Hi Sunbeam
Forgive me about the delay in response.
This message is a point to relay some understanding of the degeneration of the left hand, it is quick to understand and is vital you understand of knowing a way how the hand becomes healed.
What I mean is you'll feel more acceptable to the technique given you understand why the later exercises are useful for building joint strength. For many instances you will not be directly touching the painful area.
I've done works on pressure points, acupuncture, and inflicting pain through pressure points (disciplined fighting...) The idea of healing your pain is to use other pressure points to relieve pressure in the left hand, thus relieving pain so strengthening can be applied to the area.
A traditional method of meditating is Lotus. One noted point in this method is the contact or resting of thumb against finger. [as if you are making a circle with thumb and finger] Hoping you know what I refer to>
The thumb in each hand carries the beat of your heart, there are several areas on the body to feel for a heart beat, though literally speaking the body is a beating biological blob.
When the thumb is resting on another finger of the same hand, pressure is equalized and the thumb beat continues into the finger, thus giving balance to the way vibration is dispersed from the thumb. The scientific part that is not felt during this is; the beat of which is vibration adds mass to the finger bones by vibrating blood, bones, and tissue to that of the thumb.
Depleting or degeneration of joints is the loss of mass in the area. Once pain has been relieved, building structural mass of ligaments, bones, and tissues is the next step. To build in mass is to rebuild the crystal structure of the depleting matter.
Given the thumb is beating to that of your heart, the sore finger eventually builds in strength for the thumb is healing the finger from the inside out...
If you would like to do a test. This test is to determine where exactly in your body is the movement happening if your hand is isolated. I'm searching for what makes your hand move or feel like moving if the whole hand can't move.
A filled container of ice and water. Container is to be large enough to submerse your left arm up to the elbow joint. The liquid also needs half a cup of normal kitchen salt. Salt reduces the freezing temperature of ice water. Allow all to dissolve. Add more ice to cover the top.
Submerse arm in water and relax. If you can put your thumb to the finger and rest like this, then do so...
By keeping the entire body still I want you to move certain areas and note which other part of your body felt like moving, any urge of any slight movement.
While left arm in water. Twist left arm clockwise and anticlockwise. Do not move the torso or any other part of the body.
Take note of what had an urge to move.
With some support around, lift the left leg off the ground about 6 inches.
Take note of what had an urge to move.
Close your eyes, and note what you feel over a 3 minute period. Things will be pretty cold for the left arm if there is plentiful ice. By observing with eyes closed for 3 minutes I'll have a better understanding of what is moving too. With eyes closed observe anything that moves or flinches.
That should be it for that.
Pain is caused by the generation of heat inside the body in the area that is sore. Either bone is against bone, or there is nothing protecting the bone from damage. While in cold water some pain is relieved on the inside of the hand. Salt also heals as salt is a crystal straight from the ocean.
Does your hand feel any comfort or relief when you have it resting in water, such as a bath or swimming pool??
There are therapeutic exercises involving water. Water is a slower medium to transverse through, adds resistance to your natural flow and thus builds inner strength without doing any intense movements.
If you could sometime in the near future try this test. I need to know what happens in the remainder of the body when the hand is dormant and under cold pressure.
Thanks, hear from you soon...