Strained Elbow...

[ghoniba]

Hi Gang:

I have strained my elbow, similar feeling to 'tennis elbow' a pain running from my elbow to my wrist whenever my arm has to deal with any force. It isn't the muscle, I know the difference. I think it is due to the sheer weight of my hammer curl exercises and not to poor technique.

I have been doing them for quite a while and I guess age is creeping up on me!

I just wondered, what is my best plan of action, should I refrain from any exercise that strains my elbow until it heals, use much lighter weights or can anyone suggest a substitute exercise that works the biceps that puts less strain on the elbow?

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

P.S. I really don't want to stop lifting!

[Klinger]

Sounds like tendonitis, but I'm no medical expert. Could be you have weak forearms. Start out with some light wrist curls (15# dbs to start). If it hurts too much with that light weight, check in with your doctor to rule out anything serious.

[ghoniba]

Hi Klinger, thank you for the reply. I had a feeling that it may be tendonitis to, takes forever to heal. A real drag!

Glenn

[AvgGuy]

I got the same problem, sorry I should have replied to this post instead of posting new.


I had this a coupl of months ago, and took 3 weeks off and iced/wore a brace and it was fine, until now. How is yours going?

I think it might be my hammer curls to, I did have a good arm workout and think that may have resulted in flaring up this problem again. What a pain. So does it sound like another 3 weeks of no upper body again, what do you guys think?

I noticed some of the US gymnists, during the last olympics, had on arm braces like my doc recomended so I guess this is not all that uncommon?

thanks