As I’ve aged I have noticed that my old hands have acquired a few quirks along the way and I’ve wondered how common these things are among my guitar/bass playing comrades.
In the last few years I have noticed a definite slowing of several of my finger joints with a dull pain that exists in them 24 hours per day. Currently, when I get up in the morning and until I work it out, I find the second knuckle of the index finger of my right hand will actually pop causing the finger to jump, as I slowly open my fingers from a fist position. As a finger picking bass player I have found that I seem to have lost some of the speed/agility that I once had as a result of these aging joints.
Just curious if anyone else has experienced something like this and found an aid/exercise to combat the situation. I found some exercises on the old inter-webs that seem to help but I have never heard so many popping sounds come from my knuckles in the past.