Has anyone ever had an elbow injury/strain that exhibits significant pain with breaststroke (sculling in) and during the pull out on the turns? The pain is on the inside of my elbow very close to where the 'funny bone' is. I don't think I injured it during swimming but it has gotten progressively worse over the past 5-6 years due to a lifting incident. It doesn't bother me swimming freestyle but i can feel it. Maybe one of those arm bands might help??
I'm getting ready to visit an orthopedic in Louisville, KY. Anyone have a recommendation on who to see?
Jim,
Was this wandering around in the corn maze, waving a red flag one of those bizarre webmaster cult rituals that we read about in the National Enquirer?
:confused:
I think a Dr. David Caborn practices down at University of Louisville at Jewish Hospital. I ran into him while he was doing a fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh under Dr. Freddie Fu. He was one of the surgeons on one of my shoulder surgeries.
Dr. Fu specializes in sports orthopedics and takes just a few people on fellowship each year.
Larry:
I know several swimmers who also have had this pain. I have been experiencing it off and on for about a year. I find that if I avoid breastroke that the pain is manageable.
I visited my doctor at the onset of the pain last September. After a diagnosis of golfer's elbow he gave me an anti-inflammatory prescription that did help while I was taking it. The pain returned however when the "drugs" ran out. I have tried the forearm strap and it does help a little but it definitely did not cure me.
My advice is avoid swimmng breastroke as much as possible and hope the pain is goes away. Also try to avoid any activity that will aggravate the injury. Things like using a screwdriver, lifting heavy objects, etc.
Good Luck!
Originally posted by matysekj
No, but everything else in the Enquirer is true!
If you haven't heard of the Amazing Maize Maze, you should try one near you - there are hundreds of them across the country. They cut a huge maze out of a multi-acre cornfield and put in a dozen or so points in the maze where you pick up pieces of the overall maze map. It takes on average 1.5 - 2.5 hours to navigate the maze and pick up all the map pieces. Hey, everybody's got to get their kicks somehow. I still can't believe that carrying that stupid 8 foot piece of PVC pipe you use as an identifying flag started the whole elbow thing!
Sounds like an interesting activity. I do have a question however,
what about the people who have trouble reading maps? Are they still stuck in there somewhere? Are they getting sick of eating raw corn? Well, I guess that was three questions not one:D
