Pain while playing / Stretches before you play

[voodoochilimoog]

Hey everyone. I’ve been developing some burning pain in my forearm while playing keys over the last week or two. I gave it a few days to heal but it’s still bothering me.

Do you guys have a set of stretches you do before/while you play?

I’m going to let my pain go away, do some forearm strength training for a week, then get back to it. I’ve learned that playing through the pain ONLY makes things worse.

Let me know what you do for physical pain whilst playing

Regards,

Sky

[Voltor07]

First of all, prevention is key. Always play using good posture, and keep your arms level with the keyboard. If you play while standing, set your keyboard stand on a couple two by fours to raise the keyboard to arm height, or use a taller stand. For extensive playing, try windmill exercises and toe touches for a couple minutes after each half hour of playing. Hope you feel better!