tennis elbow and golf elbow

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My husband had a bad tennis elbow (right elbow) last year. He did not stop playing tennis but went for osteopathy and changed from a one handed backhand to a two handed backhand. Within four months his tennis elbow was cured.

He liked the two handed backhand so much that he is still playing with two hands. The problem is: he has developed a golf elbow (left elbow) since then. Not really bad by now, so he can continue playing tennis.

My question is: has anyone experience with a golf elbow and how to cure it?

And are there special stretching exercises he should do before/after playing tennis?

Thanks for any help.

 

[larry10s]

go to the health and fitness section and do search
there are millionn posts
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/forumdisplay.php?f=18

 

[dozu]

find a very soft racket, strung with very soft gut at low 50's tension, make the racket as heavy as he feels comfortable with, and get rid of the habit of muscling the ball with the forearm.

 

[joe sch]

find a very soft racket, strung with very soft gut at low 50's tension, make the racket as heavy as he feels comfortable with, and get rid of the habit of muscling the ball with the forearm.

Right on advice.
They do not make very flexible modern rackets so your best bet is to get an old school graphite or play wood until all the arm problem vanish. Worked for me.

See this for racket RDC flex ratings:

www.woodtennis.com/rdc.txt "dinos stats"

 

[danno123]

I've recently got over golfer's elbow. In my case, it was brought on by abruptly starting tennis. I went from playing no tennis to playing 3-4 times a week. Frankly, my wimpy office worker forearms simply weren't up to the task.

I've done a lot of strengthening exercises and the golfer's elbow went away. A lot of folks swear by the theraband flexbar and there are many threads on using it to cure golfer's elbow. I would have bought a flexbar but my gym has a wrist roller machine that accomplishes the same thing.

For me, I think what worked was taking a month off hitting serves and forehands (which were what was hurting my elbow) and regularly using the wrist roller machine at my gym, emphasizing the negative (eccentric) portion of the exercise. I also have a dumbell with a 2.5 pound weight on one end of the bar and I exercise my forearm by grabbing the unweighted side of the bar and lift/lower the weight by slowly pronating/supinating my wrist.

Even when I started hitting serves and forehands again, I would limit them and it still took me about 3 months to get over my golfer's elbow. Tendons are slow to heal and you can only heal if your rate of healing exceeds your rate of injury. In other words, your husband should probably cut back on the activity that is hurting the tendon while he does some rehab/conditioning.

 

[Totai]

My husband had a bad tennis elbow (right elbow) last year. He did not stop playing tennis but went for osteopathy and changed from a one handed backhand to a two handed backhand. Within four months his tennis elbow was cured.

He liked the two handed backhand so much that he is still playing with two hands. The problem is: he has developed a golf elbow (left elbow) since then. Not really bad by now, so he can continue playing tennis.

My question is: has anyone experience with a golf elbow and how to cure it?

And are there special stretching exercises he should do before/after playing tennis?

Thanks for any help.

Take 400mg of ibeuprofin 3 times a day for 3 days. Ice the affected area for 15 minuntes 5-6 times a day for 3 days.

 

[larry10s]

heres alink to thread on golfers elbow in the health and fitness section
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=355711&highlight=golfer

 

[yellowoctopus]

Based on personal experience with golfer's elbow, my advice for your husband is for him to focus on prevention, which usually compose of two parts, strengthen and mechanics.

Strengthening of the muscle can be accomplished by stretching and series of exercises, which you can find by searching for golfer's elbow on the internet. Not much room to go wrong with most of the advice out there.

Mechanics: Probably the more important of the two parts of the preventive effort. I suggest that your husband find a teaching pro to work with to establish a stroke mechanic that works better for him. One cannot assume that his current stroke is incorrect, but it can certainly be customized to lessen the strain put on his medial epicondyle, the muscle group that is the primary focus of golfer's elbow.