Adventure riding with tennis elbow

**Taz** · 2nd January 2012, 10:44

Originally Posted by Cary

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

Faggot! .

**Bams** · 2nd January 2012, 21:30

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** · 3rd January 2012, 08:12

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/pat...and-golf-elbow

Cheers

**Shadowjack** · 3rd January 2012, 10:49

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** · 4th January 2012, 10:15

thanks for all the helpful advice people

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** · 4th January 2012, 12:14

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** · 4th January 2012, 12:40

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