Severe Tendonitis anyone??

[Cameron.25]

In case anyone is wondering i thought id update this. The pin firing is now all im doing for my elbow and its going great! Pain is 90% gone, going to keep doing it and start trying to build strength back up again finally

 

[Kevin_t]

Check out shock wave therapy. I had tendonitis , both elbows, and achilles and it worked for about 90 percent resolution .

 

[BackcountryBloodline]

In case anyone is wondering i thought id update this. The pin firing is now all im doing for my elbow and its going great! Pain is 90% gone, going to keep doing it and start trying to build strength back up again finally

Glad to hear the pin firing is working for you, in my experience it's like Buckley's. Feels awful...but it works!

 

[Fordguy]

From what I've read (no consult yet) I have golfer's elbow in my right arm. It's severe enough that I can't let my pickup tailgate down slowly with my right arm. It started near the end of a post and rail fence project for horses, some 300 post holes dug by hand with a set of diggers. I've been resting it as much as possible and it's slowly improving. I'm really hoping for a nonsurgical recovery...

 

[Cameron.25]

From what I've read (no consult yet) I have golfer's elbow in my right arm. It's severe enough that I can't let my pickup tailgate down slowly with my right arm. It started near the end of a post and rail fence project for horses, some 300 post holes dug by hand with a set of diggers. I've been resting it as much as possible and it's slowly improving. I'm really hoping for a nonsurgical recovery...

Try the pin firing

 

[Catchfish]

Staying tuned to this thread, I have just started looking at my elbows due to pain. Specialist has me a neurology appointment and Therapy scheduled. I figured it might be from my neck but my neck hasn’t felt this good in years. Specialist keep looking at my wrists and my carpal tunnel though.

 

[Kilboars]

Mine only flairs up when I’m working hard with my hands and grip. I’ll work out the knots in my forearm tendons myself or if it’s real bad go to physical therapist for Massage.


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[Rob960]

For me it's Osteo Arthritis in my left shoulder. Flare ups are hell. Usually a few days of Voltaren and Tylenol to tame it down.

 

[Ca_Mike]

I dealt with severe tendonitis in both elbows for years. Went through the PT route and cortisone injections for a long time until they no longer gave relief. Also did a round of PRP injections in one elbow, didn't help much. Finally had to go the surgical route as I had multiple issues contributing to the tendonitis. Had a tear in the right elbow and had subluxating ulnar nerves in both elbows. January of last year had the right elbow repaired and in March had the left elbow done. Recovery was long and quite painful. Finally at a year post surgery my right elbow is 100% as is the strength. Left elbow is mostly there, still some discomfort around the ulnar nerve. But i no longer get stabbing pains when I pick something up and it doesn't wake me up at night anymore.

 

[Cameron.25]

I dealt with severe tendonitis in both elbows for years. Went through the PT route and cortisone injections for a long time until they no longer gave relief. Also did a round of PRP injections in one elbow, didn't help much. Finally had to go the surgical route as I had multiple issues contributing to the tendonitis. Had a tear in the right elbow and had subluxating ulnar nerves in both elbows. January of last year had the right elbow repaired and in March had the left elbow done. Recovery was long and quite painful. Finally at a year post surgery my right elbow is 100% as is the strength. Left elbow is mostly there, still some discomfort around the ulnar nerve. But i no longer get stabbing pains when I pick something up and it doesn't wake me up at night anymore.

Yikes! Gonna do my best to avoid that outcome at all costs lol sounds terrible

 

[fwafwow]

I dealt with bad elbow tendonitis all through first half of the year. Pain seemed to move all around the elbow, changing almost daily. I couldn't lift anything without bad pain. Tried treating it myself (rest, stretching, gentle massage, ice, etc.) and nothing worked. I got desperate enough to go to a chiropractor thinking maybe something was out of place and the fix might relieve the elbow enough to let it heal.

He assessed it and decided to do some Graston (scraping) on the area. It wasn't the best feeling in the world but it provided immediate relief. His guess was about 3 more treatments and the issue would be resolved.
The scraping mixed with at home forearm stretches and a couple of acupuncture treatments of the elbow and I have been pain free for months.

I agree with the comments above, the issue is poor blood flow to the elbow area. The scraping and acupuncture really freed up the surrounding tissue and stimulated blood flow to the area. I would highly recommend taking this route for anyone having elbow issues! The elbow pain is debilitating but surgery should be a last resort, in my uneducated opinion...

Resurrecting this thread. I had tennis elbow in my left elbow, but I don’t play tennis or otherwise do anything repetitive with that arm. I also had the pain moving around in the top and bottom of my forearm, and hand. And it was always worse when sleeping.

I’ve been going to PT and getting needling with Tens (ouch), but it’s been still prevalent for six weeks. Then started in my right forearm, so I think it’s related to dumbbell weight training - maybe gripping too hard?

Anyway, before today I had not heard of Graston and I’m hoping it will provide some relief.

 

[Cameron.25]

Resurrecting this thread. I had tennis elbow in my left elbow, but I don’t play tennis or otherwise do anything repetitive with that arm. I also had the pain moving around in the top and bottom of my forearm, and hand. And it was always worse when sleeping.

I’ve been going to PT and getting needling with Tens (ouch), but it’s been still prevalent for six weeks. Then started in my right forearm, so I think it’s related to dumbbell weight training - maybe gripping too hard?

Anyway, before today I had not heard of Graston and I’m hoping it will provide some relief.

It could definitely be from that. I got it from doing way too many pullups daily for months on end a few years ago

 

[dirtshooter]

Skipped to the end to say look up Starting Strength Tendinitis Mark Ripetoe. His method worked for me

 

[Poser]

Since this thread came back up, I'll add that my left meniscus fell part 10 months and xrays and MRIs later revealed cartilage degeneration in that same knee. I was basically told to modify activities and come back when it hurts bad enough to justify a knee replacement.

Similar to the pin firing/chin up protocol discussed extensively in this thread, I squatted my way through recovery starting with an empty barbell as soon as I could get again get the range of motion with bodyweight and took 10 lbs jumps 3x a week back up to the mid 200s before dropping to 5 lbs. There were some difficult, slightly painful and ugly (squatting a bit off camber due to the injured knee) sessions in there by the dstress, recovery, adaptation cycle played out the same for the knee as it did for the elbows and the knee eventually stabilized (it had a lot of play and instability) and it back to what I would describe as 85-90%.

Since then, I have been consistently taking a combination of:

fish oil
tumeric
boswellia extract
glucosamine/msm/chondroitin
magnesium glycinate

specifically to help with the knee in addition to the vitamin D, boron, zinc and some other supplements I was already taking. Whatever residual elbow inflammation or occasional flare up I was experiencing since doing the pin firing/chip protocol a few years ago has completely dissipated.

I can't say with any certainty that every part of that combination contributes to joint recovery, but it works well enough that I'm not interested in removing any of those supplements to find out what's contributing and what's not. I'm going to stay on that supplement combination until it becomes apparent that there is some reason not eliminate some of all of them. You will consistently find those listed supplements as being the top recommended supplements along with Vitamin D for joint inflammation/arthritis etc.

 

[Cameron.25]

Skipped to the end to say look up Starting Strength Tendinitis Mark Ripetoe. His method worked for me

This is legit. Ironically i got my injury from doing too many pullups for months on end and this method actually made it better and it finally went away, after months of PT trying to heal it other ways

 

[fwafwow]

Thanks everyone. I will dig further, into this thread and the recommendations. PT wasn’t doing it for me, and after putting off strength training for so long, I don’t want to give it up.

 

[dirtshooter]

This is legit. Ironically i got my injury from doing too many pullups for months on end and this method actually made it better and it finally went away, after months of PT trying to heal it other ways

Yup, I was skeptical until I needed it and it sucked and hurt but it worked. Tendonitis use it and lose it.

 

[fwafwow]

I use one of these straps, it helps. Really great when I have to use my elbow while working, otherwise I wouldn't be able to do some things. I also wear it at night, as I was getting sick of waking up with an outstretched arm, and it being so stiff and sore I had to use my other arm to slowly bring it back to my body in pain. I try not to wear it all the time as I have read that it would be detrimental to healing in the long term.

Thank you for this - I was beginning to wonder what I was doing during the night that was causing my added pain.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

This is legit. Ironically i got my injury from doing too many pullups for months on end and this method actually made it better and it finally went away, after months of PT trying to heal it other ways

Crazy stuff, I’ve been doing that for years because my elbows would ache from doing too many pull/chin ups. I didn’t t know there was any science behind it.

 

[TheGDog]

Thanks everyone. I will dig further, into this thread and the recommendations. PT wasn’t doing it for me, and after putting off strength training for so long, I don’t want to give it up.

What do you do for a job? I'm asking because if at a desk, where you're resting your elbows can DEFINITELY give you BAD tennis elbow if you don't address it. Like if the arms on an office chair are such that, before adjusting them around YOU.. you might be placing your elbow like on an edge of an arm rest on your chair, soit's pushing into that groove the tendon rides into, without you even realizing you're doing it at first.

I apologize I hadn't scrolled more upward to read what you believe might be causing your initial complaint. I just know from being a coder it's real important to get the ergonomics pretty decent if you have to do the desk thing.

And if it's because you're "training like a beast" right now? Then it just means you're over-training, or perhaps more properly, you're not properly giving your body time time it needs, rest, and food it needs, to re-fix itself over and over.

If ya start scrimping on any of the 3, but still continue to push past your limits.. you're gonna start doing damage, bottom-line. Also bottom-line? At some point, the same amount of output you can generate all along, will start to cause you to rip and tear things at some point. Probably around 45yo-ish. Unless you're using gear, you're just not going to be able to hit things like you once did and not expect stuff to rip/tear more as you age.