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...in order to go to the pool today, and then it turns out that you might have to go for real.
Hubris, probably.
It's nothing serious, or so I hope, but extremely annoying, and it might mean no tennis for the foreseeable future. Bugger.
For those who don't play tennis: the leading hand (I'm right-handed) has to take enormous strain, especially when you play forehand. If you have the wrong technique, you immediately pay the price and get tennis elbow, which thankfully I don't have. But, in order to give the ball a good top spin when you hit it, not only do you have to tilt the racquet forward/downward, you also have to reinforce this already top-spin-inducing position by giving the racquet a twist with your wrist when you hit the ball. Since I really got the hang of the top spin, i.e. last November or so, I've been noticing a certain tendency of my right middle and ring fingers to cramp occasionally, claw-like. It wasn't often, and it wasn't painful -- I just had to pry them open and stretch them, and that was that.
Now, however, the symptoms are different: there's still no pain at all, but the two fingers have developed a sort of tic, twitching in- and downwards when I'm holding them in a relaxed, slightly bent position. This is awkward, to say the least (think application of eyeliner) and, while I don't think it's an inflamed tendon -- because that hurts like blazes -- I'm sure it has to be some sort of neurological problem, maybe a squashed nerve. Not carpal tunnel, I'm glad to say, because the fingers don't go numb.
So I'll have to see whether my orthopedist is in Skopje next week, and have her have a look at it. Much though I love tennis, risking some serious damage by ignoring the problem would be stupid in the extreme.
Still: BUGGER!
Hubris, probably.
It's nothing serious, or so I hope, but extremely annoying, and it might mean no tennis for the foreseeable future. Bugger.
For those who don't play tennis: the leading hand (I'm right-handed) has to take enormous strain, especially when you play forehand. If you have the wrong technique, you immediately pay the price and get tennis elbow, which thankfully I don't have. But, in order to give the ball a good top spin when you hit it, not only do you have to tilt the racquet forward/downward, you also have to reinforce this already top-spin-inducing position by giving the racquet a twist with your wrist when you hit the ball. Since I really got the hang of the top spin, i.e. last November or so, I've been noticing a certain tendency of my right middle and ring fingers to cramp occasionally, claw-like. It wasn't often, and it wasn't painful -- I just had to pry them open and stretch them, and that was that.
Now, however, the symptoms are different: there's still no pain at all, but the two fingers have developed a sort of tic, twitching in- and downwards when I'm holding them in a relaxed, slightly bent position. This is awkward, to say the least (think application of eyeliner) and, while I don't think it's an inflamed tendon -- because that hurts like blazes -- I'm sure it has to be some sort of neurological problem, maybe a squashed nerve. Not carpal tunnel, I'm glad to say, because the fingers don't go numb.
So I'll have to see whether my orthopedist is in Skopje next week, and have her have a look at it. Much though I love tennis, risking some serious damage by ignoring the problem would be stupid in the extreme.
Still: BUGGER!
