[CobaltFire]

I'm dealing with RSI issues as well, and am in my late 30's. Hard career left me with a lot of small (and a couple larger) injuries.

The only thing I've found to help is stopping the actions that are unnecessary to reduce load, and training to build the tendons and ligaments. This can be difficult and has required I change how I work. It has, however, paid dividends.

I have a torn ligament in my shoulder that I'm about 18 months into rehabbing to try and avoid surgery, and I have a spinal injury that causes me major issues. I've managed to work through both but my progress is ridiculously slow and my max effort ceiling low compared to many. However I've hit points that I was told I'd never be able to do via the long and slow route.

There's nothing easy about it, and nutrition was a big part of it as well. I had to change hobbies, too, as those were using up some of the load I could use to train. Later on I was able to take them back up as I built up strength and recovered those injuries, but never to the point where I was.

[klondike_klive]

If you don't mind me asking, how do you train to build tendons and ligaments? And do you stretch too? Mind sharing any useful resources?

[CobaltFire]

Apologies for the late reply; I don't have any notifications here.

It's really just the long hard road of low level, slowly increasing loads via exercise. There's no magic, just hard work. Talk to any PT and they'll tell you the same thing.