Has medical science progressed far enough for thumb transplants?

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I'd say this comes from my years of running bread routes and reaching down in between two loaves of bread at a time and using my pointer finger and thumb to pinch together to grab them both and make stocking the shelf quicker. Or, perhaps it's from cracking my knuckles at the base of my thumb for a couple years (though it doesn't affect my right hand at all). Or, maybe it's partially from playing guitar for so many years. Anywho, it's been getting worse the last year or so, but sometimes I'll be playing, and not even a hard part or tricky part at all, and there is a shooting pain in my left thumb, primarily at the base just above where it transitions to the wrist. It seems to come from about the middle of that lower joint if you were looking straight down at the top of my thumb, so not really in the meaty part more to the palm side.

Anyways, I haven't really gotten to touch guitar in about a month, other than a few minutes the other day. But today was the first time I've really been able to get a guitar out and touch it due to having to pack everything up. It is enough to make me stop playing and bitch about it for a few seconds before starting back up. I'm sure if I was playing live, I'd be able to just deal with it and move on and maybe give it a rubdown between songs, or in a guitar break or something, but dammit it sucks. Can they do thumb transplants so I don't have to deal with this anymore?

I cracked my knuckles for YEARS as a child and teen and even young adult, and they see WAY more action when playing guitar, or typing on the keyboard, or from the years of studying and teaching martial arts, but it's this one damn joint on the thumb and that's the only thing.
 
Matt300ZXT said:
I'd say this comes from my years of running bread routes and reaching down in between two loaves of bread at a time and using my pointer finger and thumb to pinch together to grab them both and make stocking the shelf quicker. Or, perhaps it's from cracking my knuckles at the base of my thumb for a couple years (though it doesn't affect my right hand at all). Or, maybe it's partially from playing guitar for so many years. Anywho, it's been getting worse the last year or so, but sometimes I'll be playing, and not even a hard part or tricky part at all, and there is a shooting pain in my left thumb, primarily at the base just above where it transitions to the wrist. It seems to come from about the middle of that lower joint if you were looking straight down at the top of my thumb, so not really in the meaty part more to the palm side.

Anyways, I haven't really gotten to touch guitar in about a month, other than a few minutes the other day. But today was the first time I've really been able to get a guitar out and touch it due to having to pack everything up. It is enough to make me stop playing and bitch about it for a few seconds before starting back up. I'm sure if I was playing live, I'd be able to just deal with it and move on and maybe give it a rubdown between songs, or in a guitar break or something, but dammit it sucks. Can they do thumb transplants so I don't have to deal with this anymore?

I cracked my knuckles for YEARS as a child and teen and even young adult, and they see WAY more action when playing guitar, or typing on the keyboard, or from the years of studying and teaching martial arts, but it's this one damn joint on the thumb and that's the only thing.
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Specialized joint replacement. Prolly not 😕. Give it a few years. Stem cells might help regrow the joint when all is said and done on bony arthritis.
 
Try some ice and tiger balm on that sore joint. Maybe take some glucosamine supplements.

How's the move going @Matt300ZXT ?
 
VonBonfire said:
Try some ice and tiger balm on that sore joint. Maybe take some glucosamine supplements.

How's the move going @Matt300ZXT ?
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It doesn't hurt long enough that putting anything on it would do much, it's just a shooting pain now and then. It's not like a pulled muscle or anything. I suppose I could try the glucosamine supplement to see if it helps, or just eat more fat from these tasty ribeyes and pork chops and see if that helps 😎
 
Matt300ZXT said:
It doesn't hurt long enough that putting anything on it would do much, it's just a shooting pain now and then. It's not like a pulled muscle or anything. I suppose I could try the glucosamine supplement to see if it helps, or just eat more fat from these tasty ribeyes and pork chops and see if that helps 😎
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I wonder if it's not a nerve related pain more than a joint induced pain since you mentioned "shooting pains".
 
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