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I am a racquetball lover and was banded on 10-23. Does anyone know how long i have to wait until i can play agian?

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I have a similar question (sort of) so i'll just post it in here. I know it says no lifting anything over 10lbs for 6 weeks, but what about other activities? Specifically cleaning (pushing a mop and broom), yardwork, etc...I own a home and I live alone basically - my brother lives here but we will just say I do most everything around here. I've been staring at my floors and yard all day and they are driving me nuts! I started to rake today but got freaked out and quit. Was scared i'd do something. What is OK?

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You really need to focus on not using your stomach muscles. Sweep in small spurts, focusing on using your arms.

Be careful with raking - it feels like you are using your stomach muscles - stop. Racquetball has a lot of twisting of the abs and you use your torso – but truthfully, you can sweep and rake in small spurts without much ab movement. But make your brother pick up the leaves and bag them for you. What I did was really listen to my body, if I was tired or soar I stopped and I didn't do any heavy lifting or bending.

Take care, take it easy - a bit of a dirty house is livable compared to damaging your band!

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Very true! I need to milk it for all it's worth and ask my brother to do more. I just keep staring at my hardwood floors where the dog prints are on them and it's driving me nuts! I got some leaves that were along the path in a pile so i'll ask him to bag them up. I started to feel it so I quit and it freaked me out a bit. I could really care less about how the back looks, but they were really piling up along the front walk. But no amount of leaves are worth messing this up!!!

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I am a racquetball lover and was banded on 10-23. Does anyone know how long i have to wait until i can play agian?

I am a squash player, and played my first game last week. A bit of soreness for some of the lower dive returns, but overall, didn't kill me. I was banded a month ago.

Taz

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