Oh my God, I’m 56 years old and I thought I was the only one with this problem although my playing isn’t being handled all that much with arthritis as it is with pains in my wrist from Carpal Tunnel or at least what I believe may be carpel tunnel, the problem is I don’t have health insurance so I really can’t afford to get the surgery to correct, I just play through the pain but I am finding it hard forming open “C” chords myself, and here to think I was alone with this problem