{"id":1048,"date":"2009-09-24T19:26:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T18:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:48:11","slug":"yes-i-have-arthritic-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/yes-i-have-arthritic-fingers.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I have arthritic fingers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some more trouble with my aching and increasingly strange-looking fingers (see July&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/upside-down-off-diagonal.html\">Upside-down<\/a> post) and I&#8217;m thinking maybe it&#8217;s time to seek a professional opinion. So I took them to Chris Ellis today, with the result being confirmation of my suspicion that they&#8217;re getting arthritic.<!--more--> Probably, given the amount of climbing I&#8217;m doing and non-continuous nature of my climbing past, exacerbated (rather than caused) by climbing. And probably also therefore (to quote\/paraphrase Chris) &#8216;involving an element of bad luck&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>So Chris pointed me at some useful material on the web, we discussed the implications and I came home happy enough to have a definite diagnosis ruling out the kinds of other finger injuries that could prove more instantly traumatic when climbing. Because, let&#8217;s be quite clear about this, it doesn&#8217;t mean no more climbing although it might well affect route choice (think I&#8217;m possibly already over-gripping on the kind of steeper, more fingery routes I&#8217;m looking to improve on) and how I manage it. And probably isn&#8217;t great news long term for either my hobbies or my day job.<\/p>\n<p>That said, you know where I&#8217;m heading tonight?<\/p>\n<p>(Clue, two words, something like cl*mb*ng w*ll!)<\/p>\n<p>:-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some more trouble with my aching and increasingly strange-looking fingers (see July&#8217;s Upside-down post) and I&#8217;m thinking maybe it&#8217;s time to seek a professional opinion. So I took them to Chris Ellis today, with the result being confirmation of my suspicion that they&#8217;re getting arthritic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}