I'm 61 and my bones feel it when I get up from a crouched position.
 
Of course bending at the waist is not good for someone like me (with a chronic back problem for 30 years).

I was going to read this, but I can't find my glasses.

I've developed a condition known as (I'm sure this is incorrectly spelled) DuPuyters Contraction. It's been getting worse over the last five years. It manifests itself with gnarly looking swellings in some of the tendons in my hands. In fact, my right hand pinky is now at a permanent 90 degree angle and the index finger on that hand is at about 70 degrees. It is not painful in the least...it just restricts motion. My Doc says they can fix it with surgery...on both hands. And probably before too long I'll let them.

As I'm both a keyboardist and guitarist it has proved ironically beneficial to my guitar playing and detrimental to my keyboard playing. My pinky being bent allows me to play much better "claw style" stuff on guitar. But it also precludes me from reaching octaves as well as some arpeggiated runs on keys.

As with every other damned malady that has crept up on me as I age...I'm just rolling with the punches.

I'll tell you one thing. M.D. doctors treat patients like a hunk of meat.
There has been nothing that could not be fixed by one of the D.O. doctors or chiropractors that I have had, and an M.D. would probably have performed surgery.
 
"According to the AOA, osteopathic manipulative treatment is considered to be only one component of osteopathic medicine and may be used alone or in combination with pharmacotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, patient education, diet, and exercise. OMT techniques are not necessarily unique to osteopathic medicine; other disciplines, such as physical therapy or chiropractics, use similar techniques.[12] OMT can be considered as a treatment for certain musculoskeletal problems such as lower back pain."

https://en.wikipedia.org/..._manipulative_medicine

It might take some time for the body to heal its self, but surgery is not always the answer needed.
And with some illnesses viruses and bacterias that the body is fighting does not require surgery to fix all the time.
 
If surgery is needed, it is going to be the last option with me, because I have been through it, and I know it can work.
Bringing a meat cleaver to the party when it is only requiring a knife so to speak (an adjustment) is just what it sounds like - a quick way to fix something that usually leaves the person worse off in the end further on down the road.
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In a lot of cases, the body can heal its self, otherwise no one would be alive in this world except for a few minutes when born.
Adjusting the body so the paths are cleared lets the body get on with healing where it was stopped so to say before.
 
And it probably won't cost as much and the person will be feeling fine quicker.
Meat grinders - yuck!
 
But what kind of doctor a person sees, is up to that person.
 
 

yorolpal
I've developed a condition known as (I'm sure this is incorrectly spelled) DuPuyters Contraction. It's been getting worse over the last five years. It manifests itself with gnarly looking swellings in some of the tendons in my hands. In fact, my right hand pinky is now at a permanent 90 degree angle and the index finger on that hand is at about 70 degrees. It is not painful in the least...it just restricts motion. My Doc says they can fix it with surgery...on both hands. And probably before too long I'll let them.

As I'm both a keyboardist and guitarist it has proved ironically beneficial to my guitar playing and detrimental to my keyboard playing. My pinky being bent allows me to play much better "claw style" stuff on guitar. But it also precludes me from reaching octaves as well as some arpeggiated runs on keys.

As with every other damned malady that has crept up on me as I age...I'm just rolling with the punches.

You're not alone ol pal.
I have Dupuytren's contracture. in both hands. Mostly in the right hand. The deformity goes right down the middle of my palm pulling all the fingers down. Mostly the middle finger. I guess eventually you end up with a fist without the operation. I've never been to a doctor about it (or anything else for that matter) but I may check into it this year.
 
It has really put a damper on my playing. As you said, especially on keys. I don't even bother much with the keys much anymore.
 
 

There are stretching exercises you can do to minimize and postpone the effects. Check into that, ol pal. Sorry your in the DC club too.

Take your 81mg tablet of aspirin, eat veggies, less red meat or none, call your doctor in the morning.
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Or move to Ecuador, Costa Rica, or perhaps Panama City. Others are!
 

Bill, I feel your pain. In the last six months the knuckle in the middle of my left index finger has begun to really hurt me when I play an open C major chord.
Voltaren Gel helps. It is a NASAID but gets into your bloodsteam 94% less than an oral NASAID like ibuprofen. It stays VERY local, you apply it every 4 hours and it really does help. It is by prescription but you should have no trouble getting it. Compounding pharmacies make other creams and gels with the sae ingredient and others that make it work faster and longer. I don't know if there may be a surgical answer.
I had plaintar fasciitis for about a year and a half. I thought it would NEVER go away. I went to an orthopedic surgeon. He told me to take 4 ibuprofen, every four hours.. up to 3200mg a day. I did that for a month or so and it started to go away. It is still there if I wear the wrong shoes but if I take care it no longer bothers me.
For local arthritis and tendon stuff the Voltaren Gel really work well and is very safe.
 
I sometimes tell people, "if it works and does not hurt... I wonder what is wrong with it". The older you get, the harder it gets... except for "it".
 
J