Swimmers Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

RE: Swimmers Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

F0HYA — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:46:10 GMT

Try a forearm Air Cast strap the attaches just below the elbow with the bubble on the muscle there. Have had “tennis” elbow tendinitis from work related injuries and it helps. Wear it tight and like 24-7 hrs a day, it takes time.

RE: Swimmers Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

ForceDJ — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 19:15:17 GMT

One other thing that I meant to mention is that it’s possible, as was my case, that the original injury wasn’t caused by swimming. For me, I’m almost positive that it was caused by some heavy duty yard work I’d been doing…swinging implements (axe, sickle) while clearing underbrush and saplings from an area of my yard. — Dan

RE: Swimmers Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

P6MMB — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:35:17 GMT

Thanks to both of you for your replies. In case it's of use to others, I've been following advice from the website below as well as icing and using topical NSAID's and it's improving fast. Also got the coaching advice to make sure to engage the muscles of the whole shoulder and lats rather than muscling through with the arm and that also seems to make a big difference. Most of you probably know to do this but I'm new to real swimming

Betsy

https://medi-dyne.com/blogs/exercises/swimmers-elbow-exercises

RE: Swimmers Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

ForceDJ — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 13:13:59 GMT

I had a bout with this a couple years ago. In my case it didn’t really keep me awake at night, and it didn’t really hurt while swimming. But, it did present itself a bit more with my upper body weight on my forearms when riding my road bike. Overall, it was really just more of an annoyance. I treated it the standard tendon injury treatments of ice, self-massage, and NSAIDs. Took a while, but eventually went away. — Dan

RE: Swimmers Elbow (lateral epicondylitis)

Kyle Deery — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:23:27 GMT

P6MMB, USMS published an article this week about swimmer's elbow. I hope this can help until you can find a coach.
https://www.usms.org/fitness-and-training/articles-and-videos/articles/what-to-know-about-swimmers-elbow