So this is my latest ailment which began a few days after returning from a family vacation last week (all of six days out of the water). Only my right elbow is affected, although I breathe bilaterally. And no, I don't play golf. Anyone else have any experience with this?
I have posted about mine a few times and a search about "elbow pain" should pull up some threads. It is sometimes called "Little League Elbow," but I think "backstroker's elbow" also might be a good name.
Interventions that have helped me include, in no particular order, switching hands with the computer mouse (my job involves a lot of writing, which I do at a keyboard); regular ice (I often would strap an ice pack to my arm while eating breakfast after workout); a cuff that applies pressure right at the tendon attachment (wear it at night); exercising with the Theraband Flexbar; stretching the forearm with the palm against the wall, fingers down, arm externally rotated from the shoulder; and deep tissue massage.
The last time I had a flare-up I muddled along for a while complaining and doing a lot of fist swimming. Then I went for a massage and the therapist worked on my forearm. I thought I would faint from the pain when she started working on the wrist flexor muscles and the tendon that attaches them to the medial epicondyle; they were like little rods in there, so tight and hard. Two or three massages later my forearm was way better, and I quickly ramped my training back up to 20,000+ mostly pain-free yards per week.
I have posted about mine a few times and a search about "elbow pain" should pull up some threads. It is sometimes called "Little League Elbow," but I think "backstroker's elbow" also might be a good name.
Interventions that have helped me include, in no particular order, switching hands with the computer mouse (my job involves a lot of writing, which I do at a keyboard); regular ice (I often would strap an ice pack to my arm while eating breakfast after workout); a cuff that applies pressure right at the tendon attachment (wear it at night); exercising with the Theraband Flexbar; stretching the forearm with the palm against the wall, fingers down, arm externally rotated from the shoulder; and deep tissue massage.
The last time I had a flare-up I muddled along for a while complaining and doing a lot of fist swimming. Then I went for a massage and the therapist worked on my forearm. I thought I would faint from the pain when she started working on the wrist flexor muscles and the tendon that attaches them to the medial epicondyle; they were like little rods in there, so tight and hard. Two or three massages later my forearm was way better, and I quickly ramped my training back up to 20,000+ mostly pain-free yards per week.
