Tennis elbow anyone?

[oracleslave]

Not yet, but sasguru is on his way.

[Weltchy]

I got it more from weight lifting/training rather than the tennis... but I don't really want to rest it for very long.

How long have you had to rest it to get back close to 100%?

The tendons and muscles on my forearm near to the elbow are sore to touch when pressed, and its been like this for nearly 2 months now. However, I've not given it much rest, playing squash twice a week and badminton once a week.

The longest break I had was for about two weeks, at which point it felt good, but weak, and stupidly I decided to play Badminton, which put me back to square one.

[crimdon]

I got my tennis elbow from playing the Mario Olympics on my daughter's Wii. I heard from a few people that you can get injections into your elbow that bring the swelling down but I didn't bother. Rested it for a couple of months and it seemed to put itself right.

At its worse, making a fist or casting a fly rod was really painful

[ChimpMaster]

The tendons and muscles on my forearm near to the elbow are sore to touch when pressed, and its been like this for nearly 2 months now. However, I've not given it much rest, playing squash twice a week and badminton once a week.

The longest break I had was for about two weeks, at which point it felt good, but weak, and stupidly I decided to play Badminton, which put me back to square one.

If you keep on working the elbow aggressively (as you did) the problem with escalated into tendonitis or tendonosis, which is chronic pain that cannot be cured.

So take a break and get it seen to.

I've had my pain for a week and have already got physio lined up through my GP.

[Sausage Surprise]

I get it through playing golf.
Do not go down the injections route as it's only a temporary fix.
I tried physio which sort of helped but I ended up having a minor op which sorted it. I was told there was only a 2/3 chance of the op working but in my case it did.

[DodgyAgent]

Just got it for over working my right arm (oo-er)

Anyone had it, got any tips for a fast cure?

Tennis elbow is usually caused by gripping a racket with too thin a grip. Whatever it is you are gripping regularly I suggest that you wrap a few layers of tape around it.

[expat]

99, change hands.

HTH

maybe we need a coffee-on-keyboard smiley?

[bogeyman]

Only suffer from housemaids knee myself. That and the odd case of badgers arse after too much Guinness.