Tendonitis

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okenemem

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1,353 posts

193 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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Tendonitis in the forearm from pullups/chin-ups, any advice on how to clear it up ,home remedies etc

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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None. Sorry....

I had this last year from a fluffed golf shot - the only remedy seemed to be total rest for the effected muscles. My doctor said either an injection (which I didn't fancy) or rest.

It's a real bugger and I wish I could say something more encouraging.

I did buy one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000KGIBQO/ref...

Which helped. I am not sure if this will be any good for your particular injury.

okenemem

Original Poster:

1,353 posts

193 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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was your injutry in the wrist , and how long was your rest period for

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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It was in my forearm.

About 6 months I'm sorry to report. Every time I tried to use it, the injury flared up.... you might be different of course.

gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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I am prone to tennis elbow.

It flared up in both elbows earlier this year/end of last year

My pain was dying down after about 24 hours.

Stop doing anything that aggravates it but I’d keep doing what ever you can - knocking off volume and intensity as required.

The flexbar and Tyler twists are good but didn’t do loads for me when both elbows were bad.

Stretching and foam rolling really, really helped me. If you have tightness in a muscle getting rid of that could make all the difference.

I’m on my phone so don’t have many links but Steven Low has an excellent resource for tendinitis - http://stevenlow.org/overcoming-tendonitis/

james_gt3rs

4,816 posts

190 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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Have you tried wearing one of these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ionocore%C2%AE-Elbow-Supp...

gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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I don’t wear one of those but I do wear compression sleeves on both arms now. I doubt it makes so much difference now it’s warmed up but made a noticeable difference in the cold.

NDA

21,488 posts

224 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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james_gt3rs said:
Have you tried wearing one of these?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ionocore%C2%AE-Elbow-Supp...
That's a good call.

I helped me a few years ago - but strangely not on my most recent injury.

okenemem

Original Poster:

1,353 posts

193 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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this is a lot more complex than I first thought,
thanks everyone

Geoff Stilwell

679 posts

174 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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Try a sports physio or Osteopathic treatment. Always works for me.

gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Monday 14th May 2018
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okenemem said:
this is a lot more complex than I first thought,
thanks everyone
It’s not too bad but there’s no quick fix. Main thing seems to be not aggravating it but doing enough to stimulate repair.

RTB

8,273 posts

257 months

Tuesday 15th May 2018
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okenemem said:
this is a lot more complex than I first thought,
thanks everyone
From previous experience with tendonitis (albeit my quadricep tendon) the only way to get rid of it is to rest the injury (don't do exercises that make it flare up) and do some light stretching on a regular basis. I got mine from doing squats when I first started doing 5x5 a few years ago. I took about 3 months off squatting and spent the time I would have been squatting stretching instead. I've never had any issues since.

smashy

3,030 posts

157 months

Friday 25th May 2018
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Look up shock wave therapy ......it worked on my 2 year achilles tendon injury which refused to heal ,,rest .osteopothy .physio etc did nothing found a physio who did this and totally cured both sides , you need 3 treatments a week apart then up to 12 weeks for it to work and its not cheap but if anything will work this is it