Powerball and Tendinitis

Hi, quite a time since the last post, busy with holidays : )

In december when I was going around amazon I saw an ad of a "Powerball".

At first i thought it was some kind of portable batteries, eheheh, power+ball : )
After some research I found out that it was a rotor that works at high speeds and generate a strong force and that was recommended to tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. I used to have tendinitis and playing guitar and typing too much never went very well for me. It seemed quite fun, then I decided to give it a try and I got three of these, also as a present to my girlfriend.

Well, it turned up a really good for forearm muscles, and I really feel that it helped a lot with my tendinitis. I can play guitar now and then, and also working without feeling some annoying pains I would get normally.

And they even have a life-time guarantee for changing parts or broken ball. One of the ones I bought does a bit of strange noise and doesn't go too high anymore, they might be sending the changing parts next days.

And it's really fun and addictive. It has a sort of speedometer that shows the number of rotations for minute. My record so far is 12.400. I know not too high, but I haven't spend so much time also. You usually do sessions, that you keep it rotating with the weak hand (my left) and then transfer to the right to get the highest speed. It's funny that when I start I get around 11.000, after 10-15 minutes I get close to my record, 12.000.

It's also funny when you see someone else doing it (don't' think of anything else). In this movie, the powerball world champion at more than 16.000 rotations per minute speed.



I have it for a bit more than a month but I can tell that it's really worthwhile. If you have tendinitis or any other hand or arm injure, start slow, but you definitely will feel improvements.

• To buy:

I bought with amazon. A "professional" version, which is the one with the counter (no fun if you can't see how fast you go) in amazon is 13 pounds. In the original website is 23!! Don't ask me how amazon manage to sell so cheap...

You can buy cheap here:

A couple of links:
http://www.powerballs.com/benefits_rehab.php
http://www.powerballs.com/forum/