance to the table that you can get to in the chair is important. so you do not over reach to the keyboard and mouse, etc.
Also the height of the screen has to be so that your head does not drop forward or (worst in my opinion) lean back.
From your description, it sounds that the height of the chair could be the culprit but also check that you are not too far from the desk and the keyboard/mouse. Over reaching in the years past gave me tendonitis in both elbows which has played havoc with my snooker/pool for many years till I got acupuncture to reduce the pain to a level that is nearly gone completely (which it never will).

[Sidd]

oh dear god, we will never hear the end of it!
only kidding
Sidd, if you are an office working on terminals all day then yes having a correctly setup desktop environment is very important.
I have a standard office chair but it is correctly setup for me, also the distance to the table that you can get to in the chair is important. so you do not over reach to the keyboard and mouse, etc.
Also the height of the screen has to be so that your head does not drop forward or (worst in my opinion) lean back.
From your description, it sounds that the height of the chair could be the culprit but also check that you are not too far from the desk and the keyboard/mouse. Over reaching in the years past gave me tendonitis in both elbows which has played havoc with my snooker/pool for many years till I got acupuncture to reduce the pain to a level that is nearly gone completely (which it never will).

Yes I was a fool and was putting everything on wrong snooker. How I figured this out well I havent played snooker for more than a week now since that darned police raid at my club and have been very busy at work. Most of my day is spent writing reports and correcting/editing reports of subordinate staff hence I am a desk worker.

I have also developed capillaritis in both my feet n lower legs due to the fact that I do not walk around a bit and stay in my chair 8 hours a day... I have started taking mini breaks now but the capillary damage is permanent so I will have those little red marks on my legs forever

So I havent gone to play snooker for many days and yet the pain in both my shoulders is still there and additionally I have pain in my neck; both sides... There I was cursing snooker for this all this time and trying to change technique bloody old me !

I know its time to get some organomics going on. I will take my mini breaks and walk about a little in office every 2-3 hours and also will make sure my chair height and reach is OK.

[DeanH]

if your organisation does not have a desktop environment assessment program/person, then there are websites with info to help you get your own environment better for you. You may be surprised (or maybe not actually) how a little change can reap big results in pain free working and snooker playing (our goal )
But a word of caution, do not become obsessed with the work space environment, do not tinker, do an assessment, make changes then move on, as you know the current pain can take a while to dissipate

[Sidd]

Will do so...

And thanks for the tip for not getting obsessed with work environment ... you know me better now... I do happen to have a great tendency for that

Thanks again !

[Terry Davidson]

Sidd:

I wonder how many changes you made in your snooker technique in order to try and get rid of the shoulder/neck pain and if any of those corrections have become permanent.

You just might have to tinker some more to get back to where you are more natural in your set-up and technique (although I really hate to tell you that!)

Terry

[itsnoteasy]

Sidd:

I wonder how many changes you made in your snooker technique in order to try and get rid of the shoulder/neck pain and if any of those corrections have become permanent.

You just might have to tinker some more to get back to where you are more natural in your set-up and technique (although I really hate to tell you that!)

Terry

Oh Terry, what have you done.