Do Tennis & Golf Elbow Really Have Cure ?
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at
6:57 pm
I have tennis and golfer's elbow in both elbows (bi-ritual lateral and medial epicondylitis)
for 6 months and it's because of GYM and I can't find a cure, I tried rest,cold,bracelet,physiotherapy
and I don't need to try injection because it fails with many people and it's very painful.
is there anyway to go back to the gym ?
Or it is chronic and i will not be able to go to gym again ?! 
Tagged with: elbow • elbows • medial epicondylitis • physiotherapy • tennis
Filed under: Golf Bracelets
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Your body is, and has become, accustomed to the injury, which is why it has become a chronic problem. My doc told my dad who suffered from tennis elbow for a couple years, did the suggestion (below) and my dad told me THIS works…
– Get a firm spongy ball, but not quite tennis-ball hard, and
– As you flex your arm (abduction),
– Slowly turn (or rotate) the arm inward and
– Squeeze the ball, say 10 times a minute.
– Repeat for 2-3 minutes three times a day
You should feel some pain as the ball is squeezed as you rotate your arm and draw it (your arm) closer to you, but will diminish after a few days. Do that more, for a couple of weeks, and I bet that dang muscle will feel better.
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Ille Nastase (remember him?), when he found out about the body’s being accustomed to the muscle/ligament/tendon tear and not repairing itself – he asked his coach what to do, and his coach got a red-hot iron and put it right on the elbow, searing/branding the skin – which effectively told the body that damage had occurred, repaired itself, and the elbow’s muscle+ligaments was cured at the same time as the damaged skin!! I read about that "technique" years ago back in the 70′s, and have yet to search for a photo for a scar on his elbow – but he was a nut, and so prolly happened.
Try the flexing-the-arm-while-squeezing-the-sponge-ball trick, first, please. Good luck – tennis elbow is no fun. I think the trick is, is that you’re re-injuring the muscle only slightly, and the body is responding and repairing/building up the muscle slowly, over time. Ask your doc, but forget the injections. The technique is cheap, and just requires a bit of discipline – and you can do it while working, too, which is nice.