At 12:54 PM 2/25/02 -0500, John Feriera wrote: >At 10:31 AM 2/25/02 -0500, Kirk Olsen wrote: >>A friend of mine has severe carpal tunnel in his wrists. He designed and >>built a paddle to alleviate the stress on his wrists. It's a more extreme >>solution than the crank shaft paddles. > >It's not the paddle that causes carpal tunnel syndrome or wrist >injuries. It's how one uses the paddle. The issue for my friend was that he had carpal tunnel when he started paddling. Using an unfeathered straight shafted paddle exacerbates his carpal tunnel. He felt the options were to get a different style of paddle or stop paddling. kirk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 10:51:08 PST
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