Adventure riding with tennis elbow

[Underground]

Just wondering if anyone else has suffered this condition and had to do a rapid rehabilitation.
I've got about 20 days before I do 5 days of intense riding including the Dusty Butt .....and before anyone says it, not riding isnt an option.
This seems to have been bought on by a combination of the WAR ride followed by several days intensive work on the boat tying mussel floats on and some serious fishing activity (personally I think the work was responsible)
So far I've been using a Tens machine, Ice, compression bandage and I've been resting it by only using my left hand to hold my beer glass.
All i'm asking for is a miracle cure :rolleyes:

[Motu]

At least it's your right hand. When I had tennis elbow (may have been a torn ligament) back in 2000 it was my left hand and I couldn't pull in a clutch. Fortunately my XLV750 was off the road with a charging ploblem, my KT250 was being rebored and fork springs being made, and the XS650 had a carb problem. By the time my elbow was sorted so were my bikes....it's a matter of timing.

[pete376403]

I've got photo in one of my speedway books of Peter Collins, who was competing with a broken right wrist. He put the twist grip on the left side and rode like that. All he had to remember was to twist the other way. You could try that :msn-wink:

[Underground]

Thanks guys, timing really is the issue here and I dont think its so much the throttle as squeezing the brake lever that is a concern.
Any way I've got 18 days then I'll just stock up on painkillers I guess

[pete376403]

I had a look at your bike build thread on advrider so you're a pretty accomplished engineer. So it should be a doddle for you to buld a linked brake setup and use the foot pedal for all your braking needs.

[pete-blen]

:Oi: how hard can it be to ride the DB1 with one hand...
yer need a challenge once in a while...:cool:

[Underground]

:Oi: how hard can it be to ride the DB1 with one hand...
yer need a challenge once in a while...:cool:

:niceone:sorted ....thanks Pete, that way I can just use my right hand to wave to all the riders I'm overtaking!

[Padmei]

I feel your pain... sometimes when I get tendonitis.
On the Molesworth ride the other day I tried out my ingenious cruise control device.

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/padmei_crayfish/2011-12-31_15-03-51_608_Nelson.jpg

A mtb tyre lever with a couple of rubberbands stretched around it. I got the idea from a off the shelf professional looking number. To activate it twist the throttle open & slide the lever so it makes contact with the brake lever which holds the throttle open until you wish to close the throttle.

http://i710.photobucket.com/albums/ww103/padmei_crayfish/2011-12-31_15-03-22_512_Nelson.jpg

I can hear howls of laughter already from the bling purchasers however it gives your right hand that few minutes rest on the long straights to get the blood flowing properly. I rode from Richmond to Nelson passing cars with my right hand on the tank.

[Underground]

Awesome Padmei...looks kindof dangerous, but awesome all the same.
I hadn't thought as far as the cruise control devices yet, my mind has been obcessed with rehabilitation.

[Padmei]

It's safe enough as it is only really held open by a bit of rubber band tension. It can be turned off easily & only really used when needed.
Anti-inflammatories are wonderful things for short term use.

[buggsubique]

Snorting lines of Nurofen at each fuel stop?

Sorry, not helpful I know...so while I'm at it: Padmei, the odds look good for upping the life insurance, the family could be on to a winner there! Even the inattention created by momentarily setting / adjusting the thing could cause an accident IMHO. Sorry, had to say it. 10/10 for creativity though.

[Cary]

Been having weekly physio treatment on tennis elbow for about the last month, right hand can squeeze 140 left is only good for 40-60, right hand must be doing something ummm right..... (gutter comments to follow.....):bleh:3

Luckily the tennis elbow doesn't affect my riding at all, did the Birch Adv ride and boxing day trail ride at Maramaura without noticing any extra pain.

1500+ k's over DB1K weekend will be a good test (pain killers packed just in case)

If you have it real bad get one of those velcro compression bands for just below the elbow, do work.(reread, u got one)

[Underground]

Been having weekly physio treatment on tennis elbow for about the last month, right hand can squeeze 140 left is only good for 40-60, right hand must be doing something ummm right..... (gutter comments to follow.....):bleh:3

Luckily the tennis elbow doesn't affect my riding at all, did the Birch Adv ride and boxing day trail ride at Maramaura without noticing any extra pain.

1500+ k's over DB1K weekend will be a good test (pain killers packed just in case)

If you have it real bad get one of those velcro compression bands for just below the elbow, do work.(reread, u got one)

Share the love Cary....change hands :laugh:
My pain seems to be lessening but from what I can find out the condition tends to linger for quite a while. Think I'll head off to town for some accupuncture.

[alane]

Maybe Ryan could organise video games @ the GLADSTONE for the weekend,for the jerry-atricks --injured & infirm.:killingme









Is,nt there a WORD for people who laugh @ there own jokes???:o

[Cary]

Share the love Cary....change hands :laugh:
My pain seems to be lessening but from what I can find out the condition tends to linger for quite a while. Think I'll head off to town for some accupuncture.Yep, most people i've asked say that even with treatment and looking after it your still looking at 6 months and the physio says unless looked after it will never go away. Both the Doc and physio say it's a difficult injury to treat and most of the time can only be managed.

My physio is doing accupuncture as well as the physio side and I would put the brief pain i get per session from her up there with a root canal or tooth extraction!!

Time for that cruiser........

[Taz]

Time for that cruiser........

Faggot! .

[Bams]

Sorry to hear of your tennis elbow. I’ ve had in the past tendon problems in my shoulder which took 2 years to get rid of and more recently golfer elbow which it took 1 yr to move off still not confident I have seen the last of this one but shit the tricks i wish I had learnt at the beginning is not to let it get set in in the beginning by aggravating it and ignoring it .
Now what did help was lots of ice to keep the inflammation down find some exercises to help build strength in the area slowly and keep the area stretched out find some good stretches you can do . I found just keep going, keep working and be mindful what aggravates it and over aggravating it will fuck it and set it back I’m sorry to say these things can take time your best chance of getting rid of it fast is at the START ! by resting, icing then some heat(wheat bag) then icing it again to try to increase blood supply and not aggravating it and it may just pass in a couple of weeks. (tendons seem to have a memory and very poor blood flow for repairing themselves and a love for getting inflamed )this tends to makes them slow to fix
For me vibrations were a killer and I have heard of ant vibration cloves you can get from safety stores for builders and maybe swap your brake and clutch if this can be done ???.
Good Luck mate

[DR650gary]

No promises and it may not work for you.

Hold a broom in the affected arm with the broom head up in the air at twelve o'clock. Adjust the place where you hold the broom so that approx 75% of the weight is at the top. Slowly rotate the broom head to 9 o'clock and hold for a few seconds then slowly rotate back to 12 o'clock. The key is slowly and keep your arm as straight as possible. Do about 15 movements, rest 30 seconds and repeat twice more. Do this 3 time through the day and try to avoid any rotational lifting with that arm at all.

If your GP won't dose you with cortizone the above provides heaps of relief if you can remember to do it.

I have "Squash" elbow in the right and "Golfer's" in the left and use the above whenever the pain gets severe. Surgery is probably the only long term treatment but the following may also work for you.

http://www.uptodate.com/contents/patient-information-elbow-tendinopathy-tennis-and-golf-elbow

Cheers

[Shadowjack]

October-ish 2010, I unknowingly partly-tore a right elbow tendon. I didn't immediately get help and the eventual physio treatment I went for didn't help. I had no grip strength, and constant pain.
I got sent for Xrays and scans in Jan 2011, the diagnosis was made and a treatment plan devised, the lowest level of intervention being a blood injection to the affected area. During the treatment/recovery time, I wore a neoprene elbow support from Stirling Sports IIRC, which helped, as well as physio supplied exercises, heat and cold treatment.
It still twinges on occasion, and shoveling liquefaction doesn't help.
As others here have said, don't mess around with it, get it seen to. Mine cost me a TT2000 - a small price given the consequences of running out of braking hand strength.

[Underground]

thanks for all the helpful advice people :niceone:
Timing was good so I got plenty of rest (even stayed away from the pool table) over the xmas period and used the ice, heat, excercises, stretching etc.
I had to go for a wee ride over the hill to check on the farm and it would seem that adv riding does all the things that agravate tennis elbow and it was very hurty :( so I came straight home instead of going for a bit of a play.
Yesterday I had to spend a hard day tying mussel floats on so I dosed up on Neurofen and went to it, thinking that by masking the pain I'd end up paying the price.....but today it seems none the worse for wear, which is a big relief.
So Im thinking that it may have reached the stage where a few drugs and a bit of a workout arent actually causing any further damage.
Anyway, off to physio and accupuncture when I can get an appointment .

[DR650gary]

Try the broom trick, works for me.

Rode my son's SV650 today, about 50 kms, and that stuffs my elbows, wrists and hands.

Cheers

[Night Falcon]

I had physio, 4 corterzone jabs, and 2 opps, on mine all over 2 year period for my builders elbow. Fixed it though. It got so bad I couldn't pick up a cup of coffee. Physio works if you get onto it early enough, I put up with it for too long without getting help, but hey the chicks love a good scar or two :apumpin:

[pete376403]

Tennis elbow, golfer elbow, etc. You should give up these dangerous pasttimes and stick to adv biking (anyone got adv elbow?)

[k14]

Tennis elbow, golfer elbow, etc. You should give up these dangerous pasttimes and stick to adv biking (anyone got adv elbow?)
Yeah it's bizarre, last year I got mild tennis elbow from golf (believe it or not!).

[NordieBoy]

At least you haven't got Bette Davis knees.