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Not even certain this is what Ive got. let me start with my hand and then I'll explain why or not it might be relevant to the now bad elbow. . A number of rounds back I actually hurt my hand and wrist while swinging from a very awkward crazy stance in a bunker. Honestly bothered my hand/wrist on and off for some time. I have occasionally had that happen in the past but not to any significant degree as this one time.

So ff a few rounds ago and Im beginning to feel elbow pain. Not all that much while I swing but while I do other things like grab stuff and/or simply move my arm and hand in a certain way. So this past week-ish seems to be getting worse. After my last round Sunday I was just fine during golf. But the elbow really hurt fairly significantly afterwards.

Now a couple days later and things that require me to clamp my fingers together causes pain at the elbow. Things like picking up heavier garbage bag and trying to raise it above the pail to then place it in the pail (which I just did like ten mins ago) hurts the darn elbow and upper forearm. Or perhaps trying to pull something apart I just cant squeeze onto anything with force and pull or lift with force without some significant enough pain

Don't know if something I did to the hand (as mentioned early) injury wise was causing me to then favor other muscles and tendons I don't know of that's the reason but I think ive git tennis elbow. I wasn't sure and honestly would need to visit a doc and find out whats going on for certain. But all the symptoms seem to line up except for one.

That one being that my elbow doesn't hurt at the largest elbow bone/part. But it hurst at the smaller boney knob instead. Its the part where as if you were to grab/cover your elbow with the hand from the other arm and do that from the outside. basically lay your good arm across your chest and lay that hand over the other arm entire elbow. Now bring that hand back a bit towards your chest and that's the smaller boney part outside part of the elbow. that's where the pain is. But the pain (as this has worsened) is also in the upper forearm area now. It seems to be tennis elbow and Im hoping I can still golf and is why Im posting to talk with any fellow victims of this or any doc that may know if I even have it (or something else).

last thing I want right now is no golf for most the rest of summer as its only just began..lol
 
rollin said:
Not even certain this is what Ive got. let me start with my hand and then I'll explain why or not it might be relevant to the now bad elbow. . A number of rounds back I actually hurt my hand and wrist while swinging from a very awkward crazy stance in a bunker. Honestly bothered my hand/wrist on and off for some time. I have occasionally had that happen in the past but not to any significant degree as this one time.

So ff a few rounds ago and Im beginning to feel elbow pain. Not all that much while I swing but while I do other things like grab stuff and/or simply move my arm and hand in a certain way. So this past week-ish seems to be getting worse. After my last round Sunday I was just fine during golf. But the elbow really hurt fairly significantly afterwards.

Now a couple days later and things that require me to clamp my fingers together causes pain at the elbow. Things like picking up heavier garbage bag and trying to raise it above the pail to then place it in the pail (which I just did like ten mins ago) hurts the darn elbow and upper forearm. Or perhaps trying to pull something apart I just cant squeeze onto anything with force and pull or lift with force without some significant enough pain

Don't know if something I did to the hand (as mentioned early) injury wise was causing me to then favor other muscles and tendons I don't know of that's the reason but I think ive git tennis elbow. I wasn't sure and honestly would need to visit a doc and find out whats going on for certain. But all the symptoms seem to line up except for one.

That one being that my elbow doesn't hurt at the largest elbow bone/part. But it hurst at the smaller boney knob instead. Its the part where as if you were to grab/cover your elbow with the hand from the other arm and do that from the outside. basically lay your good arm across your chest and lay that hand over the other arm entire elbow. Now bring that hand back a bit towards your chest and that's the smaller boney part outside part of the elbow. that's where the pain is. But the pain (as this has worsened) is also in the upper forearm area now. It seems to be tennis elbow and Im hoping I can still golf and is why Im posting to talk with any fellow victims of this or any doc that may know if I even have it (or something else).

last thing I want right now is no golf for most the rest of summer as its only just began..lol
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Yep that’s tennis elbow. I’ve had it for months. Outside the elbow pain is tennis while inside elbow is golfer’s but you can get either one from golf. I have an elbow brace, compression sleeve and KT tape. Today was the first round I didn’t take Advil before the round or have on one of the above.

For me, I’m not in a lot of pain when I’m playing, but holding a beer with my left arm straight kills me.

There are exercises you can do to strengthen the forearm which helps and could make it go away altogether. I was prescribed something similar to an oral cortasteroid, but the side effects are pretty scary so I’m holding off until/unless I’m in extreme pain.

Rest is usually all it takes. I didn’t pick up a club for a few days while I was on vacation and it went away for the most part. Went to the range yesterday and it’s back. I plan to play through it and rest it during the winter.

For you, try icing it since it’s relatively new and do some exercises. Odds are it’ll go away eventually.
 
Philly Golf Guy said:
Yep that’s tennis elbow. I’ve had it for months. Outside the elbow pain is tennis while inside elbow is golfer’s but you can get either one from golf. I have an elbow brace, compression sleeve and KT tape. Today was the first round I didn’t take Advil before the round or have on one of the above.

For me, I’m not in a lot of pain when I’m playing, but holding a beer with my left arm straight kills me.

There are exercises you can do to strengthen the forearm which helps and could make it go away altogether. I was prescribed something similar to an oral cortasteroid, but the side effects are pretty scary so I’m holding off until/unless I’m in extreme pain.

Rest is usually all it takes. I didn’t pick up a club for a few days while I was on vacation and it went away for the most part. Went to the range yesterday and it’s back. I plan to play through it and rest it during the winter.

For you, try icing it since it’s relatively new and do some exercises. Odds are it’ll go away eventually.
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Thanks. Honestly im needing to hit the range to practice my swing changes via lessons and also have more lesson time pre paid coming to get even more but I just don't want to push this by hitting the range so much or at all. Thanks for the advice.
 
I had tennis elbow last year. Not sure if golf caused it or if i did it weightlifting, but it did hurt when I swung a club. I got some relief from wearing a compression sleeve, but I continued to stress it lifting and playing golf.It finally just disappeared on it's own, but it took a good 6 months. Gone completely now, and no issues at all.
 
Go to your chiropractor.

Seriously.
 
Smallville said:
Go to your chiropractor.

Seriously.
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This for sure^^^^^^^^^
The other thing would be to wear a compression sleeve while playing. I do both, chiropractor and compassion sleeve.
 
I’ve had the same thing and it sucks. It will eventually go away but will probably bother you the whole golf season.
 
rollin said:
Why a chiropractor?
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I suffered through it leading to and throughout the 2012 Morgan Cup (about three months total). Came home and was planning on taking a month off to let it heal, but I had to go in to my guy for my back and mentioned my elbow to him and he said he wished I had come in after it hurt for a couple weeks because he could have saved me months of hurt. He popped it and I have not had any pain in it since. It was almost immediate relief.


I still took a full month off anyway, just to be safe.
 
Yep, just got rid of my tennis elbow several weeks ago. The doctor fitted me with a special elbow brace which I wore for 3 weeks and now my tennis elbow is gone. While I had the tennis elbow I would take an Advil pill before a round of golf and that really helped until I got rid of it.
 
Does anyone feel the pain in their forearm as well? Occasionally I'll feel a pulling sensation in my elbow, but mostly the pain is upper forearm - close to the elbow. I'm assuming this is more tendinitis than the tennis elbow....but maybe they're related. Mine really started after I went back to steel shafts from the graphite. I ice it almost every night, but at this point I'm assuming just resting it and taking a couple weeks away from golf, might be the only way. It just sucks because I have some big outings coming up that i'd sure be nice to play well for.
 
I had it long ago but remember the pain being unbearable. I heard that hitting off of matts can cause it.
 
badolds said:
I had it long ago but remember the pain being unbearable. I heard that hitting off of matts can cause it.
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So does hitting right into the side of the bunker trying to get the ball out. That's exactly what caused mine.
 
Make the switch back to graphite!!!! There are tendons and ligaments involved with the elbow so could be some of both causing the pain on the forearm.

Nappy said:
Does anyone feel the pain in their forearm as well? Occasionally I'll feel a pulling sensation in my elbow, but mostly the pain is upper forearm - close to the elbow. I'm assuming this is more tendinitis than the tennis elbow....but maybe they're related. Mine really started after I went back to steel shafts from the graphite. I ice it almost every night, but at this point I'm assuming just resting it and taking a couple weeks away from golf, might be the only way. It just sucks because I have some big outings coming up that i'd sure be nice to play well for.
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Nappy said:
Does anyone feel the pain in their forearm as well? Occasionally I'll feel a pulling sensation in my elbow, but mostly the pain is upper forearm - close to the elbow. I'm assuming this is more tendinitis than the tennis elbow....but maybe they're related. Mine really started after I went back to steel shafts from the graphite. I ice it almost every night, but at this point I'm assuming just resting it and taking a couple weeks away from golf, might be the only way. It just sucks because I have some big outings coming up that i'd sure be nice to play well for.
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Ice, rest, massage, Aleve, rinse, wash, repeat.

But yes, you can get it where it extends down your forearm.
 
Nappy said:
Does anyone feel the pain in their forearm as well? Occasionally I'll feel a pulling sensation in my elbow, but mostly the pain is upper forearm - close to the elbow. I'm assuming this is more tendinitis than the tennis elbow....but maybe they're related. Mine really started after I went back to steel shafts from the graphite. I ice it almost every night, but at this point I'm assuming just resting it and taking a couple weeks away from golf, might be the only way. It just sucks because I have some big outings coming up that i'd sure be nice to play well for.
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my pain began only at the elbow. But since has progressed downward some degree and at that same time is when I also have pain while grabbing/squeezing something with my firngers/hand.
 
I had it for months (I tore up y elbow chopping firewood in early 2016). This brace helped a lot! Pain finally went away & so far this season I haven't needed to wear anything.
 
Tennis elbow is the top and golfers elbow is the bottom of the elbow. I have it in both elbows along with a slight tear in the ligament in my right elbow. I wear 2 straps on my right arm and link them together with a piece of velcro so the lower strap doesn't slide. On bad swings there is an ouch factor.
For the most part I grin and bare it. The last few weeks I have been doing a lot of painting and spackling on my current job. It kills my right elbow to where I drive home with the ice pack from my lunch box on it. I also double strap my right arm when working.
I switched to graphite a few years ago because of it and also have the Winn Dritac over sized on certain clubs and mid sized on others. Makes a great difference in letting me golf.
 
Nappy said:
Does anyone feel the pain in their forearm as well? Occasionally I'll feel a pulling sensation in my elbow, but mostly the pain is upper forearm - close to the elbow. I'm assuming this is more tendinitis than the tennis elbow....but maybe they're related. Mine really started after I went back to steel shafts from the graphite. I ice it almost every night, but at this point I'm assuming just resting it and taking a couple weeks away from golf, might be the only way. It just sucks because I have some big outings coming up that i'd sure be nice to play well for.
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not every case is the same of course but my tennis elbow, which after some time exacerbating it with some intense racquetball, did start rolling down into the forearm. When I finally broke down and went, the doctor actually recommended a wrist brace, said what was actually pulled was there but it was radiating up into the elbow. At first I wore the elbow compression then added that and after I added that it became much more tolerable and went away.

When it came back a year or so later I just went with the wrist brace and it took little time.

Not saying that is what either of you have but it is worth going to the doctor to see what they say.
 
A few years ago I was diagnosed with golfer's/tennis elbow. I did everything the doc said to do. Wear this brace, take this medication, do these stretches, wear this elbow pad, go though weeks of rehab and nothing helped for just over a year. I finally got smart and got a second opinion. Less than 5 minutes with the elbow specialist and he says, you don't have tendinitis, you have a torn ligament. We can fix that with the Tommy John surgery. That doc studied under Dr. Jobe who invented the surgery, so he knew what he was doing. He fixed me up a couple of weeks later and I was good as new ! I wish I wouldn't have waited a whole year to get that 2nd opinion.
 
Yes. I have had elbow tendinitis. I have rehabbed it. I have rehabbed it in others. The WORST thing you can do is nothing.
 
Yes, you have to stretch and strengthen the tendons that are torn and causing pain, using ice and meds won't do that, the Flexbar just works because that's what it does, it solves the problem.
 
I've had success rehabbing elbow pain caused from golf by doing lots of pull ups and chin ups. It is painful, but it works. I also take NSAIDs to deal with the pain.
Switching to graphite shafts has helped avoid pain for me this season.
 
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