Chronic tennis elbow

[KnottedYet]

OMG, this so works !!! After suffering from chronic tennis elbow for 3 months, I had developed an egg size swelling on my front elbow area. Went to the Sports Doc who ordered an ultrasound + cortisone shot. Wasn't too keen on this, cancelled and came across this thread. Did this exercise and after 12 hours the swelling had gone down and the pain significantly reduced. Day two, swelling almost gone and it is nearly 85% better. This really works!! Thanks heaps KnottedYet, I am extremely happy and relieved!!

Excellent! Good work!

Keep at it 15 times (or more) every 2 hours (or more often) until you can look back and say "Hey, I haven't had any symptoms for a full week!"

At that point, the wayward troublemakers are probably settled permanently into their proper orientation, and you can stop.

It is probably a good idea to continue doing the elbow thing twice a day for a few weeks at that point anyway, just in case. Just to keep it neat and tidy. But you can quit then if you really want to.

And, if the elbow problem ever hints at starting up again, you know exactly what to do. So fix it immediately!

You are your own best therapist.

[SueJT]

Excellent! Good work!

Keep at it 15 times (or more) every 2 hours (or more often) until you can look back and say "Hey, I haven't had any symptoms for a full week!"

At that point, the wayward troublemakers are probably settled permanently into their proper orientation, and you can stop.

It is probably a good idea to continue doing the elbow thing twice a day for a few weeks at that point anyway, just in case. Just to keep it neat and tidy. But you can quit then if you really want to.

And, if the elbow problem ever hints at starting up again, you know exactly what to do. So fix it immediately!

You are your own best therapist.

Injury update: I have now been doing the KnottedYet technique for 4 days now, and the swelling and pain have just about gone! Time Trialled yesterday, got a PB and best of all no elbow pain! I am continuing to do this technique 2 hourly, extremely surprised and impressed that my injury has responded so quick, after months of pain not relieved by general stretching as prescribed by PT. I am training hard for our Aussie National Masters champs in 4 weeks, and was becoming very worried that my sore, swollen elbow would affect my performance - not anymore! Thanks again KnottedYet!

[KnottedYet]

It's actually a Southern Hemisphere technique: from Robin McKenzie of New Zealand.
www.mckenziemdt.org

[KathiCville]

When this thread was posted a month ago, I eagerly read every word. I've had a long-standing case of tennis elbow (from keyboarding) that nothing seemed to fix. So I jumped on a couple of bits of advice in the discussion. One was to read the NYT article that Oakleaf mentioned: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...-tennis-elbow/. The other was to get my hands on one of Robin McKenzie's books about resolving neck and back pain.

A month later, wow, what a difference!! The Flexbar mentioned in the NYT article has made more of a dent in my elbow pain than anything I've tried in 10 years! I do three or four sets of the "Tyler Twist" every day (plus a couple of the other Flexbar exercises) and my pain has diminished by about by 90 percent so far! For the first time in ages I can turn a doorknob or open a jar without pain. Wooohooo! I'm better enough that I've added a simple weight-lifting exercise to strengthen my wrist, which is also helping, I think.

And the neck and back exercises recommended by McKenzie (via KnottedYet) have made a big difference in stiffness and pain in those two areas too! Combined with doing a bit of yoga and Pilates, I'm feeling fewer aches and pains than I have in a very long time.

Long story short, I highly recommend the Flexbar exercises to anybody who is plagued by tennis elbow. And the simple exercises developed by Robin McKenzie are well worth a few minutes a day too...especially if your work or play involves sitting for long periods.

So, thank you, Oakleaf and KnottedYet for the advice you gave Hi Ho Silver! This TE'er is grateful!!