Tennis Elbow/Golfers Elbow

[Varven]

is this a special band or just the normal one as mentioned above ?

[markm]

I resigned myself to the thought of having to have an intra-joint jab . . .

Oros, did you ever get the jab??

I have golfers elbow, which I've got reasonably well under control now, but have to be really careful especially with pulling exercises like lat pulldowns, chinups etc, but at the time when it was horrendously bad, I went to my doc to get a steroid injection, but she wouldn't give me one.

Said that masking the pain and not resolving the initial cause was not the way to go, and basically just gave me a sheet of wrist strengthening exercises to do.

Got a point I 'spose.

[Oros]

Hell, s..t no!

Fortunately my doc is not pro-cortisone, especially into the joint, unless it's the last resort, ....or requested!!!............who the heck would actually request having a needle shoved into a joint!!!

I had just resigned myself to a worst case scenario/situation (it's what I do best :boohoo: )

[dynamo]

I've recently been diagnosed with "golf elbows" and told to use elbow support. One chemist sold me a Thermastrap elbow wrap "support" which while it kept things warm, didn't really do much for me in terms of support. Another pharmacy sold me Futuro elbow supports which support the elbows at the upper forearm as discussed earlier in this thread. These seem to work okay.

This is what my GP (sports specialist) apparently had in mind. He also recommended Zostrix cream which is an analgesic cream (and aids healing seemingly) which you apply every 4 hours. There are two octanes; I'm using the stronger one - it's early days. I'm told (after I bought it :-)) it's recently been added to the free list.

Another sufferer I met in the gym pointed me at Percutane which is applied every 24 hours and has given him good results; I started with it yesterday.

There is a lot of info about condilitis and soft tissue problems online. I downloaded a free sports injury manual etc from http://www.thestretchinghandbook.com/

I suspect all this means 3 months of abs, legs and aerobics - no arms and probably off to the physio. Oh well, ever onward.

[Oros]

Ended up going to physio myself, been for 4 treatments so far. There was not much change during or after the first 3 visits, so I asked if there were any possible, more aggresive ways of treatment.

The option that was put to me was "multiple trigger point needle insertions". The brief description given as using the same guage needles as accupuncture to create a "new" intra muscular/tendon wound in the already damaged muscle/tendon, which causes an increase in white blood cell activity in the general area which assists in healing both "wounds/damage", or some such reasoning.

Me, being pretty much completely pissed off with the lack of healing progress, limited training ability for most back & bicep exercises, some shoulder & tricep exercises,........and her being, well, very much.... =P~ :twisted:, I decided, what the hell, lets give it a try!

Everything was fine up till the third needle insertion which was :shock: :shock: . After treatment everything felt great, far, far better than my elbow/fore-arm has felt for quit some time.

That was Monday night, next treatment is this evening, last treatment will be Friday night, .....rest over the weekend,...... try some light back & biceps on Monday to test the water so to say,....... verdict in on Wednesday morning after Tuesday evening shoulders & triceps!

[Varven]

Hmm thats quite a few of us with this problem.

Advise given to me by another powerlifter movinig some really HUGE numebrs with this problem:

Use heat and ice packs.

Keep the joints warm.

Use a physio.

When lifting, wrap the fu#$er as tightly as possible and just lift anyway.

Something tells me the last part is just avoiding the problem temporarily LOL.

[Oros]

Managed a few sets of reverse tri ext'ns last night,....holding the contraction for 2 count,....elbow seems to be improving, but shhhhhhh,....would'nt want to jinx it just yet!!!

[Varven]

A tip passed onto me by another pl'er:

perform db hammer curls 3 times a week... about 2 sets in the 20 rep range.

Make sure the weight is light, the primary idea is to increase blood flow in the regions and help build the tendon strenght back up.