Elbow injury question

RedPill-BlackLotus · 2019-07-23T17:10:48+00:00

You have a small window where you can rest and recover from this kind of injury.

This type of soft tissue damage can really get blown up if you dont rest. It heals way faster if you take some time off.

Dont do this if it hurts, change your range of motion and weight until you can perform the movement pain free. Slowly add a bit of range of motion untill you can expend your arm with no pain.

A slow controlled negative is what they do to rehab this. Grab the double tricep rope and attach it to the cable machine.

Use your good arm to pull the rope down then grab it with your bad arm. Slow and controlled allow the weight to pull your arm back into the biceps flexed position that you would normally extend down to do a triceps extension. It's just one half of the movement, the way back up. Slow and controlled.

Good luck man.

X--Man · 2019-07-23T16:20:29+00:00

Research: Tricep Tendon Injury

Kobinks · 2019-07-23T16:22:40+00:00

Only way to know for sure is to see a professional that specialises in sports injury’s.

Failing that try and diagnose it yourself and do specific physio for that injury.

It’s probably just tendinitis but even that needs rehabilitation work, the worst thing you can do with injury’s is work through them, you can do irreversible damage.

Lifeblows9691 · 2019-07-23T16:39:01+00:00

If is something that came on suddenly, I would rule out tendonitis. That is a mire gradual buildup of discomfort and then pain. You said you did it after increasing the weight. That tells me it is an accute injury. Rest, ice, anti inflammatories. Let it heal. If you are doing sonething and your body tells you it is hurting, then listen. If it is a complete tear you will know. It would be very painful and you would have decreased range of motion.

My quess is that it is a sprain/strain or maybe a small partial tear. I would not do any move that aggravates it, ice/rest/anti inflamatorues. After a couple of weeks slowly and gradually introduce resistance exercises again. Only an MRI will show if there is a tear.

Patience. Weight training is a long game. Dont rush it and further injure yourself.

boy_named_su · 2019-07-24T00:26:12+00:00

I had really bad elbow tendinitis last year. I could still do pec deck and squat. Ran and swam as well. Go to a physiotherapist if you cant get back into LIGHT lifting after a couple/few weeks

Ice, heat, stretch, anti-inflammatories

embracingtheredpill · 2019-07-23T19:19:46+00:00

Reduce weights for a week to what you're comfortable.

Stretch before you lift.

Work in break days to give your muscles time to heal.

Don_Draper27 · 2019-07-23T20:16:29+00:00

Focus on isolation exercises. If your elbow ain’t better in 2 weeks, talk to a doctor.

Title	Elbow injury question
Author	yoursislovesme
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Comments	17
Date	July 23, 2019 4:17 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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