Pool-related injury.

JoeyInCali

JoeyInCali

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Check my middle-finger out. It's swollen due to "trigger-finger".
My left hand middle-finger was operated on last May due to the same problem. It's 100% usable now.
My right-hand grip strength is down to probably 20% due to the middle finger not being able to grip.
My surgeon will cut the three pulleys holding the tendons of the middle finger this Thursday morning.
Save the dirty jokes. :D
I've heard some other pool-related injuries such as sore shoulder, back, neck, etc. Feel free to share yours. Divorce is not an injury though. :eek:
 
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pool related injury

I know my rearend hurts from the last tournament I played in. LOL!!!!!!
 
JoeyInCali said:
Check my middle-finger out. It's swollen due to "trigger-finger".
My left hand middle-finger was operated on last May due to the same problem. It's 100% usable now.
My right-hand grip strength is down to probably 20% due to the middle finger not being able to grip.
My surgeon will cut the three pulleys holding the tendons of the middle finger this Thursday morning.
Save the dirty jokes. :D
I've heard some other pool-related injuries such as sore shoulder, back, neck, etc. Feel free to share yours. Divorce is not an injury though. :eek:
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I'd just like you to explain how this could possibly be attributed to a pool injury on BOTH fingers. (Joey...gettin' ready to tell a real whopper so he can collect unemployment or disability benefits) :D
 
Holy cheese whiz Joey! You must be into intense gaming to do that!!! I have never injured my hand or fingers at pool. Ok, the time I had to punch OHB I broke all five knuckles and two carpel bones. OHB had me in intensive care for two months! :D :D
 
drivermaker said:
I'd just like you to explain how this could possibly be attributed to a pool injury on BOTH fingers. (Joey...gettin' ready to tell a real whopper so he can collect unemployment or disability benefits) :D
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The doctor tells me they have no explanation. Their best guess is trauma.
My mother has tringer finger as well due to slicing and dicing from cooking.
My aunt has some ligament problems in her FEET. Those are really painful. She has to have cotrizone shots yearly.
 
Hey Joey,

I had trigger finger in all my fingers about 5 years ago, had the surgery on all fingers and not having too many issues anymore :)
It wasnt due to pool though, as I was only 15 at the time, I blame it on the saxophone, but the doctors really had no idea, they had never seen anyone have it in all their fingers :p

Best of luck!
 
Hey Sweet Daddy ~ You going to the Windy City Open next week since you are right in Aurora next to St. Charles where the tournament is?

I was just in Palace Billiards today and John Abruzzo was telling me how he got a severe case of tendentious due to playing some guy one handed over the weekend.

I would consider that pool realted. He sure is in some pain from it.

Eydie
 
why yes I am

Sure I am . Im playing in the 9-ball and 8-ball. I plan on paying at the door because Im a lazy bum.
 
I used to get strain across my left forefinger and thumb when I first learnt how to use a closed bridge after years in the UK only ever using an open bridge. After enough practice though I don't get this unless I play a really long session.

I do still shoot with my chin right on the shaft though and sometimes get a callous/sore there, aggravated by playing with a huge American shaft instead of my old tooth-pick sized 8.5mm Snooker cue. However this sore can be a useful diagnostic tool. It mostly forms if I'm jerking my cue up at the last minute on draw shots, causing the shaft to bang hard into my chin which is a bad habit of mine. Also if I'm not stroking straight it will form to the right of center. If I feel it there I know I have to get my stroke back in line.
 
my right shoulder has been in a dull pain for the past 4 days... it seems that it's at it's worst right after i get done shooting. the pain actually goes all the way from my shoulder up my spinal cord to the back of my head :?

seeing you guys talk about trigger finger makes me wonder if i could get it from playing guitar :o.
 
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