Guitar playing injury's???

Worst injuries I get when playing, are to my pride, when I ask my wife, "how dose it sound ?", and the bugger tells me.
tonyblue

Threw my back out once. That sheet music can be really heavy.
toots

Hey Doc! Good to have ya back Just curious... Have you tried different scale length guitars or different playing positions, like a neck up classical position to offer you some relief. I sometimes use the classical (neck up body on left leg)position to play... It seems less stressful to me and I can play longer without fatigue that way. It keeps the elbow at more of a 45 degree angle versus the 90 degree angle of standard position. I'm sure you've probably tried these already but wanted to mention them just incase... All the best! -Pix

OK, so I've never heard of a busted string in an electric socket before.  The fastest I've ever seen a dog get housebroken is when my first beagle decided to take a pee in my sister's house and urinated on an electric socket.  The charge went right up the stream and knocked him across the room by that most sensitive of appendages.  He never peed in the house again!  He checked out fine aside from a little burn that quickly healed, so it's OK to laugh.  That has nothing to do with guitar because that dog never could get the hang of a six string. 

Anyway, I was going to recommend RICE too.  The only thing I'll add to what was said is that "elevated" means "elevated above your heart."  If you lie down on a sofa, rest that arm on the back of the sofa.  Also, cold compresses don't do much for swelling after the first day of an inflammation, but they can help with temporary pain relief.  Don't do more than twenty minutes, and don't put the ice right on your skin.  I usually put the ice in a ziplock bag (double bagged) and put a tea towel between the ice and my skin, and then tie the whole thing on loosely with a bandanna.  Not tightly, as there's no need for a tourniquet. 

Don't fight through the pain.  Swelling and pain is a clue that there's something amiss.  If you fight through it, you could well cause more permanent damage.  Take a couple day's break.  You've got a whole lifetime of playing ahead of you.  Use the time to listen to some songs and try to figure out how they do what they do. 

- Zurf

Had a few days off and my arm is fine now. Even managed to play in front of people for the first time on boxing day.

By the way, poor dog Zurf.

the only injury i ever got playing the guitar were blisters on me fingas lol i was just starting to play and practicing every free moment i could find then after about three days i noticed blisters  on every finger of my left hand and i  have big indents in my fingers that never go away from where the strings touch my fingers

I've only been playing for about a year. The only injuries I've come across have been
1) My left or right fingers tend to swell up every once in a while
2) I was in a high school gym class and the basket ball hit my finger the wrong way. I had to stop playing guitar for a couple of days because it had made my left index finger purple and it swelled up a whole bunch D;
#2's not really a guitar injury but I guess it effected my guitar playing.