| BHR-3 said: docotors are morons you should keep the gameplay down though but in the mean time try putting lavender oil mixed with st johns oil and olive oil on the effective area a few times a day let me know if you want to try it i'll give you the exact amounts of each oil to make the concoction also very warm water with massage helps too
100hrs a week yeah thats alot you should drop down to 30-40hr besides nerve damage there are other health risks to gaming that are even much worse than your wrist hurting |
So doctors are morons and he should listen to an 11 year old from Antartica :P.
If he is having problems with his thumb it is most likely related to impingement of his median nerve in the carpel tunnel. Although there may be an inflammatory component it is a mechanical problem which will be you'll have about as much luck treating with oils or any other pharmacopoeia as you will trying to mend a broken arm with some smelling salts.
The long term effects of letting this go unchecked or continuing the activity which either caused or exacerbated the problem are a little worse than a little bit of pain in the wrist. The long term effects could be; loss of sensation on the lateral aspect of the hand, loss of muscular strength and wasting of the thumb muscles, inability to grasp properly and ultimately deformity of the hand. Not good if you are in any kind of job that actully requires you to use both your hands.
Does he need to quit gaming, probably no. Does he need to cut down or quit for now, certainly. Can there be more serious side effects to your health from gaming besides a sore wrist, yes, but I'd argue that loss of function of a hand is quite serious enough.
Would you be willing to stand by your advice that his wrist should be fine if he 'only' gamed 30-40 hours a week and rubbed a bit of St John's and Lavendar oil on his wrist.....? Of course you don't have to because you are just some guy on a message board but his doctor has to be able to stand behind his advice and he obviously thought, for now, that there was no safe level of gaming for young Blink182.
I know who's advice I'd be listening to ;)
p.s. although I could be totally wrong and it might have nothing to do with the median nerve :)
