Chronic tennis elbow

[spokewench]

For the last couple months I've been plagued by tennis elbow (tendonitis?) in both arms. I have no idea what I've done to cause this. Any ideas? And even more importantly, any suggestions as to what I can do to fix the problem, short of not using my hands and arms for several weeks?

Jean

THe issue of what you have done to create elbow tendonitis is a big question. What activities, and regular day to day things do you do? Many things can cause elbow tendonitis. Does it hurt on the inside of the elbow or the outside?

The only cure that I know of, that really works, is rest and ice. You can do cross tissue massage and stretching i.e. bend your wrist up and down slowly to stretch the tendon area. All tedonitis issues are hard to get rid of because the blood flow to the area is just not all that good. Anything that will increase that circulation helps the healing process.

[Hi Ho Silver]

THe issue of what you have done to create elbow tendonitis is a big question. What activities, and regular day to day things do you do? Many things can cause elbow tendonitis. Does it hurt on the inside of the elbow or the outside?

The only cure that I know of, that really works, is rest and ice. You can do cross tissue massage and stretching i.e. bend your wrist up and down slowly to stretch the tendon area. All tedonitis issues are hard to get rid of because the blood flow to the area is just not all that good. Anything that will increase that circulation helps the healing process.

The only possible cause I can think of is that I moved into a new place a couple months ago and had to haul lots of heavy boxes around. Outside of that, I haven't done unusually strenuous of late.