Guitar necks do make a difference

[Aceman]

Anything except the most extreme thin/flat, or largest baseball bats are fine by me.

A nice middle of the road C shape, perhaps.

 

[Demanic]

I prefer a wider neck even if it's has a thin cross section. Like the Ibanez Wizards. My Shecters have wider necks with C profiles. My Strat neck is thin but more of a D shape. Love the compound necks on my Jacksons.

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[nexion218]

Count yourself lucky. I have tennis elbow in right arm, which is now just subsiding after about 15 months. Course of recovery can be up to two years and I put myself in that category as I can still feel issues. It may never go away.

Ive watched tons of videos, performed "at home" PT, got referral from doc for real PT but because of Covid was not able/unwilling to mess with exposure/time/expense.

From my reading, PT for tennis elbow is not much better than placebo. Some people are long haulers and need significant time. Ironically, the exersize which helps me most is reverse finger extension (put fist in sock and open hand) which is not common PT for TE.

It was not caused by playing, but by guitar maintenance, a period of two weeks where I decided to level, crown and polish all my guitar necks. I probably put in 40+ hours of back/forth filing and polishing moitions in a very short period of time. I haven't played guitar since then because unsure if picking motion will exacerbate problem. Also afraid it will get worse as spring is upon us, yard work, washing cars, etc, had made it worse last summer. Its been a serious problem for me.

My left arm also screwed up by a completely torn bicep about five years ago. Had to go through surgery, change my playing position, etc, which probably altered my RH picking enough to cause the TE. It certainly limited range of motion just enough that to vibrato I need to sit in classical.

Both of my arms are ****ed. I haven't picked up guitar in 15 months. I am patient and believe I will play again.

I just wanted to point out that your recovery from TE, from everything I read about course of recovery and the role of PT, is probably just luck. PT has very low success rate for healing TE.

Wow, sorry to hear that... I was totally depressed because of it... The things is, when I do the exercises before and after playing, all is good. When I don't (only did that once since), my arm returns to being tense and weak. Either way, I do feel lucky and I hope the best for you. I'm not much of a player, but among many other good things that music does for me, guitar keeps me from drinking my brains to liquid sh!t and I was genuinely worried about the possibility of not being able to play...

 

[Aceman]

I do prefer a slightly wider neck on a classical...

 

[Mincer]

My classical is a hybrid, with the neck as wide as an average steel string. It is very easy and fun to play.

 

[JOLLY]

I have tennis elbow in right arm, which is now just subsiding after about 15 months. Course of recovery can be up to two years and I put myself in that category as I can still feel issues. It may never go away.

I feel your pain. I had tennis elbow in one elbow for about a year, maybe nine months. It really sucked with the type of work that I do, and was doing when I had it. As soon as it went away, I got tennis elbow in my other elbow, and had it for about the same amount of time. So I pretty much had tennis elbow for about two years. The only thing that I did for it was wear one of those braces around my forearm. I guess it helped.