Tendonitis..does it ever go away...

[whiteknight]

I've had tendonitis on my right elbow for over 2 years now... It is slightly better than it use to be ( originaly I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee)

I have done exercises, massage, chiropractor, active release... you name it...

My left arm can still curl better than my right .. when it use to be the other way around. I am right handed.. I put pressure on certain areas near the right elbow and feel a stinging pain...

My question... does it go away , ever?? or is it somehting that is here to stay and just needs to be managed... and does getting older make it more difficult to recoup???

Concentration curls ... forget it...to this day , I can only do really low weights with the right arm

lateral dumbell raise... again pain and very low weights only

Opinions and experiences welcome...

[MikeMoore]

I've had tendonitis on my right elbow for over 2 years now... It is slightly better than it use to be ( originaly I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee)

I have done exercises, massage, chiropractor, active release... you name it...

My left arm can still curl better than my right .. when it use to be the other way around. I am right handed.. I put pressure on certain areas near the right elbow and feel a stinging pain...

My question... does it go away , ever?? or is it somehting that is here to stay and just needs to be managed... and does getting older make it more difficult to recoup???

Concentration curls ... forget it...to this day , I can only do really low weights with the right arm

lateral dumbell raise... again pain and very low weights only

Opinions and experiences welcome...

It can go away, but it can easily reoccur. Sometimes there is one exercise that will aggravate it. If you can find what it is then try to work around it can help. Though this isn't always the case. I suffer from some bad tendonitis in my biceps and triceps. I found that its from doing straight bar squats, then benching will make it worse. So I have to use a buffalo bar when I squat until right before meet time and then I use Inzer elbow sleeves and tighten them like mad and that usually helps.

The best thing for tendonitis is of course ART, but you have to keep going to get it on a regular basis and even with my insurance it just gets too expensive. Ice has really helped ALOT. But not just putting an ice pack on it. Actually rubbing the ice on the area in clockwise counter, clockwise circles. This site sells a good ice massager to help like I just explained :

Ice-Up Portable Massager by Pro-Tec (http://www.icewraps.net/ice-up-portable-massager-pro-tec.html)

Also, alot of people swear by Voltaren cream or pills for tendonitis.

Not sure if I helped at all.

[Ulter]

Mine went away. It took several month of not putting any pressure on it so it would heal. For me that meant taking out preacher curls. I used a tri-bar to do curls and that didn't aggravate it. So I suggest you find another angle to do the curls from for 4 or 5 months and then slowly go back.
The cause of it is you curling more weight than your muscle can handle. That's when the weight is shifted to the joint and connective tissue.

[getjacked]

i have tendonitis in my bicep tendon attachment (basically the elbow except opposite side), and it blows. i have had it for at least 1 year now. any type of benching kills it on the descent portion of the lift. curling kills it but im not sure how i got it, i dont really curl much, maybe from heavy rowing..

no help at all, but if you find anything let me know

[Meau]

Personally, I don't think it every really goes away. It might get better when not using it, but as soon as you start to use it again...there it is.

I remember pain in my elbow 10 years ago. When I stopped working out for a few years, it was fine. As soon as I started again, there it was.

With bicep curls, I start with just 10 pounds and work up from there to make sure I am good and warmed up. But still...by the time I get to 40 pounds I have to stop rotating my wrist and just lift the weight with a natural "thumbs up" position. Anything else will cause so much pain in my elbow that I wont get it past 90 degrees of lift.

[East Coast Lifter]

4 or 5 months and then slowly go back.

The painful truth with most of these injuries, they require a lot of time to heal and then some are never the same.

[sassy69]

It never really seems to go away. I've got forearm tendonitis that I had PT for back in the late 90s. It flares up /goes away / flares up / goes away. Same w/ most of my other stuff too. It is good to have a variety of exercises that you can switch off to if one aggravates an area that has started up w/ the tendonitis. In the short term, ice & stay off it.

[bigdamray]

Mine flares up everytime I start squatting and benching heavy. I deal with it for every contest that I do. Voltaran helped the most as far as drugs.

[SFork]

I've worked behind a computer for almost 12 years now. My wrist is just now showing signs of wear and tear from the mouse. Last week I could not open/twist a door handle. I still have my brace on and its getting better. It was so bad that my girl friend thought I busted it, but had no memories of hitting it or it being smashed. It happened at the worst time, first week of my PCT, I can not lift with that hand. I also tore my shoulder out the week before that. I can't even hold the bar on my back to do squats due to the angle of the shoulder. No pull movements, no press movements, i'm screwed. I'm going back to triathlons untill I heal, back to being a skinny ecto~ (FUGG)

[dronga]

I do bicep rehab work, just DB hammer curls across the front of my chest, usually between 50-70lbs for 3-4 sets of 10 reps. its funny, first my left bicep was really affected, now it has moved to my right one. Its gotten allot better since I started doing these curls.

[sassy69]

I've worked behind a computer for almost 12 years now. My wrist is just now showing signs of wear and tear from the mouse. Last week I could not open/twist a door handle. I still have my brace on and its getting better. It was so bad that my girl friend thought I busted it, but had no memories of hitting it or it being smashed. It happened at the worst time, first week of my PCT, I can not lift with that hand. I also tore my shoulder out the week before that. I can't even hold the bar on my back to do squats due to the angle of the shoulder. No pull movements, no press movements, i'm screwed. I'm going back to triathlons untill I heal, back to being a skinny ecto~ (FUGG)

In 24 years of working on computers, the only time I experienced actual "carpel tunnel" issues was when I was doing a lot of software design work, using the standard mouse to do lots of diagramming & flowchart work. Obviously the "hold down the right button & drag the mouse" motion puts a huge amount of stress on the wrist joint. At the same time I was lifting and it all propogated to bad times for my wrists. I did a lot of icing, ibuprofen, stopped curling for a while. Since then I have occassional issues w/ weak wrists when I curl, but I've had no issues w/ the computer. However I do not use a mouse - I've exclusively used the little joystick on the keyboard. This is probably going to be an issue in the future because you have to look hard to find laptops that still use that method of mousing.

[way2skinny]

After 2 years of misery, Adequan was what finally cured my tendonitis. It's been completely gone for about a year. Flared up only once after I did something stupid, arm wrestling a teenager twice my size. Fortunately I had one bottle of Adequan left and it did the trick again.

[Nate]

look into sub-max eccentrics

[IliekFude]

rest ice n ibprofen does it for me. but it still pops up now n then.
i get it in my cuffs / pec tie ins, elbows, right wrist, both knees n i think thats it.