How many of you all have experience with this?
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?
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.
Anybody have any advice?
Thanks
Tom
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islandsox;87445]
However, having said that, if an injury of any kind requires cortizone injections, they can be magical to a point.
donna
Just a note of caution about cortisone injections; they do relieve the pain (i.e., mask the symptoms) but do not cure the cause. I did get a cortisone injection when I had injured three of my four rotator cuff muscles (cause unknown); the pain did almost vanish but for the following few days I had to be very aware that I was injured and very careful not to aggravate the injury by doing any contra-indicated movement, which the absence of pain might let my body think I could get away with doing.
islandsox;87445]
However, having said that, if an injury of any kind requires cortizone injections, they can be magical to a point.
donna
Just a note of caution about cortisone injections; they do relieve the pain (i.e., mask the symptoms) but do not cure the cause. I did get a cortisone injection when I had injured three of my four rotator cuff muscles (cause unknown); the pain did almost vanish but for the following few days I had to be very aware that I was injured and very careful not to aggravate the injury by doing any contra-indicated movement, which the absence of pain might let my body think I could get away with doing.
