Best Brace/Treatment for Tennis Elbow?

[AntiThumperian]

I got pretty bad tennis elbow. Any one know of a proven method to fix it? There are a lot of wacky looking braces on amazon and I dont know which are gonna be useful

 

[Mythos]

Dude I tried so many braces and wraps for my golfer's elbow and I swear that all they did was make it worse. I was trying to work with layer after layer of compression and it got worse and worse to the point where my grip was severely weakened and an almost useless arm.

What finally helped was voodoo flossing it a couple times a day and otherwise leaving it alone. After reading a lot of papers I found out that tendons don't have a lot of blood vessels and the body responds to injury by actually forming new temporary ones in the tendon while it's healing. I figure that a lot of compression might just be messing with blood flow there which is what a tendon injury needs a lot of. Just my 2c..some people have luck with the braces that have like a knob that adds extra compression to that area but I never did.

 

[Steamboat]

BPC 157 and TB 500. Best treatment

 

[pigeonhed]

The answer everyone hates is first.
1. Rest
2. Aleve or your Ibuprofen of choice.
3. Ice. As much as you can handle. 15 minutes at a time.

These 3 things will give you the fastest relief. Then you can try to analyze which lifts are causing this. Then figure out where the motion is off, which wraps or braces may help you.

Picking a proper brace while injured is hard. Braces remove mobility which can create stress in other areas.

 

[Test_subject]

Rest and Voodoo Floss.

If it hurts, don’t do it.

 

[Jonjon]

I’m not kidding. Pick up a similar product at local feed store. Seems to Help speed up the healing process and definitely helps pain

 

[AntiThumperian]

Thanks all. I'll try some of these and watch videos on proper form before starting up again. im guessing my form is off somewhere. I think its most effected when I do pullups. ive got one of those that fits in your doorway. i think its the culprit

 

[Test_subject]

Thanks all. I'll try some of these and watch videos on proper form before starting up again. im guessing my form is off somewhere. I think its most effected when I do pullups. ive got one of those that fits in your doorway. i think its the culprit

Try neutral grip if your bar has the option. I find it easier on the old elbows.

 

[AntiThumperian]

Try neutral grip if your bar has the option. I find it easier on the old elbows.

strange. that's the grip that seems to be responsible

 

[Test_subject]

strange. that's the grip that seems to be responsible

In that case disregard lol.

Everyone has different joint structure. You just have to find what works for you.

 

[AntiThumperian]

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I’m not kidding. Pick up a similar product at local feed store. Seems to Help speed up the healing process and definitely helps pain

but i have no hooves

 

[BigBaldBeardGuy]

Thanks all. I'll try some of these and watch videos on proper form before starting up again. im guessing my form is off somewhere. I think its most effected when I do pullups. ive got one of those that fits in your doorway. i think its the culprit

Preacher curls will do it if you don’t lock your wrists. Especially a narrow grip on the bar.

Any tricep exercise other than narrow bench. Pulldowns do it, scullcrushers do it, even the useless kickbacks. They all put a lot of tension on that tendon.

 

[Test_subject]

even the useless kickbacks.

You take that back right now!!!

 

[Jonjon]

Could of fooled me