Author Topic: Tennis Elbow (Read 5448 times)

Old School Trainer · « **Reply #25 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:36:01 PM »

Pretty much ended my lifting career. Best elbow doctor in Delaware was wearing a brace himself. Rest up for a long time and train light like Vince Taylor. Don't do what I did and give up and open up your own construction business with 75-hour work weeks.

SF1900 · « **Reply #26 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:37:42 PM »

Cortisone shot?

makaveli25 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:38:14 PM »

I had it. I had to lay off of it. It healed in a couple of months. I started going to the chiropractor for my neck and back and he also worked on my forearm/elbow. Try to lay off of it for awhile.

The Ugly · « **Reply #28 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:38:45 PM »

There's a rubberband exercise you can do to strengthen the tendon, but I never had the patience. Put it around your fingers, then extend them for like a thousand reps. Also, squeezing a rubber ball. Again, thousands of reps over maybe three sets.

I'm exaggerating, of course, but I just never could handle the high rep therapy. Anyway, those two therapy exercises are somewhere online if you're interested.

Sorry, bro.

The Ugly · « **Reply #29 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:41:02 PM »

Also, the tennis elbow brace thing helps quite a bit.

che · « **Reply #30 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:45:56 PM »

Quote from: chaos on June 07, 2012, 06:33:58 PM

I messed with it for months, finally took some advice and iced the shit out of it, every chance I got throughout the day, breaks, lunch, home, just before bed. Within 2-3 weeks it was completely gone.

I can't do that ,I get up at 5 am ,work outside all day, come home around 4 pm, get my kid, go to the boxing gym until 7 , I get home around 7:30 , workout ,eat , ice my elbow ,post on Getbig ,go to sleep.

Quote from: SF1900 on June 07, 2012, 06:34:38 PM

The next solution would be to have Bay come over daily and give you a massage

That would be really nice .

flipper5470 · « **Reply #31 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:46:21 PM »

Had problems with it for 30 years off and on....ice and brace and advil....

The Ugly · « **Reply #32 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:49:36 PM »

Also, heroin.

che · « **Reply #33 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:04:14 PM »

Just wanted to thank everyone for their advice (no homo)

lvtolft · « **Reply #34 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:06:40 PM »

Higher reps and lighter weight. It has worked wonders for me. I always hated trying to rest it and when I started to lighten the weights, things got better in a couple of weeks. I still feel it from time to time, but it is much better.
Even if it is only 5 pounds try it out.

mesmorph78 · « **Reply #35 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:13:26 PM »

Quote from: che on June 07, 2012, 06:09:54 PM

Right now I can't do shit , I'm just training my legs.

I had the same thing ... If you bang it against something it hurts like fuck
Chinese remedies worked in days .. Winter green oil worked for me straight away

mesmorph78 · « **Reply #36 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:16:21 PM »

The whole concept might sound kooky but it word 100% worked for my brother too

Bam-bam · « **Reply #37 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:17:41 PM »

Quote from: che on June 07, 2012, 06:45:56 PM

I can't do that ,I get up at 5 am ,work outside all day, come home around 4 pm, get my kid, go to the boxing gym until 7 , I get home around 7:30 , workout ,eat , ice my elbow ,post on Getbig ,go to sleep.
That would be really nice .

thats the first time I saw che making more than one line in a post, something is going on "haha"

The True Adonis · « **Reply #38 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:40:19 PM »

Does this mean I have great genetics because I have never had anything like this ever?

The Ugly · « **Reply #39 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:45:46 PM »

Yes, Adonis, that's exactly what it means.

tonymctones · « **Reply #40 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:54:08 PM »

I get it on and off, when I feel it start coming on I train around it until it subsides.

Honestly try training around it, I couldnt do DB lat raises but I could use a machine. I couldnt do lat pulls but I could do neutral grip rows etc.

When it starts to subside start doing some forarm and grip training. That seems to help, when I feel it start to act up ill train around it and throw in a forarm exercise or two and it usually knocks it out in a week or two.

225for70 · « **Reply #41 on:** June 07, 2012, 07:59:10 PM »

Quote from: SF1900 on June 07, 2012, 06:37:42 PM

Cortisone shot?

That's only a short term solution...I got the tendon in my right elbow shot 4 times with cortizone...The last shot did nothing..I did get relief for about 6 weeks

MB · « **Reply #42 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:27:29 PM »

I've worked around elbow tendinitis, but found that it essentially never goes away. Mine started about 10 years ago and even today if I try any underhand grip row, pulldown or straight bar curl the pain is there.

tommywishbone · « **Reply #43 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:01:00 PM »

OK, this is a real $10 remedy (that works for some, not all).

1000 mg of alfalfa 2x daily. A bottle of 90 tabs 500mg is $7.

RICE the elbow 2x daily (Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate) Get an ACE bandage, wrap your bad elbow firmly with an ice pack and make sure you rest it above your chest. It's easy. Twice daily, 20-30 minutes session.

Follow that simple routine for 10 days. When you win Wimbledon, send me a post card.

flipper5470 · « **Reply #44 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:08:25 PM »

Quote from: 225for70 on June 07, 2012, 07:59:10 PM

That's only a short term solution...I got the tendon in my right elbow shot 4 times with cortizone...The last shot did nothing..I did get relief for about 6 weeks

I went to a rolfer a few years back....without asking about them or being told, she could tell that I had cortisone shots in my shoulder 6-12 months after I'd had them. She said it made the tissue "crunchy".

SLYY · « **Reply #45 on:** June 07, 2012, 09:37:01 PM »

My doctor recommended this, so I figured I'd try it. Never had a problem since...

sync pulse · « **Reply #46 on:** June 08, 2012, 01:20:44 AM »

Curling straight bars give me this...after mine healed I switched to curling only cambered bars and it never returned.

Radical Plato · « **Reply #47 on:** June 08, 2012, 01:32:36 AM »

Rest, Heat/Ice and lay off the Wank!

galain · « **Reply #48 on:** June 08, 2012, 01:45:23 AM »

Turmeric, Frankincense and Ginger supplements for 6 months and it never came back.

Fucking horrible though - commiserations man - you really can't do anything with tennis elbow except give it time and find a treatment that will work for you.

DroppingPlates · « **Reply #49 on:** June 08, 2012, 02:05:47 AM »

That's what you get from jerking on trannies