Well, it's back - that darned medial epicondylitis. On both elbows, too. This is about the 3rd or 4th time. Each time it happens I go to kick sets or bike until the pain is gone; I also do every wrist and forearm exercise I can imagine (grips, wrist curls, rotator and stabilizer exercises). I've tried swimming closed-fisted. I've tried using forearms braces. I've cut out *** stroke altogether. The last few weeks leading up to the re-injury I did nothing but very eeeaassy sidestroke (left side over, right side back). Must I conclude that I just don't have the arms to be even a modest fitness swimmer?
Thanks, y'all.
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For the past few years I was treated for tennis elbow--splints, injections, prolotherapy, rest and finally an MRI.
When I went to the doctor LAST week--we finally decided, due to some new symptoms, that it WASN"T tennis elbow BUT Radial Tunnel syndrome (not carpal tunnel) which sometimes presents as tennis elbow. We injected it---tennis elbow magically gone!!
Also had a coach look at my freestyle--that may have caused the radial tunnel syndrome--I'm straight arming the stroke and not rotating my hand. Now trying to learn how to correct this!
If in addition to everything else--you're getting pain down into the last fingers of your hand and sometimes the pain extends into just the FIRST joint of the middle finger--you may have radial tunnel syndrome and NOT tennis elbow.
For the past few years I was treated for tennis elbow--splints, injections, prolotherapy, rest and finally an MRI.
When I went to the doctor LAST week--we finally decided, due to some new symptoms, that it WASN"T tennis elbow BUT Radial Tunnel syndrome (not carpal tunnel) which sometimes presents as tennis elbow. We injected it---tennis elbow magically gone!!
Also had a coach look at my freestyle--that may have caused the radial tunnel syndrome--I'm straight arming the stroke and not rotating my hand. Now trying to learn how to correct this!
If in addition to everything else--you're getting pain down into the last fingers of your hand and sometimes the pain extends into just the FIRST joint of the middle finger--you may have radial tunnel syndrome and NOT tennis elbow.
