tennis elbow treatment - honest product endorsement

[Chef of the Sea]

I'm 35 but I butcher a lot of animals. When I first started skinning hogs, tennis elbow ruined me. I couldn't even grab a sautée pan without pain. I took the jokes because it does sound measly, but it was far from a laughing matter. I used a copperwear bracelet, pretty sure I got it at bed bath and beyond for about two months. I also did a exercise where you turn your arm upside down(Palms up) and grab your fingertips from underneath with your other hand for fifteen seconds.It hurt but it was a good kinda pain. Hope it gets better because that Shiite isn't fun

[Ham]

Hey Chef,

Those stretches are a good first step, but the Flex Bar thingy has been a lot better. I still do the stretches as well. I've gotten most of my grip strength back in my left hand and the overall pain is mostly gone. Mine had gotten pretty bad and I had suffered for months. I was really trying to avoid injections, but I was starting to give up hope. I really do appreciate this thread encouraging me to buy this product.

[Chef of the Sea]

wish I would've seen this thread last year!

[Old plug]

Just be careful with you Dr choice. i just went thru over 3 yrs of loosing a lot of sleep and limiting my fishing to 2 hrs a day and having to  stop as early as August with a lot of shoulder and arm pain. Wife said I groaned a lot in my sleep. Well I was told I had this that ant other thing wrong with the shoulder as well as arthritis and rotary cuff issues etc. Never had any rehab. I went MISSOU about a month ago and was treated by a doctor professor up there that teaches only shoulders and elbows. Seems there was no big deal and no arthritis. He gave me a presciption for a rehab program. The third day of rehab I got a full nights sleep ad have ever since. I begin my 4th Monday. I am really really happy with my condition. I been going through this stuff all this time. The reason being no proper treatment.  It is most likely a small rotory tear that I keep doing over and over. I hope I can get it healed and the strength built up to keep it that way. I intend to do my exercises regularly the rest on my life to maintain what I gsined. It gets away from you real quick when your almost 77. 

[hung on a rock]

I am 49 and have suffered with tennis elbow for 4 years now. My first coarse of treatment was a shot,worked almost a full year. Next year shot didn't even phase it moved to shoulder then wrist. More shots, minimal results. Started physical therapy, electric stimulation and exercises, 6 weeks minimal results. My physical therapist finally went fishing with me, saw how I working my arm,Jerkbaits and flipping  always made it hurt worst, he believes that the motions for fishing are a little different than that for tennis or other activities generally connected with tennis elbow. He had me get a wrist brace with a splint on the bottom up into the palm. Within a hour or so ,after hurting for several months,  my elbow was feeling noticeably better. He said it keeps me from stretching the tendon. Now if I even feel a twinge I put it on and consider it to be a miracle. 

 

 

[hoglaw]

The common thread here, in my humble opinion, is that biomechanics and exercise are often overlooked in favor of drugs and shots. 

 

I have a bad low back issue from football, rugby, and lifting as an older man with high school form. I have learned the hard way that correct and intense exercise is king in preventing and treating injuries. A large part of the population walks around with bulging and even herniated discs and they are asymptomatic. This is largely because they don't have other impediments to proper function. 

 

Sitting in a desk or on a boat is not what humans evolved to do. We use our bodies in ways that evolution is still catching up with (or maybe we are the ones being "naturally selected").  My lay person advice for the vast majority of injuries that all of us seem to complain about as we get older is that medication is not a long term solution. I recognize that there are folks who hurt worse than me or have conditions that can only be made livable through drugs. But for most us, exercise and diet are the keys to living a longer pain free life. Why we (including myself) have such a hard time accepting that reality i will never understand. 

 

You wouldn't pause to fix your boat or rifle correctly. You would always preach do the job the right way. Get in the gym and get the body and functionality that nature intended you to have. 

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On ‎1‎/‎18‎/‎2016 at 3:45 PM, hung on a rock said:

He had me get a wrist brace with a splint on the bottom up into the palm.

Picture please?

[Ham]

i feel like its worth noting that the pharmacist of the bunch wanted nothing to do with getting a steroid injection.

[Old plug]

Ham i agree wuth you. I have been educated to the dangers of them. I am not use what they put into my shoulder at Missou. It had gotten to the point that I couldcnot use it. They did it so that i could take the rehab. I know it will be wearing off in a couple more weeks so it my not hve been steroids. What else is there they use. 

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49 minutes ago, Ham said:

i feel like its worth noting that the pharmacist of the bunch wanted nothing to do with getting a steroid injection.

Me neither.

I still think those skinny handles might be a problem.

Your hand and consequently your forearm need to be fully flexed to hang on to those.

The old fat ones don't require that.

Pete