NoCardioBabe
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Hey guys, couldn't find an injury section, so excuse me if I post this in the wrong place.
Also sorry for the wall of text, just trying to be as detailed as possible, and I would really appreciate if someone could help, as this problem frustrates me a ton.
I've read for hours upon hours, and I still can't understand what my problem is.
It all started 2 years ago, when I woke up with an acute pain in my right elbow. I never felt anything bad during my training that could indicate a serious injury but when I woke up the next morning the pain was pretty intense. I went to a physiotherapist and he told me to back off from weight training completely and MAINLY from wrist extension exercises (I assume he diagnosed me with tennis elbow) for a month, and also prescribed me some anti-imflammatory pills/gels. Followed his instructions for 1- 2months, and my elbow got progressively better.
After 4-5 months I started going to the gym again. Fastforward to today, the pain is still not completely gone, I train mainly with high reps and can do most exercises, with no pain.
My problem is that I can't pipoint what my problem is, and how to fix it. At some point I thought I had lateral epicondilitys (tennis elbow) because every gripping exercise hurted my lateral epicondyle, I can't do hammer curls because they kill my elbow, unless I go really high reps 15+.
BUT, if I try to flex my right arm really hard, I feel a tingling, slightly uncomfortable pain in my MEDIAL epicondyle which confuses me a ton. (golfers elbow maybe? Cubital Tunnel Syndrome maybe?)
And as if these weren't enough, I've noticed that my right arm ulnar nerve feels pretty weird too. For example if I try to do the Doorway Subscapularis Stretch , my right arm goes numb/tingles. (again, Cubital Tunnel Syndrome?)
So I really don't know what my problem is, and where to focus in order to fix it. If you asked me what caused my injury, I have 2 possible answers, since I never felt a single pain during training.
1) 1.5 month prior to injuring my elbow, I started doing wrist extension exercises to failure almost daily, because I wanted to beef up my forearms, silly me.
2) Skullcrushers always bothered my elbows, but never backed off, again silly me.
So one of these 2 scenarios or a mix of both cause my elbow pain.
What would you say is my problem, and how should I approach it in order to fix it? Thanks a ton!
Also sorry for the wall of text, just trying to be as detailed as possible, and I would really appreciate if someone could help, as this problem frustrates me a ton.
I've read for hours upon hours, and I still can't understand what my problem is.
It all started 2 years ago, when I woke up with an acute pain in my right elbow. I never felt anything bad during my training that could indicate a serious injury but when I woke up the next morning the pain was pretty intense. I went to a physiotherapist and he told me to back off from weight training completely and MAINLY from wrist extension exercises (I assume he diagnosed me with tennis elbow) for a month, and also prescribed me some anti-imflammatory pills/gels. Followed his instructions for 1- 2months, and my elbow got progressively better.
After 4-5 months I started going to the gym again. Fastforward to today, the pain is still not completely gone, I train mainly with high reps and can do most exercises, with no pain.
My problem is that I can't pipoint what my problem is, and how to fix it. At some point I thought I had lateral epicondilitys (tennis elbow) because every gripping exercise hurted my lateral epicondyle, I can't do hammer curls because they kill my elbow, unless I go really high reps 15+.
BUT, if I try to flex my right arm really hard, I feel a tingling, slightly uncomfortable pain in my MEDIAL epicondyle which confuses me a ton. (golfers elbow maybe? Cubital Tunnel Syndrome maybe?)
And as if these weren't enough, I've noticed that my right arm ulnar nerve feels pretty weird too. For example if I try to do the Doorway Subscapularis Stretch , my right arm goes numb/tingles. (again, Cubital Tunnel Syndrome?)
So I really don't know what my problem is, and where to focus in order to fix it. If you asked me what caused my injury, I have 2 possible answers, since I never felt a single pain during training.
1) 1.5 month prior to injuring my elbow, I started doing wrist extension exercises to failure almost daily, because I wanted to beef up my forearms, silly me.
2) Skullcrushers always bothered my elbows, but never backed off, again silly me.
So one of these 2 scenarios or a mix of both cause my elbow pain.
What would you say is my problem, and how should I approach it in order to fix it? Thanks a ton!
