{"id":32483,"date":"2025-04-30T07:47:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=32483"},"modified":"2025-05-21T10:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:12:37","slug":"a-pain-in-the-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/30\/a-pain-in-the-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"A PAIN IN THE THUMB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI went to the Cleveland Clinic for tendinitis, caused by playing clarinet too much. The pain started in my right thumb and then went all over. The doc told me to bring my clarinet to the appointment. He was a violinist and regular attendee of the Marlboro Music Festival. He was a neurologist with a side hustle &#8212; music-related injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The doc quickly shipped me off to a PT &#8212; the\u00a0 real fix-it person at hospitals. The PT was good. He said, \u201cYou can\u2019t stop playing. You\u2019re a professional.\u201d Right on.<\/p>\n<p>But my thumb was <em>not<\/em> good (although it did eventually get better in a year and a half). I don&#8217;t know why it got better. I even drove down to Cincinnati to see a doc there who specializes in clarinet players. You do extreme things when, say, lifting a coffee cup feels like a bag of potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Cincinnati didn&#8217;t help. Musculoskeletal problems &#8212; they&#8217;re hard to put a finger on. An older friend said, &#8220;Just wait until your internal organs go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Waiting\u00a0 . . .<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-33107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/doc-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/doc-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/doc.jpg 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I went to the Cleveland Clinic for tendinitis, caused by playing clarinet too much. The pain started in my right thumb and then went all over. The doc told me to bring my clarinet to the appointment. He was a violinist and regular attendee of the Marlboro Music Festival. He was a neurologist with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32483"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33108,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32483\/revisions\/33108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}