Tennis elbow

[Graham]

Boss is sending me to good physio soon (thanks T, if your reading).Hopefully be back in the saddle in a few weeks...it is starting to heal and get less sore.

 

Ease yourself back into work slowly mate. It takes so long to get it right you don't want to *!!* it all up!

 

Mine hasn't flared up for a year now.

[Theocus]

I have just got the first signs of this, now being smart and pulling my self out of work and letting the boys take the strain. Never realised it was so sore!

[cerneARB]

been back a week and a half now..elbow not too bad, were in a 3 man team now with a boy..who takes the strain of me a bit.cant belive how knackered i am after no hard graft for near on 4 months...glad its the weekend.

[spencer]

Hope nobody minds but i've been working in the fitness industry for more years than i care to remember and i've come across this problem quite a bit - just thought i'd pass on the link to these:

 

Handmaster Plus : Handmaster : Fitness equipment, treadmills, rowing machines

 

I'd go for the set of three but ONLY when your physio etc has said its ok - like i said no expert but have seen this injury a lot from all manner of people and these are the simplest (although not cheapest) way to move forward that i've found.

 

Hope that helps and if i can help anymore just drop me a line

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So this tennis/golfers elbow is a very common theme amoung us all, it hurts like hell and your arm can just fail while under loads at times.

 

this one needs a lot more talking to establish EXACTLY whats causing the worst of it, changing to gloves started mine off, after working 20 years without them my muscles and grip was well developed, then gloves was the change.

 

Now if i cut and chuck too much it flares up, too much prussicking up same as. I knew all my career my time woulkd be up by 40, this is despite what some hope to believe, a young mans game.

 

25 years is long enough in the saddle if you ask me, I wanna quit while im still able to choose to do the odd climb when i am uop for it, rather than destroy my body and be grounded by force rather than choice.

 

take it easy up thier guys, i know we all feel and no doubt are fit as fleas and all that, but your health, well thats surely priceless?

[Darren187]

I had bad tennis elbow in my left arm. I had my good and bad days with it over a period of two years. At its worst I was unable to use my arm to lift anything over 2kg, this often lasted days at a time. What was also annoying was it could happen at any time too, but mainly when I moved very heavy items.

 

Long story short. I then broke my left arm and was unable to use it for 11 weeks. I had a wrist cast, and sling which I only took off to sleep. I didn't use my arm at all in that time. When the cast and sling came off my tennis elbow symptoms had completely gone, and apart from a loss of 5 degrees range of motion in my left elbow (from the fracture) I have not suffered since!

[fen01]

I also have had tennis elbow for about a year and it has just had a rest after my hernia op. First day in the gym and it's back so I went see my pyhsio and she had started using acupuncture needles on the trigger points - hurts like hell but she thinks 3 or 4 treatments should sort it. If it works I will let you know the medical term for the treatment so you try and and get some.

 

Mark

[jacjak]

used to suffer really bad with it, started strapping it up and it slowly started to hurt less. Still strap it up for work and most days are pain free, but soon plays up if i forget to. Didnt actually stop working though, so sounds like i got off lightly compared to some of you. do have problems with the hand as well but never made the connection until i read the thread, naproxen seems to help with that.

[Mark Bolam]

Some good threads on this already using the Search tab lads.

 

Good luck with it. Mines OK, but I treat it carefully now. One-handing the O2O is the devil's work!

[Les Cork]

Iv'e had Tennis elbow for nearly a year now, seen a few specialists and have just finished a course of acupuncture which really helped.

I have movement and grip back [which i had lost altogether] but still have the dull ache and pain if i try to lift a weight.

 

Apart from the physical injury it is a bitter pill to swallow that you have suddenly lost the dynamics and strength in your arm and despite all you find everyday things hurt when you used to have hands like spanners.

 

There are many variations of lateral epicondilitus and when you are wearing a strap you will be amazed just how many people stop you to say i have/had/get the same.

 

As a sports physio who lives near me and who i trust from experience said, we take it for granted that our muscles and tendons are ready for work, when we really should develop individual warm up and loosen up exercise regimes to prepare.

The old saying "fail to prepare then prepare to fail"

Listen to your body, when the pain or heat or twinge starts to nag in your forearm STOP and take action. Can you hold your arm out with hand flat and vertical and move your index finger inwards without a pull in your forearm it is just one of the tests of tendon tear.