Effective Tennis Elbow Treatment
I have a sore elbow that appeared out of nowhere. Woke up with it one morning and it’s really bothering me. My left elbow is the one that’s sore, and I happen to have a mild case of cerebral palsy on my left side. Naturally because of my CP, I can’t use my left arm very much. I don’t know if I slept on it funny or did something to it without realizing it. Should I have any cause for concern?
I injured my elbow in February during school vacation. I thought it was bruised so I figured it would eventually heal. I work in a school kitchen and do a lot of heavy lifting and repetitive motions. My elbow had become more painful as time went on so I finally got it checked a few weeks ago. I did not file it as a workmans comp issues because I injured it at home and chose to work regardless of the pain. My doctor diagnosed me with Tennis elbow and said to stay out of work for 3 weeks, got a cortizone shot and will have physical therapy. He said it was important to rest the arm. I sent in this dr.s note but work forced me to go see their workman comp drs who are not allowed to say no work but light duty. Basically, light duty how they put it means I can perform none of my regular job duties except wipe down counters as I cannot use my left arm. They also said it is not work related but a personal injury that will not recieve workmans comp. Fine with me I never intended to do the workmans comp thing because as I said…it was a personal injury. I have 17 days of sick time and planned to use it to rest the arm..MY dr.s orders. My boss says I can go back to work tomorrow and then said well he can tell his boss that he has an employee that refuses to go back to work. I will literally sit there and do nothing which is not faiir to the other 2 employees that have to do the a 3 person job while I sit and watch. Is this legal? Can he force me back since I have a doctors note. Whose doctors note is the one to go by..their doctor or mine since it is not work related?
It is a personal injury and I gave them a note from my doctor stating I could not return to work until further evaluation by him. My sick days are earned and I am allowed to use them for personal sick time or family sick time. Isnt this in the lines of the medical leave act? They had no cause to send me to another doctor as it is not a work related injury.
Basically, he is not asking me to perform duties I can do. He is asking me to go to work and do nothing but sit there. I know some may say hey go for it but I have been in the opposite situation where we had our 3rd person sit there and do nothing and it was very hard on 2 people doing a 3 person job. Why not just follow my doctors orders and give me the earned medical leave that I have acquired and was told to take by my doctor?
I keep having aches over my body, including my chest..I feel tired alot of the time, my left arm feels really weak and my elbow joint wrist and fingers are sore.. i get occasional pain in my left shoulder.. I have a balanced diet.. I dont eat very healthy things but I eat alot of fruit and veg aswell.. Doc tried to pin it on anxiety but im not an anxious person.. I live a pretty stress free lifestyle.. People say im so laid back im horizontal lol.. Im also having head aches and pain on my eyes.. the head ache seems to occur at the sides of my head and top.. got blood tests done and nothing came up.. Doc gave me amoxicillin for inflamation in my ears.. so tht might explain head aches.. and light headedness.. My hands and feet seem to be quite cold alot of the time I heard thats something to do with circulation but Im not sure.. any ideas people? (Oh i recently had a viral throat infection and doc said it might be post viral fatigue *blood test covered glandular fever*)
i don’t know why. how can i get rid of the pain pls? thx
Last night I used nair shower power on my arms. I woke up this morning and had red scabby dots covering my left arm from the elbow up. It hurts and I need to know what I can do to get rid of it ASAP!!
My elbow has been hurting me for a couple of years now. It started when I worked at a smoothie place my senior year of school. During my shift, if we were having a really busy day, I would be about to pour a smoothie in to the cup when all of a sudden, I would get this shooting feeling from my elbow down to my pinky and I would almost lose my grip on the blender.
It’s a sort of dull achy pain. I also get it from being on the computer for a long time. (like typing). I have noticed that when I run two fingers down my arm from my elbow to my pinky, I can make the pain start, so I’m wondering if its a nerve thing.It’s mostly the inside of my elbow that hurts.
It’s very achy. I use Asper Cream on it. Thats all I have.
Has anyone had this happen to them before? It’s been almost 3 years now since I noticed it. I have had no injuries to it (besides getting stung by a bee about a month ago around that area). My pinky goes numb. This is my left arm, btw.
I’m probably going to go to the doctor when I get on break this week. But I really wanted to know if anyone has had this problem before. Please, serious answers only.
I just started playing tennis weekly and my forearm muscle is really getting sore. Is there any exercises i should perform before i play to prevent this? Also, is there any good warm-ups for tennis? The last thing is about my right arm. I play with my right arm, and i’m currently in bowling. I really don’t want my right arm to get stronger and my left arm be scrawny. How can i prevent this? Thanks!
I cannot lift the same weight on my left arm. It doesnt affect my daily routine. Its the inner left side of my elbow. Help please
my shoulder and elbow really hurts on my left arm. whenever i lock my elbow, there’s this shooting pain. what is it and do i ice it or heat it?
I woke up a few days ago and my elbow was killing me. I waited a day thinking I must have done something when I was sleeping to hurt it. But its been like 3 days and I cant use my left arm without feeling a really strong pain in the elbow. I am thinking I have not done any sports in a few weeks and I did not hit my elbow into anything and its not the way I sleep so why is my elbow hurting me? Thanks in advance.
well then if I have not done any sports have not hit it in any way and did not injure it during the night then what would cause the pain?
I guess I have 2 parts to my question.
1. I have just started playing golf for the first time. I am 26 years old. I have been taking tips from my friends who have been playing since they where kids. I after about a week or so, my left forearm, wrist and back started to get sore (I’m right-handed). There is actually a light sharp pain in my left elbow joint when I try to fully extend my left arm. Does this mean my swing form is incorrect?
2. I can officially admit that I love this game and I am addicted to it. I just played my first 9 holes and I love the game even more. However, after about 4 weeks of playing my left forearm and wrist remains sore. I know I should stop and let it heal, but I always hear practicing everyday will improve your game. I should mention that I am not hitting over 100 balls everytime I visit the driving range. The most I would do is about 50. Is it good to practice your swing when your sore?
Okay, so i woke up today.
And i TRIED making my left arm straight.
It worked but when i did, it hurt.
I came home early
and as im sitting here typing.
its starting to hurt even more.
I have a doc. appointment at 5:30 im
def. gonna tell him about this.
It sorta feels like its at least an inch or too away from the elbow itself.
Its sorta behind the elbow.
Pleaaassseee help!
it hurts so much
My 8 years old son is suffering from Erb’s palsy in left arm. Extension movements in elbow and shoulder are very poor. So can anybody tell me best treatment for nerve injury.
I’m right handed, and use a mouse with my right hand, but have tendinitis in my left elbow. I know several other right-handed people with a similar problem.
I’m not a very active person, besides walking two to three miles per day. The only thing I use my left arm for is typing on a keyboard.
I "baby" my arm, so it is very weak compared to my other arm. It flairs up occassionally. I also have tennis elbow due to an injury years ago. The swelling is right in the elbow area (not sure if there is a correlation.) I am only 38, and want to do martial arts training, which entails wearing tight hand wraps and boxing gloves, not to mention a lot of punching, etc. Will this only aggravate the symptoms? I plan to contact my doctor this week before continuing, but just wanted to see if anyone else has lymphedema and boxes. THANKS.
I am a sophomore in high school and have been pitching for several years. Recently, I have been throwing an increasing number of curve balls, and have been playing on the varsity tennis team, which practices every day.
When I pitch (especially on curve balls), serve, or hit a forehand, my arm experiences pain on the outside of the arm in between the elbow and shoulder. I ice it and it feels better, but when I pitch,serve, or hit a forehand the next day, it hurts again. Also, my left arm (I’m a lefty pitcher and tennis) feels much weaker when I try to hold things out in front of me. For example, if i take a full gatorade bottle and extend my right arm out, I have no problem keeping it out there for ever. With my left arm, it shakes when I try to hold the bottle out there, and I can’t hold it straight out for long.
I asked the school trainer and she said it was a bicep injury just from over use, or a muscle strain. Is that what it is or could it be something else? Also, what can I do to make the pain go away, or heal the injury?
I was swimming, and all of a sudden, I could not move my left arm. Now, one day later, it feels really bad when I straighten my arm. Almost like I need to crack it (like cracking your knuckles); I have to work in less then 2 hours, and I was wondering if there is anything I can do to either keep it bent, or help the pain.. ANY IDEAS????
healed yet from surgery. I had tennis elbow surgery on both arms. My right arm was done first and is still a bit sore and my left arm is still not fully healed from the surgery and the doctor said I have to return to work in 5 weeks no matter what. What??? I guess I am not healing fast enough for him or something. My tendonitis is still active and I am still going to physical therapy twice a week. I don’t think I should be forced back to work before this is completely healed. Isn’t there anything that I can do?
with it? My right arm was operated on in November and was doing well but now I feel it again with certain activity, and my left arm was done in March and is still not healed. This madness has gone on for three years. Please tell me there is hope!
tendonitis of both arms and tennis elbow of both arms for 3 years. I have been going to physical therapy on and off for 3 years. The first year it started out in my wrist, so I went for physical therapy and it went away. When it came back the next year it went up my forearms, so I went to physical therapy and it went away. The third year it went to my elbows and I have been out of work since April of 2006. I tried therapy for 6 months as to try and rule out surgery. It did not work this time so I had both arms operated on. I had the tennis elbow surgery done arthroscopically. I have been going to therapy twice a week since April of 2006. My right arm was operated on November 06 and my left arm March 07. I am still going to physical therapy. My right arm was doing well for a while and is acting up again, and my left arm, although has gotten somewhat better, refuses to heal. My doctor told me that he is sending me back to work without restrictions at my next appt. I know that I will further injure myself if I do.
This is a workers comp case from an injury at work and my lawyers can’t do anything against what my doctors say. So my question for you is, why am I not healing as fast as the doctors believe I should be? And is there something else that I could have where maybe I was misdiagnosed and that could possibly be the reason that I am not responding to the treatment that I am getting? The pain has moved to the inside of my elbow joints now and is traveling back down my forearms in the pain of tendoinitis again. I am very distraught about this. I feel I have done everthing I could possibly do to cure this problem. They have never given me and MRI even when I asked for one. I need to find a doctor that will listen to me and not worry about stepping on another doctors "toes" and really hear my concerns. I don’t want to end up totally disabled, I want to be healed. What should I do? I really don’t know what to do anymore. I just want my arms back so I can go back to my normal life.
My questions are these: Is there something I can have besides what they are saying? Is there any other treatment that can advance my healing? Will an MRI show things that might have been missed? How do I get a doctor to listen to me? Why am I not healing as fast as they "think I should?" I really need advice from a professional in this area. I am not messing around, I am not trying to stay out of work, I am being honest with my concerns and I feel like nobody cares. Please help!!!
In response to Mystify’s thorough and helpful answer, My pain started in my right arm and my left arm followed. It is a repetitive injury I incurred at work from typing all day which I believe to have been a poorly set up work station.
I need help with this short story! Here’s the story:
Corlette ‘The Hand’
He had fallen asleep on his young wife’s shoulder, and she proudly bore the weight of the man’s head, blond, ruddy-complexioned, eyes closed. He had slipped his big arm under the small of her slim, adolescent back, and his strong hand lay on the sheet next to the young woman’s right elbow. She smiled to see the man’s hand emerging there, all by it self and far away from its owner. Then she let her eyes wander over the half-lit room. A veiled conch shed a light across the bed the color of periwinkle.
"Too happy to sleep," she thought.
Too excited also, and often surprised by her new state. It had been only two weeks since she had began to live the scandalous life of a newlywed who tastes the joys of living with someone unknown and with whom she is in love. To meet a handsome, blond young man, recently widowed, good at tennis and rowing, to marry him amonth later: her conjugal adventure had been little more than a kidnapping. So that whenever she lay awake beside her husband, like tonight, she still kept her eyes cosed for along time, then opened them again in order to savor, with astonishment, the blue of the brand-new curtains, instead of the apricot-pink through which the first light of day filtered into the room where she had slept as a little girl.
A quiver ran through the sleeping body lying next to her, and she tightened her left arm around her husband’s neck with the charming authority exercised by weak creatures. He did not wake up.
"His eyelashes are so long," she said to herself.
To herself she also praised his mouth, full and likable, his skin the color of pink brick, and even his forehead, neither noble nor broad, but still smooth and unwrinkled.
Her husband’s right hand, lying beside her, quivered in turn, and beneath the curve of her back she felt the right arm, on which her whole weight was resting, come to life.
"I’m so heavy…I wish I could get up and turn the light off. But he’s sleeping so well…"
The arm twisted again, feebly, and she arched her back to make herself lighter.
"It’s as if I were lying on some animal," she thought.
She turned her head a little on the pillow and looked at the hand lying there next to her.
"It’s so big! It really is bigger than my whole head."
The light, flowing out from under the edge of a parasol of bluish crystal, spilled up against the hand, and made every contour of the skin apparent, exaggerating the powerful knuckles and the veins engorged by the pressure on the arm. A few red hairs, at the base of the fingers, all curved in the same direction, like ears of wheat in the wind, and the flat nails, whose ridges the nail vuffer had not smoothed out, gleamed, coated with pink varnish.
"I’ll tell him not to varnish his nails," thought the young wife. "Varnish and pink polish don’t go with a hand so…a hand that’s so…"
An electric jolt ran through the hand and spared the young woman from having to find the right adjective. The thumb stiffened itself out, horribly long and spatulate, and pressed tightly against the index finger, so that the the hand suddenly took on a vile, apelike appearance.
"Oh!" whispered the young woman, as though faced with something slightly indecent.
The sound of a passing car pierced the silence with a shrillness that seemed luminous. The sleeping man did not wake, but the hand, offended, reared back and tensed up in the shape of a crab and waited, ready for battle.The screeching sound died down and the hand, relaxing gradually, lowered its claws, and became a pliant beast, awkwardly bent, shaken by faint jerks which resembled some sort of agony. The flat, cruel nail of the over long thumb glistened. A curve in the little finger, which the young woman had never noticed, appeared, and the wallowing hand revealed its fleshy palm like a red belly.
"And I’ve kissed that hand!…How horrible! Haven’t I ever looked at it?"
The hand, disturbed by a bad dream, appeared to respond to this startling discovery, this disgust. It regrouped its forces, opened wide, and splayed its tendons, lumps, and red fur like battle dress, then slowly drawing itself in again, grabbed a fistful of the sheer, dug into it with its curved fingers, and squeezed, squeezed with the methodical pleasure of a strangler.
"Oh!" cried the young woman.
The hand disappeared and a moment later the big arm, relieved of its burden, became a protective belt, a warm bulwark against all the terrors of night. But the next morning, when it was time for breakfast in bed-hot chocolate and toast-she saw the hand again, with its red hair and red skin, and the ghastly thumb curving out over the handle of the knife.
"Do you want this slice, darling? I’ll butter it for you."
She shuddered and felt her skin crawl on the back of her arms and down her back.
"Oh, no…no…"
Then she concealed her fear, bravely subdued herself, and, beginning her life of duplicity, of resignation, and of a
here’s the last sentence of the story, it cut off at the end..
lowly, delicate diplomacy, she leaned over and humbly kissed the monstrous hand.
http://moodle.parkrose.k12.or.us/mod/resource/view.php?id=679
here’s the last sentence of the story, it cut off at the end..
lowly, delicate diplomacy, she leaned over and humbly kissed the monstrous hand.
http://moodle.parkrose.k12.or.us/mod/resource/view.php?id=679
here’s the last sentence of the story, it cut off at the end..
lowly, delicate diplomacy, she leaned over and humbly kissed the monstrous hand.
http://moodle.parkrose.k12.or.us/mod/resource/view.php?id=679
i played alot of video games and basketball over the summer. i sat on a little chair when i was playin gears of war. for several hours. and one day. i felt a weakness on my dominant (right arm). after that i couldnt really shoot cuz my arm was weak. first i thought it was tennis elbow but it wasnt. 2 months later i still had this problem. so i went to physical therapy. the massage lady told me it was back muscle tissue damage. she said that it was the blood blockage of my arm. so the blood really didnt flow cuz i had this tissue damage. she said that it’ll heal. i know that. i get soo frustrated cuz my arm is fuckin weak!!! my left arm is stronger than my dominant arm!!! i cant fuckin shoot. i know its gonna heal but i havent done any treatment for my back for 2 months. am i gonna get 100% strength back? i feel a little better now cuz i know what the problem is causin my arm weakness. when she was massaging my back i felt a bumpiness on my back. she told me thats where i damaged.
I’m 13 and when I finish doing pushups, slightly after I get a pain on the sides of my elbow. What is happening?
And it is only on my left arm so I’m doing one hand pushups on the other.
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