I’ve been dealing with pretty severe tennis elbow for several months. I’ve done ice therapy, heat therapy, voodoo floss, BPC 157, gua sha, theraband flex bar, total rest, and pretty much anything else you could think of with no benefit. Until about 2 weeks ago…
I started seeing a chiropractor at an Airrosti clinic. It’s a national therapy/chiro clinic. I’ve had two visits with him doing some sort of elbow adjustment hitting pressure points and “resetting” the tendons. About the same time, I also increased the BPC 157 from 250mcg per day to 500 per day, and now 750mcg per day.
I’m at about 80% recovered now and I think I’ll be fully recovered in the next 1-2 weeks. I’m back to doing upper body and have been able to bench, shoulder press, and even do bicep curls with no pain.
I added an elbow sleeve when lifting and I’m still using the theraband flexor twice a day and icing it 1-2x per day. I don’t know if it was the cumulative effect of everything kicking in, the increase in the BPC 157 or the chiro adjustment but something is working and I’m confident in a complete recovery.
I searched this forum incessantly for posts about tennis elbow and treatment and wanted to leave this for the next poor bastard that gets this.
Now the search is on as to how to avoid ever getting this again because it sucks.
Almost everyone will recover from tennis elbow within 12 months, without intervention. You’re probably just in line with normal recovery timeframes for the condition
My biggest recommendation to prevent it is to purchase a wrist roller, and use it to train wrist extension 2x per week, then progress to daily as able
Well, I wasn’t sitting around for 12 months waiting for it to go away. I was at the point where I was struggling to pick up a glass two weeks ago and now I’m doing curls. The purpose of the post was to help anyone looking to resolve the issue rather than a “wait it out” program. Maybe I’m a miracle, maybe not. I just hope the post helps someone else searching for something to help speed recovery.
using a wrist roller and training the extensors ( rolling up) has been a godsend for me, anytime i feel it coming back I use the wrist roller and train the extensors every second day. IMOP it is the imbalance between the contractors (overused) and the extensors that causes tennis elbow.
I use a TENS unit when I feel it coming back. Usually, it comes back when I stop doing this (I forget it in long stretches) LoL.
Mainly because I rely on the TENS unit takes to take it away over night. I literally leave it on overnight. I shouldn’t rely on the TENS unit and just keep up the FlexBar.
