Weird muscle cramp?

[fbrdphreak]

Chalk this one up as weird. I've noticed a few times lately that if I'm on my cell phone for more than a few minutes, when I extend my arm again it's like something was really really tense in my arm muscle - it feels very tight and as I extend my arm it stretches, somewhat painfully. It almost feels like where the bicep starts in the crook of your arm.

Now one thing could be that I'm un-knowingly really clenching while on the phone. But could this be some kind of mineral/vitamin deficiency? I do exercise & lift weights, including biceps, but I haven't lifted in a few days & my biceps are not sore in the first place.

Weird.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The only thing I can think of is cubital tunnel syndrome aka cell phone elbow, but where you feel it seem to be off. Still, couldn't hurt to get a bluetooth headset or even use a wired one. As the old story goes- "I told my doc it hurts when I do this, he said don't do that anymore"

 

[Safeway]

I had the same feeling about a year ago, and it persisted for 6+ months. Turns out that it was tendinitis. I am now taking some basic anti-inflammatory drugs, and it doesn't bother me. I had to stop playing disc golf, though.

My arm would hurt any time I would 'squeeze' my forearm to my bicep. Much like the position of holding a phone to your ear. That position allows your tendons to be unstressed. When you extend your arm again, you pull on the tender tendons and it hurts.

Did you over-extend your elbow? Tennis? Disc golf? Preacher curls?

 

[wheresmybacon]

I have this too. If I'm doing dumbell curls and twist the weight at the top of the movement I get a shooting pain starting near my wrist down my forearm into the crook of my elbow. I've had varying degrees of carpal tunnel or tendinitis or something in that arm/wrist/elbow/fingers on and off for years. For a while my pinky and ring fingers would go numb if it was really bad.

I haven't gone to the doc for it since doing lightweight warmup sets seem to help it, but it never fully heals if I'm training. It gets better if I stop training, but almost every lift I do uses whatever muscle/tendon group so that's not an option.

It'd be nice if it would get better but right now it's not painful enough for me to stop doing what hurts it.

/shrug

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: hungfarover
I have this too. If I'm doing dumbell curls and twist the weight at the top of the movement I get a shooting pain starting near my wrist down my forearm into the crook of my elbow. I've had varying degrees of carpal tunnel or tendinitis or something in that arm/wrist/elbow/fingers on and off for years. For a while my pinky and ring fingers would go numb if it was really bad.

I haven't gone to the doc for it since doing lightweight warmup sets seem to help it, but it never fully heals if I'm training. It gets better if I stop training, but almost every lift I do uses whatever muscle/tendon group so that's not an option.

It'd be nice if it would get better but right now it's not painful enough for me to stop doing what hurts it.

/shrug

Next time you go to the doctor for a general checkup, you may wanna mention it to him/her just in case. Better to be safe than sorry, you know?