[pauld]

has anyone else experienced this ?
After using using WFP for a year and a half I started to occasionally get this sharp pain around the base of the thumb and 1st finger
around the wrist. It feels like someone has stuck a knife in there and is twisting it !!! it came and went at first but now it,s becoming constant and Today it,s been excrushiating !
PS I,ve been using harris poles with the tight screw grips and I think that may have been the cause.

[niceandclean]

I get it from time to time in the base of the thumb, like you say, its like being stabbed with something sharp. I put it down to gripping the pole all day, rsi and all that.

[jouk45]

buy foam bike handle grips that have the finger impressions on them,, not the plastic ones,  they fit on the harris perfect, and they slide up and down to suit your arm length,

[richard jagger]

I have found I put 28mm ID lagging used for pluming copper pipe in winter. This I had to shop around for as it is not standerd. Go to a proper Pluming supply shop. This I slip over the harries pole and glue to and bottom and tie tight with tie wire and cover with duck tape. The pole is never cold and comfortable in the hand.

[jouk45]

I have found I put 28mm ID lagging used for pluming copper pipe in winter. This I had to shop around for as it is not standerd. Go to a proper Pluming supply shop. This I slip over the harries pole and glue to and bottom and tie tight with tie wire and cover with duck tape. The pole is never cold and comfortable in the hand.

your better of using heat shrink tubing 50mm any colour, if you are going to all that length
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/50mm-Black-Heat-Shrink-Tubing-2-x-300mm-lengths_W0QQitemZ260577183184QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Cars_Parts_Vehicles_Terminals_Cabling_ET?hash=item3cab9c45d0

[windowswashed]

Perhaps you are twisting your ligaments around your tenons with the twisting motions on the twist to lock style clamps. Try using lever style clamps instead

[jouk45]

could be the hand is bigger than the pole section, i use to get numbness, then put the bike foam grips on, been ok since,

[Alan McTernan]

I get this with pressure washing, so i use Rigger Gloves, you get them from "Struass" workwear they are designed to stop carpal tunnel and other impact/gripping problems!!! They have helped me out

Regards
Alan

[AuRavelling79]

When I started wfp I had an unger twist lock pole and my hands really ached badly after a while. Then I went to a fishing pole and the problem stopped. Since then I've gone to an SLX and have no probs.

It's the twist lock function that hurt.

Change your pole if the above remedies don't work.

[Window Washers]

what you do with a movement needs to be reversed also because if it is not you will do damage at some point.

My bro-inlaw is a physio