Tennis Elbow?

[grfox92]

Anyone ever suffered with this? It's my second time with it. The first time it persisted for a few months of being half crippled. This time it seems to be improving a little quicker but still sucks.

Anyone have any tips or tricks to healing faster?

Resting it is the obvious answer, but I don't have that option unfortunately.

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[Legend]

I think it needs a new name. Tennis elbow sounds so cute. The name needs to better represent the "hurts like hell and won't go away!"

Those arm bands that but pressure on the tendon connection point do help. Also if you sleep with your arm bent it can heal at that length. If you sleep with your arm straight the tendon heals short an every morning you tear it again. At least that is my simple brain explanation.

I am thinking "Hammer elbow"???

 

[bridgerbenson]

Only after drinking too much and arm wrestling way too many times. There’s pretty good stuff on YouTube on how to treat it and get it healed up quicker.


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[feanor]

I had it years ago and just massaged it a ton. Plus heat.

 

[Hornsrok]

x2 on the armbands. Wear it 24/7 if possible and it will go away over time.

 

[mthayr]

Two words: "Corticosteroid Injection"

 

[Loper]

I just went through this, and like you it was the second time I’ve had it. The first time I had tennis elbow was probably over a decade ago.

This second time I got it I think it was a result of working out, bad posture and excessive strain while at work typing. However, it really got aggravated fishing and trying to teach myself how to fly fish with a stiff 7 wt. rod.

For a while I thought just rest would fix it so I stopped fishing and working out (which killed me) but after a few months that didn’t cure it.

I don’t have time to go to a physical therapist and while at a work conference I heard of a benefit we have with a company called Sword for rehab. I tried it out and it was very beneficial.

Sword sent me a tablet with preloaded exercises and sensors to monitor my range of motion. I also downloaded the app on my phone which gave me access to a physical therapist that I met with a few times a month.

I’d do the exercises, which lasted about 15 minutes, complete the survey after each session and rated how difficult it was and how much pain I had. Once submitted the PT would adjust my exercises up or down depending on what I needed.

After doing this program for about 2 months I helped me enough where I could get back in the gym and go fishing again. I wrapped up in December and I would t say I’m not 100%, but I’m probably 95%.

The best part about is that it was free through my company’s insurance and I didn’t have to take and hour and half out of my day a few days a week to drive to PT do the exercises and drive home.

 

[SonnyDay]

PRP

Platelet Rich Plasma injection.

They take some of your blood, spin it in a centrifuge, and then inject the platelets (along with various growth factors and other good stuff your own body made) back into the tendon.

It hurt like hell for a few days... but in a week it was like the tennis elbow had never happened.

The idea is to take a chronic injury (tennis elbow) and mimic an acute injury... which tricks your body into doing all the things it normally does to heal.

By far the most amazing and successful medical procedure I have ever had.

Good luck!

 

[SDHNTR]

Had bouts of tennis elbow, and golfers elbow. It just plain sucks. Right now got it bad on the inside of my right arm (golfers) from coaching softball and hitting defense. I’ve tried it all. Ice and Ibu work. Cortisone works better. The bands help a little, but eventually, the only thing that works is time!

 

[mgray]

Only after drinking too much and arm wrestling way too many times. There’s pretty good stuff on YouTube on how to treat it and get it healed up quicker.


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I came here to say this exact same thing. It always seems like a good idea until you can’t straighten your arm out the next day,

 

[northernmadman]

make sure it is just a strain and not a tear. they diagnosed me with this and after a few months of rehab was still feeling like hell so went back to the doctor. they said imaging needed to be done but with the crappy medical we have in Canada it was almost 7 months later before the imaging showed a partial tear in the tendon and muscle, so rehab changed and after another couple months it is finally starting to feel better. sucks getting old, but better than the alternative.
the strap around the arm works but rest is the best thing although hard to do. the platelet injection sounds interesting, and I will need to look into that.

 

[Customweld]

I used PT and they gave me a few exercises to help. One was a finger grip strengthener. I had one sitting around from learning how to play guitar. I'd do that for 30 seconds every night. The other was a solid dense foam rod that you grip and twist each hand in opposite directions. My wife would use a muscle scraper on my forearm every other night and that seemed to help out a lot. I went salmon fishing in Sitka during the middle of mine and damn near pissed my pants every time I had a fish on.

 

[AZ8]

Just went through this. Couldn’t even pick up a cup of coffee!! Took me 6 months to finally feel good. Nothing was helping and after a lot of research, this arm band actually healed me up.

I now wear it everyday at work for support even though the soreness is gone. Elbow feels great again!

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[bwidrick]

Went thru my second bout with it last year. The arm bands help with the pain but didn't seem to heal it for me. Went to sports med doc, who gave me nitroglycerin patches to put on it along with PT. Did my own PT from YouTube learnings...mostly rub & scrape the crap out of it regularly to increase blood flow to it. After a out 6 - 7 months, all good. Zero pain any more.

 

[Elk97]

Have had this a couple of times. What works for me (taught be a PT) is to locate the exact spot where it hurts the most (might be more than one) and then with the fingers of your other hand dig your fingers into that area and move them back and forth across the tendon/ligament. Really put some pressure on it, you need to break the strands that have grown back together crooked so they get aligned again. Do it for 5 minutes or so several times per day. Still going to take awhile to completely heal.

 

[Fatcamp]

Heat/cold therapy. Ibuprofen 600mg x3. Massage. Stretching.

But rest is #1.

 

[Ohiohuntr]

We have a free PT at work, got mine dry needled and did a lot of stretching then resistance training, it’s really helped alot

 

[roosterdown]

Two words: "Corticosteroid Injection"

Yep.

Get the jab.

 

[Skerhunter]

I deal with this or some other type of tendinitis in my arms every year. Avoiding activities that make it worse is the hardest part. Do some basic rehab and it typically slowly goes away in a few months.

We have a pmef machine now that makes rehab much quicker/easier.

 

[manitou1]

PRP

Platelet Rich Plasma injection.

They take some of your blood, spin it in a centrifuge, and then inject the platelets (along with various growth factors and other good stuff your own body made) back into the tendon.

It hurt like hell for a few days... but in a week it was like the tennis elbow had never happened.

The idea is to take a chronic injury (tennis elbow) and mimic an acute injury... which tricks your body into doing all the things it normally does to heal.

By far the most amazing and successful medical procedure I have ever had.

Good luck!

Made mine worse. Been fighting this for about two years now.