Radial tunnel syndrome

ljodpundari;87408] My left arm has been bothering me since January, and the orthopaedist finally narrowed it down to radial tunnel (as opposed to tennis elbow, etc.). I got a cortisone shot last Monday, and actually started swimming a bit this week (rather than just kick sets). I'm still doing the stretches and exercises the therapist gave me back when we thought it was tennis elbow (can't type lateral epicondylitis very well:rolleyes: ) Any other ideas about how to help this along? Here's a good article about this condition: www.handuniversity.com/topics.asp What about stroke mechanics? Are there particular things I should watch out for? I'm just doing *** and free right now, though I want to get back to butterfly eventually. I just don't want to mess things up worse than they are already. One of the causes for Radial Tunnel Syndrome is excessive bending of the wrist backwards, however none of your strokes involves this possible action (FR, BR and FL). I could see it happening in BK where some people could bend the wrist back, excessively -thinking they are "reaching"- upon entry (and these people will usually cross their body's long axis). Are you left-handed? Do you use your mouse with the left hand and do not support your whole forearm when using the mouse (i.e., only the base of your palm is on the desk/mousepad and your whole arm is straight-ish from wrist to shoulder)? I had a similar situation (but I'm righ-handed) and found that adding an L-shaped extension to my desk surface to support my whole right forearm helped (along with regular application of Heat Ointment, BenGay, A535, etc...) Good Luck and hope it gets better.

ljodpundari;87408] My left arm has been bothering me since January, and the orthopaedist finally narrowed it down to radial tunnel (as opposed to tennis elbow, etc.). I got a cortisone shot last Monday, and actually started swimming a bit this week (rather than just kick sets). I'm still doing the stretches and exercises the therapist gave me back when we thought it was tennis elbow (can't type lateral epicondylitis very well:rolleyes: ) Any other ideas about how to help this along? Here's a good article about this condition: www.handuniversity.com/topics.asp What about stroke mechanics? Are there particular things I should watch out for? I'm just doing *** and free right now, though I want to get back to butterfly eventually. I just don't want to mess things up worse than they are already. One of the causes for Radial Tunnel Syndrome is excessive bending of the wrist backwards, however none of your strokes involves this possible action (FR, BR and FL). I could see it happening in BK where some people could bend the wrist back, excessively -thinking they are "reaching"- upon entry (and these people will usually cross their body's long axis). Are you left-handed? Do you use your mouse with the left hand and do not support your whole forearm when using the mouse (i.e., only the base of your palm is on the desk/mousepad and your whole arm is straight-ish from wrist to shoulder)? I had a similar situation (but I'm righ-handed) and found that adding an L-shaped extension to my desk surface to support my whole right forearm helped (along with regular application of Heat Ointment, BenGay, A535, etc...) Good Luck and hope it gets better.