tendon pain, what can I do?

kingkam21

I lift weights Mon-Fri just fine. But on weekends I play football, and baseball with my boys (not on an actual team). When I throw the football or baseball, I get really bad tendon pain in my elbow of my right throwing arm. When I swing the baseball bat I get tendon pain in my left arm. I have tried taking it easy for a couple of weeks, workout out only my legs in the gym and only playing soccer instead of football and baseball and when I did so, I felt fine until I threw the ball again. I believe it is my bicep tendon because for a good 2-3 days after Sunday, I can't use heavy weights when I workout my back or I can't workout my biceps until the middle-end of the week. Are there stretches that anyone can recommend? Do elbow wraps help with this?

Sued0nim

Tendinitis is not something to mess around with

Took me almost a year and total adaptation of workouts to recover ..still get twinges

Neutral hand grips and deload a little, try to take complete rest. Appreciate that elbow pain can indicate anything from shoulder to wrist, joint supports can help ..,see a Physio

Avoid activities that cause pain

kingkam21

rabbitjb wrote: »

Tendinitis is not something to mess around with

Took me almost a year and total adaptation of workouts to recover ..still get twinges

Neutral hand grips and deload a little, try to take complete rest. Appreciate that elbow pain can indicate anything from shoulder to wrist, joint supports can help ..,see a Physio

Avoid activities that cause pain

That's a heart breaker for me. I am very active and love to play baseball. How long of a break should I take? A month or two?

ElizabethOakes2

See your doctor, kingkam. Tendon problems are nothing to mess around with and you can actually seriously cripple yourself. And most tendon problems aren't 'fixable' by anything other than rest, time and proper physical therapy.
A good rule until you can see your doc, is 'if it hurts, don't do it'.

Sued0nim

kingkam21 wrote: »

rabbitjb wrote: »

Tendinitis is not something to mess around with

Took me almost a year and total adaptation of workouts to recover ..still get twinges

Neutral hand grips and deload a little, try to take complete rest. Appreciate that elbow pain can indicate anything from shoulder to wrist, joint supports can help ..,see a Physio

Avoid activities that cause pain

That's a heart breaker for me. I am very active and love to play baseball. How long of a break should I take? A month or two?

Did you miss the Physio bit ? Do that...can't internet diagnose...it might just be a minor thing that minimal effort will resolve

My story isn't yours

I was hoping a few weeks deload would help..it didn't, got worse
A few weeks out of the gym just swimming...nope
Acupuncture ..nope
Physio and time and avoiding arm exercises ...finally working
I cannot tell you how many leg days and dull dull cardio I have had over the last 6 -8 months ...even my trainer was getting bored of them ...still my endurance for running is much improved and I've got legs and glutes of steel now ..so I will take that

Just restarted bench presses and looking forward to a deadlift soon

Injuries are not something to mess around with ...see a professional

Sued0nim

PS it sucks!

bruhaha007

I would take at least 6 weeks off and after ease into a Theraband I have tennis elbow and had golfers elbow. You need to give them time to repair and strengthen your forearm muscles

Chieflrg

KTtape and Thera Band are two of the things that help with revovery and the pain that most people don't know about.

Remove movements or exercises that are likely causing the pain. Lifting this usually is but not limited to skull crushers or overhead trip extensions type movements. Baseball it's usually throwing too many curve balls or bad form snapping your arms extended while swinging

Neoprene elbow sleeves can help keep it the area warm which can be more comfortable for some relieve but isn't a magic healer by any means.

LKArgh

Rest and talk to a dr. If it is a tendon, the best scenario is a few weeks avoiding completely anything that causes pain.

EvgeniZyntx

Look into your lifts as the possible cause - improper grip on bench press, deads or even squats can stress the elbows. (I did it with squats of all things, positioning my arms as bearing under the bar)

Personally I discovered that what I thought was tendon pain was actually cubital nerve entrapment. Doing towel wrings and wrapping my elbow to force an extended position while sleeping helped immensely.

Theraband or voodoo flossing can also help.

But - first see a physio/doc. Proper identification can help.

kingkam21

EvgeniZyntx wrote: »

Look into your lifts as the possible cause - improper grip on bench press, deads or even squats can stress the elbows. (I did it with squats of all things, positioning my arms as bearing under the bar)

Personally I discovered that what I thought was tendon pain was actually cubital nerve entrapment. Doing towel wrings and wrapping my elbow to force an extended position while sleeping helped immensely.

Theraband or voodoo flossing can also help.

But - first see a physio/doc. Proper identification can help.

I don't think it's from my lifts because I only get the pain on weekends when I do sports. The workouts that I can do the most of after my tendon pain are dead lifts and squats because they have less pressure on my bicep tendon. During my bench press, I feel slight pain in my bicep tendon but not as bad as doing back day. I wanted to avoid going to a doc but I will go if I halfto, and in this case it sounds like I halfto if I want to diagnose this problem for the sake of sports