Playing a concert and bowing with a frozen shoulder and a hurting armsinew

April 5, 2008 at 2:14 PM

I wrote (with my left hand, which I still do) on 25 februari on my blog, because of a fall on my elbow (with elbowprotectors!!, safety first) on ice on 1 januari 2008: "I am injured in my schoulder, because of a fall on the ice during skating ( I had luck I wear my icehockeyshoulderprotector otherwise the consequenses of the fall would be worse said the fysiotherapeut) and during a rehearsal of an orchestra I went to home because of the pain. The pain is now diminishing because of treatment by a fysiotherapeut."
I am doing 3 times a day strechingexercises with my shoulder to give more room in my shoulder so the inflamation of the sinew in my arm will diminish. The fysiotherapeut says it will take at least 3 months to get my shoulder unfrozen and my arm normal again.
My violinteacher has had the same injury and stopped lessons till I will be healthy again. The fysiotherapeut siad that it was important for me to excercise my right arm a little till it hurts, so I try to play violin a little bit. I only could bow a little bit with my right hand against the right site of my body resting on my left leg. I also use my left hand to bow by moving the violin up or down, so I did not need to use my right arm. I got trouble to play the Ging, because than I have to lift up my right arm too much and hurt my armsinew. So I changed my shoulderrest of my violin, so now the violin is in a more vertical position, so I can easier bow on my Ging. Of course I could not play with this injury the fast 1/16 notes, so I only play every 1/4 note, so I left 3 of the 4 notes to stay in the right rhythm.
Today we had the last general rehearsal and tomorrow is the concert. I think a lot of people in the audiece will make remarks of that strange playing 1th violinist, but the orchestra did not forbid me to play, so I can play this beautiful and unknown harp-concerto of Reinecke.

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on April 6, 2008 at 3:21 AM

One of my adult students had a modest injury in his right arm recently, and his doctor told him to stop playing the violin for a while. My student did most of his practicing pizzicato, and only used his bow for a few minutes each day. His injury has healed, and he can play normally now. I hope your injury heals soon, Bram.

From Bilbo Prattle
Posted on April 6, 2008 at 10:09 PM

Ouch.

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