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Just hit chair #3000 and my wrist finally gave out, listen to your hands
I was doing a taper on a regular last Thursday and my right thumb went numb mid fade. Counted it up after and that was around clipper cut 3000 for me since I started at the shop on 5th Street three years back. The thing is I ignored the tingling for about 8 months because I thought it was just from holding the clippers too tight. Now I am looking at wrist brace and a $180 chiropractor bill and cutting with my left hand half the time. If your fingers buzz after a busy Saturday do not brush it off like I did, stretch between clients or drop the clipper weight. What stretches actually work for you guys because the ones on YouTube are not doing it for me?
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christopherwilson1mo ago
Funny how we do this with everything, not just hands. Roofers with shot knees, nurses with bad backs, nobody wants to stop until something breaks. The body keeps a tab running the whole time and then hands you the bill all at once. For stretches, the ones that helped my forearms were slow wrist curls with a light dumbbell and the prayer stretch where you press your palms together and lower your hands. The YouTube stuff moves too fast, you have to hold each one a full 30 seconds or it does nothing.
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