30th October 2005, 09:14 PM
Pete,
Sorry to question your experience, you clearly know what you're talking about with that experience.
My ailment is thankfully seeming to resolve itself, but I'll know more after visiting Doc tomorrow. It was a general siezing up of joints after a hard days work following on from a virus of some type. Felt like the end at the time.
I think you are right about injuries particular to archs. I've met many who get trowelling RSI, and I've got a bad shoulder partly from lifting buckets. The lifting/twisting shovelling action is murder too. I'm a big fan of long handled shovels that seem to be in more common usage these days.
Sorry to question your experience, you clearly know what you're talking about with that experience.
My ailment is thankfully seeming to resolve itself, but I'll know more after visiting Doc tomorrow. It was a general siezing up of joints after a hard days work following on from a virus of some type. Felt like the end at the time.
I think you are right about injuries particular to archs. I've met many who get trowelling RSI, and I've got a bad shoulder partly from lifting buckets. The lifting/twisting shovelling action is murder too. I'm a big fan of long handled shovels that seem to be in more common usage these days.