Tennis Elbow

[verdifish]

Any one else suffer suffered with this ? Any tips hints for a quick recovery other than "don't use that arm " as my GP Said !

[Mark Bolam]

Try Search option mate, quite a few threads on this.

I'd get to a decent physio as soon as possible.

It's fixable, but you need to change a few things to stop reoccurrence.

 

 

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[castanea]

Deep tissue manipulation/massage from the Physio. Cost me £40 and was given a bunch of stretches to help, its possible to do the massage yourself once you've felt it done properly.

 

Its painful when done properly, and tender for a few days after but within a fortnight I was back to drinking milk straight from the big carton in the fridge. :-)

[welwell]

Mate, there's so many threads on this on the site, it's clearly a danger of the job. I had it for 18mths on and off and couldn't shake it, got to the point where I couldn't pick up a cup of coffee!

Things I did;

 

Got a support strap - amazon - slight amount of pain relief, enabled me to work alongside lots of ibuprofen

 

Had steroid injection - immediate and fairly long lasting relief

 

Had acupuncture - 4 sessions - I believe this is what cured me.

 

I would say from my experience, the steroid gave me relief for a long enough period to change my climbing style, went from VT style knots & 13mm to spider jack & thinner rope 11.7

 

So my thoughts are, the change of climbing style and acupuncture is what did it for me, this was 3 years ago and it's never come back.

 

You really have to address it, because in this trade you simply cannot give it time to self-regulate

 

Best of luck.

[treeman_gee]

Yeah as mentioned above, climbing style is the big thing to change. Support,pressure strap reduces the pain a bit but I found it then ached like mad after removing. Steroid injection gave me 6 weeks of pain free climbing but then it came back. Had another injection and it only lasted 2 weeks! In the end I had an operation on it which sorted it for good, although the recovery time from the op was around 8 weeks!!

[Stubby]

Try Search option mate, quite a few threads on this.

I'd get to a decent physio as soon as possible.

It's fixable, but you need to change a few things to stop reoccurrence.

 

 

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Change hands at 50 insted of 100

[jase8519]

acupuncture , had this for well over a year two sessions of acupuncture from a retired doctor I did some work for and after about 2 weeks it settled down. I now have golfers elbow ..... and am hoping to do some more work for him !

[timberbear]

I thought I had tennis elbow for the last two years so went to the GP who basically said yes it's the work you do, take these drugs and go away! I paid £300 for a MRI scan because I was genuinely concerned, I've worked for 23yrs and never lost a day to sickness. The results were devastating, 90% loss of cartilage, osteophytes, degenerative hyaline and subchondral sclerosis. I have small ossified intra-articular fragments floating around in the joints which is why I can't straighten my arm which makes climbing difficult! Get it checked out properly. I've now been referred to a specialist on the NHS.

[verdifish]

Timberbear mate if you were a horse id be getting the humane killer ready ! I'm a farrier by trade so I've changed 2 hammer shafts today,1 is now thicker 1 thinner and ill see which works ! I'm also booked in on Monday for some acupuncture so fingers crossed ( if it didn't hurt so much) !

[john p]

Get an Ms 150 as well, much kinder n the elbows