I've lifted religiously for about 25 years now, but as I approach middle age the past few years when lifting my non-dominant arm gets this persistent pain / tendonitis / inflammation feeling all throughout my upper forearm, elbow, and lower bicep areas to the point where I've completely avoided certain isolate workouts like curls, skullcrushers etc. for the past year. Lugging a toddler and a baby around all day I'm sure don't help but its cutting into my gains and is annoying.

Finally broke down and went to an orthopedist. He squeezed around in there and basically said, well since you didn't jump out of the chair when I did that, it isn't that bad, prescribed some celebrex and sent me on my way. Well, the whole point is I don't want it to get that bad...

Anyone have some good suggestions on how to alleviate something like this, physical therapy techniques, etc? I wear a compression sleeve on it. Would be nice not to be limited in workouts anymore, and I want to nip this in the bud before it becomes a permanent lingering thing.

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Posted by way_south

Member since Jul 2017

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Posted on 3/4/24 at 2:15 pm to BoudinChicot

I had something similar out of the blue. Originally diagnosed as tennis elbow because of the symptoms I was having. I put off surgery and did PT, PRP and nothing helped. Turned out one of my tendons was torn up and looked like swiss cheese, the MD actually showed me while he was doing the surgery.

Two years wasted trying to avoid surgery, 3 months after surgery I was at 90%. I guess my point is, if you go see someone see a specialist for your issue not just an ortho, I saw a guy that did over 100 knee surgeries a year, but only 1 or 2 elbows originally. Once I pressed him for more of an elbow expert I received some pretty clear and consice advice, did surgery in his office on a Friday afternoon and wish I had met him two years earlier.

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Posted by BoudinChicot

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Posted on 3/4/24 at 2:54 pm to way_south

Thanks, my guess is the guy I went to was also knee specialist. He seemed legit though, had sports memorabilia in the office from various professional teams he'd worked for.

What type of PT exercises did you do for it? If I can't get it to clear up on its own I'll probably explore surgery options as well down the road. I'm also taking glucosamine chondritin and putting collagen in my protein shakes hoping that helps...

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Posted by way_south

Member since Jul 2017

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Posted on 3/4/24 at 4:04 pm to BoudinChicot

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I'm also taking glucosamine chondritin and putting collagen

I did this too.

I went to PT at a local place, they had me do all kinds of stuff. Pretty much the standard stretches, rolling up and down a chain on a bar, twist exercises, I even did dry needling along with electrical stimulation at the PT office.

I can reccommend a MD if you're in my area, I am on the northshore and was very happy when I finally landed with the guy who did my surgery. He gave me three options, surgery at the hospital, which would require pre-op and getting knocked out, surgery at a surgery center, and surgery in office and the ability to pay cash. My insurance sucks and the cash price would surprise you.

Not saying we're in the same boat with surgery, a lot of people can get beyond this stuff. I was just not in that situation with my tendon tear and he idenified it immediately with xrays where the other guy did not.

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Posted by BoudinChicot

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Posted on 3/5/24 at 7:35 am to way_south

Thanks man, might take u up on that recommendation if this doesn't work out

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Posted by way_south

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Posted on 3/5/24 at 7:42 am to BoudinChicot

I'll just drop it in case I don't see you respond in a few months. Good luck and hope you can get past it with PT or rest.

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Posted by tenderfoot tigah

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Posted on 3/6/24 at 4:15 pm to way_south

Try collagen peptide protein. This + tumeric eliminited my hip and elbow pain. It also worked wonders for my buddy who had a knee injury.

Please take this serious, spend $40 on it, and report back.

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Posted by PrezCock

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Member since Sep 2019

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Posted on 3/6/24 at 5:01 pm to BoudinChicot

Try heavy slow resistance. 3 seconds of concentric phase of movement followed by a 3 second eccentric phase of movement with no pause between reps. Tempo count would look like 3-3-0. Use the exercise that seems to aggravate it the most. Do 3 sets of 8 reps. Now this is important, choose a weight that doesn't hurt but you can definitely feel discomfort at the spot you have problems with. When it improves increase the weight so it causes that discomfort again. Rinse and repeat. You can do these exercises every other day.

Heavy Slow Resistance is a tried and true method in helping to correctly remodel tissue damaged by tendonitis/tendonosis.

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