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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The puzzling thing is, I'm right-handed. Most of what I've read about this says that it's usually due to some sort of rotation (I guess your backstroke example might come under that heading). But I almost always do things like that with my right hand. I'm very careful with backstroke because it seems to stress my shoulders if I get sloppy.
Right now I start getting a minor ache in my forearm if I try swimming more than about 100m, so I take that as a signal to go back to kicking for a while.
Thanks for the feedback. The Hand University link is a good one. My orthopaedist recommended it to me back when we were trying to figure out what my problem really was. I think I'm lucky to have a doc who believes in keeping patients informed.
The puzzling thing is, I'm right-handed. Most of what I've read about this says that it's usually due to some sort of rotation (I guess your backstroke example might come under that heading). But I almost always do things like that with my right hand. I'm very careful with backstroke because it seems to stress my shoulders if I get sloppy.
Right now I start getting a minor ache in my forearm if I try swimming more than about 100m, so I take that as a signal to go back to kicking for a while.
Thanks for the feedback. The Hand University link is a good one. My orthopaedist recommended it to me back when we were trying to figure out what my problem really was. I think I'm lucky to have a doc who believes in keeping patients informed.
