My elbow's are killing me!!!!

[bigmag]

I've recently started to get alot of pain in my elbow's particularly around the bicep and tricep tendonds. I've tried taking chonroitin sulfate and glucosamine but neither have helped. The pain mainly comes when I train tri's but also when I do bench (which involes tri's). I've decided to take two weeks off from training my arms and just do legs and cardio to let me elbow's heel. Does anybody have any advice that I could use to help rehebilitate my elbow? If so, please let me know!!!

Only the strong survive!!!

[archive_Killer]

You sound as if your pain is far enough long that you are doing what ya need to do - rest. Sucks, but it is true.

Where exactly is the pain? Is it on the side of the elbow, above the rear of the elbow? Can you palpate the pain? Is there pain on elbow flexion (curl) and elbow extension (such as normal tri pressdown). Pain on wrist curl (flexion) or extension?

[bigmag]

The pain is mainly between the braicialis and the elbow ulna (around the funny bone nerve) and gives me the most pain when I do exercises that involve alot of triceps (elbow extension). There is also pain between the brachialis and the biceps tendon but it's not substantial.

Only the strong survive!!!

[South of the border]

Just drop all the direct tricep exercises. They are most probably responsible for the elbow problem. These exercises are also useless as your triceps get all the work they need to grow on the should and chest exercise.


Good luck.

[bigmag]

As I said in the first post...I get alot of the pain in my tri's when I do bench. Besides, I'm trying to figure out what I can do to rehabilitate it (if there is anything).

Only the strong survive!!!

[archive_Killer]

It sounds like you are describing tricep's tendionitis. As South of Border said, lay of the tri exercises, or at least those that hurt. You can sometimes get away with an exercise if the pain goes away when you get warmed up. but if it hurts before, after warm-up, during, and after, then drop it. Try experimenting with different grips, arcs of movement, and angle of bench.

Have you recently greatly increased weight or volume? Sometime this can piss it off. There is no clicking or anything, correct?

Of course, ice after all elbow activity. Some may say to be careful when icing the elbow cuz it is possible to freeze the median nerve (or is that ulnar nerve? hmmm), but after having people ice with and without some padding on the nerve, I have never seen a difference.

I had tri tendionitis for about 3 months last year. With some careful exercise selection and icing, it resolved itself without rest

[bigmag]

The pain originaly came when I was doing bench one day with some pretty heavy weight....I think it was about 450lb. I heard a pop on the way down and it started hurting like hell. I gave it a couple days rest and ever since then it hurts every time I do any tricep movements, although it doesn't pop. I'm in the middle of my two week lay off so I will let you know how it works out. Thanks for the help!!!

Only the strong survive!!!

[archive_Killer]

Hearing or feeling a "pop" is no good. It sound's as if you had a single acute episode incident, not a chronic injury, so some things change. You probally either injured a tendon or ligament, but most likley a tendon. The tendon is disrupted, but to what degree? I would go see an orhtopod to get it checked out. Doesn't sound like you have a complete rupture, you would def know that, but even a small tear or fraying can cause alot of pain.

After the initial injury, was there brusing surrounding the area? Was the area swollen? I know you said where the pain was, but can you touch (palpate) the pain just sitting there?

[bigmag]

There was no bruising but there was alot of swelling. I can locate the pain when I'm just sitting here if that's what you mean by palpate, but it only hurts when I strain my triceps to a certain degree. I also work as a bouncer and I had to break up a fight last weekend and my elbow began to hurt really bad again with alot of swelling, so I took the rest of the night off. Other than that I haven't worked my arms what so ever in the past week and a half.

Only the strong survive!!!

[archive_Killer]

So, you def do not have an overuse injury, but an acute one. An acute muscle muscle/tendon injury will have a lot of brusing due to the disrupted blood supply. A ligament or tendon/bone injury will usually display the sewlling you described. (Of course, these are not fast rules).