Any warmups/ stretches you do to prepare your fingers/ wrists to avoid carpel tunnel?

[daviseri]

I’m a new player and wondering if there are stretches or things players do before or after to keep in good working order?

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

There will be many differences in opinion or advice for you, apart from my own, comng up no doubt.

Myself, as someone whose played concertina for 34 years now, between doing other things too ( art and design).. maybe that's one hint; keep your hands supple, relax when you play, to avoid tensing up the tendons and  rest between practicing; you do not have to overdo the physical practice, I think personally, as a lot of intuitive development also takes place in the mind as well . Between physical practice   

 

[daviseri]

Thanks for this

[wunks]

Perhaps try a different mind set.  I don't think of concertina playing as conducive to carpal tunnel or other problems, but rather as a therapeutic exercise in itself.