Taping Forearms to Prevent Tendonitis

[Scooter]

From this afternoon's "Rumour Mill Roundup" newsletter, from the WFCA:

Study Shows Forearm Taping Can Reduce Incidence of Common Planting Injury

This spring, Okanagan College and Total Physiotherapy in Houston, BC, collaborated on a field research project studying preventative strategies for a form of tendinitis that commonly affects tree planters. Tendinitis of the thumb, termed de Quervain’s tenosynovitis, is a frequent early season tree planting injury occurring on the shovel side. Total Physiotherapy, which has become well known to planting crews due to their successful strategies in reducing various planting injuries, has successfully treated de Quervain’s through a comprehensive injury prevention program, which includes education, monitoring and support, and taping. The purpose of the research was to assess if early intervention through preventative taping at the beginning of the planting season would help reduce the incidence and impact of this painful condition. This study, funded through the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), concluded the results supported the use of prophylactic taping for tree planters to reduce the incidence of de Quervain’s. To read more on the research click here. There will be an opportunity to learn more about this study and on helping prevent this common tendinitis at the 2018 WFCA Annual Conference, Tradeshow and AGM in Kelowna 7-9 February 2018.

[HarrisonBor]

Taping and 888 casino promo codes have helped a LOT with reoccurring tendo in my arms and hands. Can't express this enough.

I guess there's no harm in doing research, but I'd be suprised as heck if this worked. What do you think?

[srochon]

Taping and compression sleeves have helped a LOT with reoccurring tendo in my arms and hands. Can't express this enough.

[Cyper]

The most progressive and safety proactive licensees are providing compression sleeves to their contract crews - TimberWest on the south Island for one. very positive results from what I've heard.

[Scooter]

I don't know much about the physiology of compression, so I just read this article:
http://www.fleetfeethartford.com/sports ... ompression

I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it seems that there is some medical basis for using compression as one extra way of minimizing tendonitis.

[jdtesluk]

There is also an applied dimension. Consider this. When you ride your bike in the cold, you tend to squeeze the bars, and have trouble shifting gears with your chilly digits. Same thing applies to shovels and trees. People compensate for feeling with force--- can't move the fingers around the tree as well or manipulate the shovel as nimbly..so you hamfist it a bit.

When you squeeze harder and apply more force (with decreased accuracy) you are concocting a recipe for tendo. An arm sleeve can help keep you warm, keep your dexterity up, and help you maintain good ergo technique as you work.

So that relates to any arm sleeve potentially (even just wool sleeves) but perhaps doubly to warming compression sleeves.

As for the article with the socks, I turned to those years ago and never went back. I used to hear about loggers that wore pantyhose socks, and it wasn't a Monty Python skit. They would wear several panty hose socks as an improvised compression sock--- mainly to prevent swelling of the foot. Darned loggers were endurance athletes before gatorade existed.

[_I3^RELATIVISM]

I would say it helps a lot, last season I started to feel some effects of tennis arm, or whatever is called. And it actually help me a lot to recuperate, it prevents it to get inflamed and therefore healing faster, off course it never heals 100% but it does heal.