Re: arthritis
my osteoarthritis is still in its infancy (and i hope it stays there) and seems to respond to rest. so i just don't play 7 days a week any more or longer than 3 hours at a time. And I had to retrain my hand to keep the wrist straight and find the best place to put my thumb, so you might want to look at your ergonomics. And i got a mandolin with a narrower neck, since the wider neck on my strad was sending shooting pains up my fretting arm from my affected thumb. This in addition to the other stuff (like surgery or topical or internal interventions) might also help.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
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