How do you cure tennis elbow?

[Riprorin]

I hurt my elbow doing reverse curls. My elbow's sore to the touch and certain movements are really painful.

Other than icing it and avoiding painful activities, what else can I do?

Is this going to be a chronic condition?

 

[xcript]

Smash it with a hammer.

 

[JC]

Go to the drug store and get one of those bands, you wrap it around your forearm just below the elbow and tighten it up. Really stops the pain.

 

[Kaieye]

Stop playing tennis for a few weeks...

 

[Riprorin]

I don't play tennis!

 

[LordJezo]

You don't cure it.

It gets worse and worse the more you use a computer and the older you get.

Just face the facts.. this is a start of a long painful relationship that will last you until death.

 

[JosephSaint]

ahhhh

 

[Riprorin]

Originally posted by: LordJezo
You don't cure it.

It gets worse and worse the more you use a computer and the older you get.

Just face the facts.. this is a start of a long painful relationship that will last you until death.

You're just saying that to cheer me up, aren't you?

 

[LordJezo]

Telling you the truth!

Just have to face the facts, thats all.. arthritis dosen't go away, just gets worse.

 

[Howard]

Chop off your arm.

 

[AgentBehemoth]

Cortizone injection, make sure they numb the area first.

 

[acidvoodoo]

i had tennis elbow very mildly, but it wouldn't go away for a long time, so i had a cortizone injection. it still hasn't recovered completly so i may go back another one in a different spot or something

 

[Bryophyte]

Tennis elbow isn't osteo arthritis, LJ.

Anyway, what can help is rest, ice at first, heat later, anti-inflammatories (like ibuprofen, aspirin, naproxen sodium), exercises after it heals to strengthen the muscles supporting the joint.

It isn't necessarily going to be a chronic condition if you've never had it before and it's obviously due to an injury. It might, might not. If it becomes a longer term problem, a doctor can give you specific exercises to do to help strengthen the arm, may give you prescription anti-inflammatories, and possibly cortisone injections.

 

[gistech1978]

when i got it, i actually got it from tennis
i just toughed it out.

 

[dnuggett]

Short term cure:

Run full speed and slam your head into the wall. You will forget all about your elbow. At least for a little while.