tendonitis/tennis elbow…help!?
i posed this question in diet and fitness as well because i lift weights alot, but i’m also curious if anyone in this forum can help me too. i lift weights 5-6 days a week. afew months ago i must have done something alittle bit off when i was working out, b/c my inner and outer elbow started bothering me. it’s just gotten worse. my doc gave me a steroid shot that helped temporarily, however he said i would need surgery to correct it permanently. i’m wondering if anyone has advice or experience with this, maybe physical therapy? please help, sorry so long!
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I’ve never hurt mine bad enough to require surgery, but I have had some pretty bad cases of elbow tendonitis. If the doctor says you can do without the surgery, there are a couple things you can do. There are some elbow bands that wrap tightly around you bicep/tricep to give the muscles something besides the tendon to pull on while doing normal activities. These work pretty well. Your doc may also prescribe some anti-inflammatory meds to reduce the swelling. If he is giving you cortizone shots and telling you that you need surgery though, the injury is probably more severe than mine, and this won’t be enough to help. If you do have the surgery, I have no doubt that you will have some PT afterwards. Your best source of info about this is your doctor.
For tennis elbow, they have this straps that you can get at a drug store where they have the ace bangages and stuff like that, you wear this thing just below your elbow and I’m not sure how it works, but after using it for a while, even while working out, mine went away.