Local Doctors Warning

[White Noise]

Hi all I have had aches and pains due to the nature of the job for many years . All my working life since leaving school in 1986 has been brutal on my body and is now starting to affect everyday working life . So as many of us just carry on regardless and put off going to the Doctors. As we all know our own bodies better than anyone else . I decided after many threats by the good lady indoors I shall visit the Doc . Anyway turns out that I have Tendinitis / Rotor cuff injury . Advice was to avoid activities that aggravate the problem . Well thats nearly all Tree work . To top it off I may have Calcium deposits . I think it has a lot to do with the long handled hedge work . So even though Im going to up my supplements I think hedge work duties will have to be past on . Trouble is nobody can quite cut the mustard . Hedge works takes practice and a good eye . Think I should be a Bonsai Specialist

[tommer9]

Go and see a physiotherapist, ignore that silly doctor....

[not for sale sorry]

that sucks mate hopw it dosent affect you to much, i have seen alot of people saying latly they are getting injuries after working in this game for along time,i am just really starting of hope it does not happen to me in the long run , alot of people say stuf like yoga works well i might have a crack with me misses might standme in good sted for long turm maybe, hope you get better

[combined tree services]

when i was 22 i was working on a night job , i was about to lower section of sycamore down and asked the groudsman to let the section run so that it did not come back and hit me !! to cut a long storey short he didnt let it run instead he held tight and the section of timber came back and dislocated my right shoulder . when i got to hospital they maniulated my shoulder back into it socket . and was told i would be off work for at leat 2-3 months . 5 days later a saw the ortherpedic surgeon who told me that he could not see me going back to climbing trees !!! but with 6 months of physio and alot of will power a gradually got back to work and eventually got back to climbing !! but the problem has not ended as i have dislocated my shoulder several times since but with more physio (some of it being private and costing alot) i have built up the strength in my shoulder .

 

at first i thought that my tree surgery carer was over just as it was getting started . but it turned out to be totally different . so dont give up mate

[Stephen Blair]

sorry to hear that mate, i am fed up with a sore back big time, i have had it since i was 14, i am nearly 34. if i work like a dog it isnt too bad, but the rest of my body suffers and the vibrsations on my hands are a killer. i have been seeing the ostio 1 or 2 tmes a month now for 13 years. it affect my life so much, cant wash the car, cant do the garden, i have to get others to move things for me. carrying the kids is almost a no goer. it is fine by the end of the night as i have loosened up, but the mornings are a nightmare. i am sitting on a bouncy ball just now and i have shooting pains up my back. my spine is fine, it is all muscular, and i have been told yoga and stretching will cure my problem, so i am fed up making excuses for not doing this and being in pain. so yoga it is and i am off to see if a mate of mine who runs the gym will give me some personal training. and the mini loader is getting dropped off this week for a demo aswell.

[White Noise]

Cheers guys I,m going for a sauna sometime this week and a sports massage . I,ll just keep plodding on until then . Was thinking about going back to a 4 day week . That will leave me sat , sun and monday free . Any younger climbers out there should strive to get in a good working position and use any advances in tree climbing to there advantage . thanks again .

[Stephen Blair]

i went round our local trim track, 15 different work station over 1km and joined my gym.

feeling better already:thumbup:

[White Noise]

i went round our local trim track, 15 different work station over 1km and joined my gym.

feeling better already:thumbup:

 

You must be on something . You been Fungi tasting at that there show

[Stephen Blair]

life mate, positive mental thinking. good thoughts make you feel good, bad thoughts eat you up and drain you of energy. arbtalk medicine every time mate:thumbup1:

[White Noise]

life mate, positive mental thinking. good thoughts make you feel good, bad thoughts eat you up and drain you of energy. arbtalk medicine every time mate:thumbup1:

 

Yeah your right there. Arbtalk medicine isnt prescription its an addiction . Trouble is though when you intend to spend 15 / 20 minutes browsing it nearly always ends up being hours .