I have tennis elbow - or something that fits the description anyway
I know what TE is, I (contrary to appearances sometimes 😳 ) know how to use google
I don't know what I did to develop it but I know that 2 things seem to aggravate it - riding a bike and lifting a beer. Don't do much other sport so I'm doubtful that biking is *that* bad for it, more just coincidental I hope, but was just wondering:
Has anyone had it & done anything relating to the bike (bar ends, weirdo bars, very soft forks, no "honking", moving brake levers,..) that made a difference ?
Have had similar problems I think caused by years of rock climbing, nothing on bike would help, but [url= http://www.physioroom.com/injuries/arm_and_elbow/tennis_elbow_rehab_1.php ]THIS[/url] certainly did, fantastic advice.
Thanks Bream - which product did you mean?, seem to be lots on that page
(please, not the robocop brace)
I didn't buy anything, just followed the 3 phase rehabilitation guide, worked a treat and even better it's free 8)
aaah - and do you have anything that would allow me to read people's posts properly ?
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My wife suffers from it because of her needlework stuff. She went to a good osteopath who reccommended a brace. It costs ~ £20 ish and is a 'c' shaped padded brace. You put it around the muscle below your elbow and tighten the velcro strap. It holds the tendons and supports the forearm muscle. Now if she gets a twinge, it goes on straight away.
Anothe friend popped in last week, suffering from the same thing and had just had a ( painful ) cortisone injection for the same thing. After shown the brace she went out and got one immediately and is impressed with it.
best of luck
Q
just looked at the link - her brace is like the pneumatic one except it isn't a blow-up job.....if I can say that without raising a titter!!!!
....and it really does work. Without it she's in excruciating pain.
cheers
Q
yeh, that's part of my problem really - I'm NOT in excruciating pain so I just carry on doing what I do & put up with it without altering any behaviour (but then I may have already M'dTFU LOLZ 11!!)
tried gaffer tape round jut below the elbow when I was on holiday & doing quite a lot of biking. wrapped it too tight though & got a blue arm 😯
Its a nasty affliction - successfully stopped me taking up golf though (it started when I started going to the driving range), so its not all bad 😆
I have one of those braces also and use to wear it when I climbed but I found it to unconfortable to wear all day, it started to cause more restriction pain than the actual tennis elbow 🙁
Only after a couple of years with the brace I had a particular bad session of pain coming back from Morzine last year that I found the above rehabilitation guide. I went through it start to finish and it worked 100%, but you have to keep it up. So far I have found no magic brace or tablet to buy to get rid of it, just this rehabilitation.
I suffered through climbing a few years ago.
Get two Golf balls, hold in one hand and rotate around each other. I did it all the time, whilst working the computer at work etc until the problem resolved itself, then every now and then to maintain tendon strength and flexibility.
Worked a treat!
C brace, cortisone and stopping playing tennis sorted me. Not had a problem biking
Physio showed me how to do some serious massage - basically at the points the muscles attach - the points where it is most painful when you dig your fingers in. Massaging accross the muscle fibres to free them up. Worked a treat!
go see a doctor