Have you experienced Tennis Elbow? It’s annoying and painful and stopped me in my tracks.
On our recent road trip to California, we packed our bowling balls, bikes and tennis racquets, not to mention 2 dogs, luggage, an ice chest, dog food, and my Miche Bag collection! I’m not sure but I think we could have passed for the Beverly Hillbillies.
On a daily basis, I took the dogs for a walk right around 5:45 AM. During the month, I managed to squeeze in 3 bike rides, once in Pacific Palisades and twice in Encino. I had to soak up the California sunshine as much as I could. We got in a little bowling too!
My next trick was to somehow see if I would be able to play tennis. It was MY moment of truth! Would I be able to play with no pain, or was this going to ruin me for LIFE? We stepped onto the tennis court and I nervously began to play! Back and forth, I carefully hit the ball over the net. It felt pretty GOOD! Everything seemed to be OK! We managed to play several more times over the course of a month and no sign of tennis elbow!! Was it really gone? I do believe so. Amazing!
So FINALLY, after 9 months of healing, my tennis elbow VANISHED! I suspect ONE HUGE REASON was that I replaced my mouse with an Expert Mouse Trackball and slowly rehabilitated myself by slowly lifting weights again. I’m sorry to say that Physical Therapy was not helpful in my situation, except for the advice about the Expert Mouse Trackball. I’m THRILLED to be playing tennis once again.
To see the Expert Mouse Trackball, watch the video below!
Are you a computer user suffering from Tennis Elbow? What steps did you take in healing?
Ok…I have tennis elbow in the left arm. I use my right for the mouse and the racket so i am not sure these solutions will work. Any other suggestions…?
Hi Jaelene, thank you so much for commenting! I would say consult with your physician as I can only say what worked successfully for me in my situation.
Hi, you are very lucky, but beware, it might come back.
I used to have tennis and golfers elbow, so badly that I sometimes battled to lift a cup with coffee. (I used to play squash 7 times a week, and sometimes twice a day.) I had cortisone (hope my spelling is correct) injections, which is no picnic, believe me, and no luck. Then someone, another squash player, suggested I get a shock absorber on my racket. Now I was very skeptic as I immediately thought it is not possible. He explained that the vibrating of the strings when you hit the ball actually works on that little tendon in your arm making tennis elbow worsen quickly. I thought I had nothing to lose, so I got the shock absorber at my local sports shop. In about a month my tennis and golfer elbow was gone, until today, more than 8 years later.
Now my wife and myself both play squash, although not as much as I used to, but when ever that little shock absorber comes off the racket for what ever reason, we know immediately, as you are so used to it, we feel the vibration on the racket strings immediately. And my rackets are not cheap either, there should not be vibration, yet there is, you can just not feel it until you have played with that little shock absorber for a while. Try it, play for a few months and then take it off and feel the difference on your racket.
Hope that helps, these days you can buy those shock absorbers at all sport shops, I see they are very popular now, so someone must have realized that they work.
Have a stunning day.
Colin.
Hey Colin! Thanks for the great response. I know what you mean about lifting a cup of ANYTHING, it was horrible. Our tennis racquets have a dampener, which is what I think you are talking about. Unfortunately it WAS attached when this happened to me. Maybe my dampener needs adjusting? I think I just smacked it way too hard and I did feel the vibration go through my arm. I’m not quite so crazy when I play now. You guys sound very athletic, that’s really cool. Good for you! Have a nice evening!
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I love playing tennis, but injuries usually plague me. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve rolled my ankle. I need to work on injury prevention more.
Glad your tennis elbow is gone!
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Thanks!
Hi Stepfanie, thanks for the comment! Now go carefully play tennis! LOL