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I ended up having surgery for mine a few years back. Lucked out and had one of the greatest orthopedic surgeons. It's almost like new now. Sometimes gets a little stiff and I have to stretch it. But the acute and chronic pain is completely gone and it feels like it's brand new. I have full range of motion, can lift weights and do everything like I could before I got tennis elbow.
Curious, what did the surgeon fix? Was your tendon ruptured/torn? I haven't heard of surgical repair for tendonitis before.
I get tennis elbow a few times per year. I do the exercises and put pressure in the places they say to put pressure, but ultimately it seems like nothing shaves time off of it- I just have to wait for it to go away. It's nice knowing that nothing is "broken", even though it's painful, so I don't change my routine even when I'm experiencing it.
I play a fair bit of tennis- 4-6 hours of singles per week (3-4 days, matches are 1-1.5 hours long), and find that the only time I get tennis elbow is when I play an unusually long match against unusually hard hitters, like 2-3 hour matches. I don't do those very often though.
So I gave a few folks here a good tip for fixing golfer's elbow, which is that dull pain inside the elbow. Recently, I've developed tennis elbow, which is pain to the outside (tip) of my elbow.
Logically, since the slow negative bicep curls fixed the inner elbow pain, I thought maybe doing slow negatives with triceps only (pulling down on a pulley with both hands and slowly letting it back up with the injured arm) would help and I didn't get much relief.
Seeing if anyone has any good tips/tricks to help with this pain.
It's more commonly wrist exercises that help with tennis elbow.
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For tennis elbow and also for a shoulder impingement I found two treatments that helped greatly with the pain:
1. Salonpas patches, 1 or two will relieve the pain for as long as 8 hours
2. Voltaren gel - rub in up to 4 times a day
Both have a strong aroma, but that dissipates soon. They are basically the same as aspirin but in a form that doesn't go through your bloodstream like aspirin, Aleve or Tylenol. Voltaren is expensive, but Costco has a pack of 3 tubes for $38.99. Salonpas are cheaper at about $10 for 60 patches at Amazon.
I got the TheraBand FlexBar from Amazon, a little foam rubber stick you use for various rotational exercises. Worked like a charm for me 10 years ago and never had to use it since then.
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