I hear so many Men and Women on Eroids and my everyday life including myself suffer from forearm pain ,elbow pain known as Tennis Elbow to the point were it affects there work out and there everyday life . Many of us on Eroids develop this from Lifting . Where others develop it from there everyday work and or careers . I did a lot of research and found this great article they may help you better understand your pain and possibly treat it . At the end of the article ill Share my own experience am what worked for me ! Please feel free to comment and share your own thoughts and experiences that will help each other Enjoy the Read !

Tennis Elbow and Golfers Elbow (these are forms of epicondylitis) are very painful injuries that commonly "flare up" over a period of years unless treatment is properly addressed. The most common reason for these injuries is from repetitive motion tasks, and the first thing your physician will tell you is to stop doing whatever it was that caused this problem in the first place. This is a big problem for many patients when you are trying to heal this injury, as it typically means you have to stop working. If this sounds like you, then you know how important it is to heal your elbow injury quickly and make sure it doesn't happen again when you get back to work.

Tennis Elbow is a form of tendinosis that is derived from swelling and tenderness on and around the tendons that attach to the lateral epicondyle (small bony part on the outside of your elbow). These tendons are located in your forearm and are used for extension of your wrist and fingers. Golfers Elbow, on the other hand, affects the tendons in the forearm that are used for flexion of the wrist and fingers (ie. make a fist).

The wear and tear on these tendons is a result of small tears in your tissue that don't heal properly. The overused tendons swell up and cause damage to the tendon sheath. A damaged tendon sheath (known as tendinosis) will leak synovial fluid and cause a lot of pain during movement of the tendon, preventing the tendon from moving smoothly. Severe cases of tendinosis can cause the tendon to stick to the sheath and build up significant scar tissue, immobilizing your joint and causing a lot of pain.

Tendon damage and/or tendinosis damage are quite common in the elbow joint as these tendons are subjected to high levels of tension on a frequent basis. The extensor tendons (used when extending wrist and fingers) and flexor tendons for closing wrist and fingers) are used in thousands of tasks, often handling very high levels of stress. Combined, these 2 sets of tendons handle almost every task imaginable (ie. handshake, typing, driving, using a hammer/racquet/tv remote/phone, golfing) that you might do with your hands, forearms or fingers and partly for such reasons, healing can take a long time. Especially without proper treatment.

If you suspect you may have an elbow injury, the first thing to do is consult your physician; only your physician can give you a proper diagnosis and from this, determine a course of proper treatment. After seeking medical advice, your physician will almost always recommend conservative treatment options - conservative treatment options for tennis elbow typically means rest, ice the injury, elevation the injury and take anti-inflammatory medication. (reference: 1, 2). If your physician has decided that your injury can be treated with conservative treatment options, then you will find that many of our customers have had great success treating themselves with our powerful conservative treatment products - the Freezie Wrap® and the Inferno Wrap®. If surgical intervention is required, talk with your physician about using these same products for post-surgery recovery as you will find them to be effective for reducing post-surgery inflammation, enhancing range of motion and minimizing scar tissue growth.

The Good News: the Body uses Blood to Repair Itself

Before we go further, it is important to understand that your body is capable of healing itself. This is why your physician will always try to opt for the conservative treatment first - usually, it works although it takes time to heal. Your blood flow carries oxygen and much needed nutrients to injured cells in the body while also flushing away toxins and waste at the same time. When you have an elbow injury, however, there is not much blood flow in your injured arm; inflammation and lack of joint movement reduces the flow of blood to the area. Further to this, if you are moving your injured elbow around you run a risk of increasing the severity of the injury. If there has been some healing, you could re-injure your elbow all over again.

Blood Flow - the natural healing process in your body needs assistance for elbow injuries because blood flow is greatly restricted when you are immobile. When treating Tennis Elbow or Golfers Elbow, an effective therapy will increase blood flow to the injury while the joint is immobile. This increase in blood flow will accelerate the body's own ability to heal itself. The Elbow Inferno Wrap® is the most highly effective blood flow stimulation device that you will find on the market.

Re-injury of the Elbow Tendon(s) or Tendon Sheath
Must be Avoided

It goes without saying that anyone suffering from an elbow injury should want to minimize their chance of worsening the injury, or re-injuring it once it has started to get better. Obviously, a worsening injury will delay the healing process, but what's worse is that every re-injury and additional healing cycle increases the amount of time that your joint is immobilized. Time is hard on an immobilized joint - you lose strength in the joint but worse than that, you lose the range of motion in your joint via atrophy (your flexible tendons, muscles and ligaments slowly shrink, decreasing joint elasticity). The more time that goes by with an immobile joint, the more likely you will wind up with a chronic joint problem (long term injury with persistent flare-ups). Basically it means that your joint will not perform as well as it once did and it becomes more prone to injury again later on.

If you have Tennis Elbow or Golfers Elbow, it's very important to heal it quickly and completely. Minimizing the healing time of your elbow should be an obvious goal, as epicondylitis will typically limit your ability to go about your daily routine. "In some cases, severity of tennis elbow symptoms mend without any treatment within six to twenty-four months. However, if tennis elbow is left untreated, it can lead to chronic pain that degrades quality of daily living".

Now my own personal experience I had mine for about 6 months . I had the same mentality as most dedicated lifters on here "just push threw it " but that just makes matters worse and prolongs the healing . What worked for me is cold compress at nights and a technique that I got from a good friend called finger band stretches . You take one rubber band close all your fingers together put the rubber band around them and spread your fingers out then in again do this as many times as you can threw out the day . Also before your workouts do cable pull downs like you would to work out your triceps . Use very light weight to get the blood flowing to those joints and the area after a month and a half of doing this my pain went away its been 4 years since then . Keep your weight low if you chose to work out .but rest is best to risk further damage . But most of use are stubborn when it comes to our goals am something coming in the way of that .

Hope this help many of you out there in the Eroids World ! Stay Safe my brothers and sisters ! Also I like to add I know there is another forum with this topic not stepping on anyone's toes this is a more in dea tail to better understand what it is , how to treat it , and prevent it !