Hey guys,
Let me first say that this board is awesome. Everything is here. anyway...
About six weeks ago I ended my two year break from tennis when HS practice started, so I played about 3 hours a day. In retrospect, probably was not the best idea to go from playing not at all to alot everyday.
Anyway after a couple weeks of practicing, I started to get really bad aches in my bicep just above my elbow. It was so bad it would wake me up some nights and left me so weak when I playerd i could not even take a full swing. The pain was worse right when I would come off the court.
I just started playing with a Tecnifibre Tfight 315 at the beginning and thought possibly this could be part of the problem since it is a heavier racquet and I'm not a huge strong guy. So used a couple of other racquets, notably Bab aeropro drive. This seemed to help a little but it was hard to tell.
So after a couple of weeks, I ended up getting an MRI which showed that, there was some kind of inflammation, the kind that is an early, early sign of a stress fracture. Yet this is in my arm!? I figured it was just a strain. I have never heard of a stress fracture in tennis. How normal is this?
Luckily, I am okay to play but very very cautiously. I was skeptical of the pain being caused from my technique just because I have had lots of instruction and have developed full strokes but I am going to have my strokes checked out this week. I have also dropped the tension in my racquet all the way down to 55 and switched to a softer string too, seems to help but again, its hard to tell it could be in my head.
Could it be the heavier racquet too? Or the starting to play so much tennis? Combination? But how normal are stress fractures in tennis? Because I feel like something is seriously wrong with me and my strokes.
Thanks
Let me first say that this board is awesome. Everything is here. anyway...
About six weeks ago I ended my two year break from tennis when HS practice started, so I played about 3 hours a day. In retrospect, probably was not the best idea to go from playing not at all to alot everyday.
Anyway after a couple weeks of practicing, I started to get really bad aches in my bicep just above my elbow. It was so bad it would wake me up some nights and left me so weak when I playerd i could not even take a full swing. The pain was worse right when I would come off the court.
I just started playing with a Tecnifibre Tfight 315 at the beginning and thought possibly this could be part of the problem since it is a heavier racquet and I'm not a huge strong guy. So used a couple of other racquets, notably Bab aeropro drive. This seemed to help a little but it was hard to tell.
So after a couple of weeks, I ended up getting an MRI which showed that, there was some kind of inflammation, the kind that is an early, early sign of a stress fracture. Yet this is in my arm!? I figured it was just a strain. I have never heard of a stress fracture in tennis. How normal is this?
Luckily, I am okay to play but very very cautiously. I was skeptical of the pain being caused from my technique just because I have had lots of instruction and have developed full strokes but I am going to have my strokes checked out this week. I have also dropped the tension in my racquet all the way down to 55 and switched to a softer string too, seems to help but again, its hard to tell it could be in my head.
Could it be the heavier racquet too? Or the starting to play so much tennis? Combination? But how normal are stress fractures in tennis? Because I feel like something is seriously wrong with me and my strokes.
Thanks
