Any one here with elbow tendinitis? Mine has been killing me during my lifting.I picked up a couple of the “tennis elbow” straps that go around the forearm just below the elbow,but they get in the way and have to be adjusted after i get my arm pump going.
I saw a one piece brace that goes from the lower bicep down to the upper forearm,and am wondering if it gives adequate support to the tendons? Or is there a better alternative out there? Thanks
I am curious about this as well, as I suffer from tendonitis in my elbows, especially the right. I can do pressing movements without any pain, but I can’t do anything that will isolate the triceps like skullcrushers or french presses, and that sucks.
I got some tendonitis a little in my right elbow from doing some very deep dips at one time. to help with it I just widen my grip a little on all pressing movements and try not to break 90 degrees in the elbows. Theres no pain there, and im still pretty strong with the changed grip.
Try to work your grip extensors first push out against a rubber bands helps many ppl. Up your fish oils etc. and healthy fats. Might read an old article by TC about using eccentrics to cure tendinitis and build tendon strength.
Limit any JERKING and hard impacts
Phill
mine declined by about 90% after I began the following . took about 6 weeks …
1)apply Heet prior to lifting session . let the area get good and warm , then LIGHTLY wrap it…just to keep it all warm .
2)ice it immediately after session , or any other heavy use . numb it up good
3)Heet and a light wrap during sleep.careful not to get the Heet on your pillow .
4)Glocosamine/Chondroiton
Thanks, I think I originally injured myself doing narrow grip presses and skull crushers. I’ve been taking it easy on the triceps movements, but I tried to do some skull crushers today after my heavy chest work.
Sure enough it started to hurt about three reps in, and I was going with a pretty light weight. I decided better safe than sorry and only did six reps. I guess I’ll wait a few more weeks before I try any more. I suppose pressing movements hit the tris well enough, I certainly don’t wanna injure it further.
The answer is Active Release Techniques (ART). It took about three sessions to totally alleviate my bilateral tennis elbow.
I had something smiliar, dips with any weight hurt like hell-mind you I was dipping a lot at that time with some fairly heavy (for me) weights, anything below 3 reps on the bench was no go as was any kind of extension. I found dumbell pressing with a neutral grip has helped me quite a lot.
[quote]Mr.Clark wrote:
The answer is Active Release Techniques (ART). It took about three sessions to totally alleviate my bilateral tennis elbow.[/quote]
I’d love to hear more about this A.R.T. where can I learn more?
I had some in my right elbow, I think mostly from playing drums, and it was usually aggravated by any jerking motion or rappid changes of direction at the joint. Once I laid off those motions and did all my tricept stuff really slow and light, it went away.
Last year I developed tennis elbow. At first I continued training, but it started to get real sore, I went to the doctor about it and he basically told me to rest (very unhappy at the time. It got to the point were it hurt to shake someones hand, so in the end I took close to four months of training and let it heal. It hurt to a degree when I started training again, but I worked back in slowely and it has been pretty good ever since. I am training pretty hard at the moment and it does get a little sore, but rubbing the forearm with some voltarin gell seems to help.
Rest is the answere.
Active Release is definitely the way to go. Scar tissue has built up in the tendon complex causing greater tension on the tendons in the elbow and wrist. Aside from several articles here, I believe the website is healthy shoulders.com.
Kinda spendy but virtually instantaneous results and non-invasive
[quote]raybbaby wrote:
Mr.Clark wrote:
The answer is Active Release Techniques (ART). It took about three sessions to totally alleviate my bilateral tennis elbow.
I’d love to hear more about this A.R.T. where can I learn more?[/quote]
Used to have it. I just stopped doing any direct tricep work for about 6 weeks, when re-started direct work, only did pushdowns with all kinds of bars and grips, now when I do extensions is only for 3 week cycles.
I developed tendinitis in both elbows from doing power cleans (probably bad form). At first I just tried to train around it, but without success, plus it spread to my rowing, tricep and pull-ups (bummer). About the only thing that did not aggravate it was pressing.
I tried rest, heat, ice, Advil, fish oil and straps, I came back slowly and so did the pain. I got prescription anti-inflammatory and rest. Came back slowly and so did the pain. I got cortisone shots and came back slowly and so did the pain. This has been going on for about 10 months.
I started ART (they are on-site at my local Gold’s Gym) and I have been coming back slowly, but the difference is the pain has not. Knock wood, it will hold out.
Erinfan’s post is spot-on. You need to treat the scar tissue and shortening of the muscles that connect to the tendons to get the pain to stop and not come back.
I Second ART, really lives up to the hype, had elbow problem for 5 years, tried various physios- didn’t help much. After second session it was 80% better.
I also find dumbells are a lot easier on the joints, and warm down the arms and stretch big time after training.
the book Pain Erasure by Bonnie Prudden is also a very good guide to diy ART/ trigger point therapy and a fraction of the price of treatment though not quite as effective.
High rep band pushdowns in addition to everything said above.
Deloading when needed is also pretty important.