Re: Does anyone have experience or advice about finger rehabilita
Originally Posted by
JiminRussia
... the recovery was completely different ... but the principles should be the same.
YESSS!! When I shattered my right humerus in '07, the doc said it would be a looong time before stretching around a guitar again, as in, "Don't you dare...". He was correct: 18 months to hold a dred, 3 years to relative comfort, 5-6 years to full flexibility (at least on guitar).
But I could comfortably hold a mandolin at 7-8 weeks in. That lead to way more learning and exposure, my finally (after decades of avoidance) absorbing some music theory, and playing in more groups than my wife can keep track of (some because I can switch between mandolin, guitar, bass). What I feared was the end of my musical journey turned out to be just the start.
May your rehabilitation go as well!
- Ed
"Then one day we weren't as young as before
Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
I'm a better man for just the knowin' of you."
- Ian Tyson
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