Treating Golfer's elbow with KT tape?

marc5 · Joined: 21 Oct 2015 Posts: 60 Location: SW Ohio

Another vote for the Thera-Band Flexbar. I had tendinitis for months. Ordered both medium and heavy Flexbars. In a few days I was cured. It's all about eccentric exercise. Works the same with achilles issues.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

I fought tendon -itis's and -opathies for several decades. The best solutions I found were adjusting my harness line locations and length PRECISELY, changing my arm and grip angles to shift stresses to healthier tissues, and learning how to do everything but jibing while hooked into a roller bar. Those steps did and still do more for my tendons than a long line of doctors and PTs and long rests were able to accomplish, and I can still shred (I guess that's what one calls constant maneuvering at full power) in high winds and rough water for eight hours in a day in my early 70s.

Be aware that ice and/or ibuprofen pretty much stop the healing process for at least months, sometimes permanently. They're for masking pain, not curing the problem.

Mike \m/

AndreiA · Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 73

Surprisingly no one in this forum mentioned using Kinesio tape to heal tennis or golfer's elbow. Something like that: https://youtu.be/O9lg2YcwApU
Guess I'll be the first to try and report the results Smile

boardsurfr · Joined: 23 Aug 2001 Posts: 1266

alap · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 156

Thera Band cured me. I think the move is Taylor manoeuvre (?)
injury was bugging me for several months, cured in a week or so

it also helped few years down the row after thumb surgery.
Meduim - green, money well spent.

outhaul · Joined: 27 Sep 2011 Posts: 254

pjs · Joined: 06 Jul 1999 Posts: 59

I get pretty severe golfers elbow. Pretty much the only thing that really helps are Reverse Tyler Twists with the Theraband Flexbar. I've been having a flare up for the past 3 months; and working with the Flexbar really helps keep the pain down.

It's also a good idea to sleep in a Pil-O-Splint elbow brace. I use one with the plastic batten removed and the inside kind of doubled up. A lot of people (me included) sleep with kind of preying mantis arms, all tightly folded up, which gets you eight hours every night of further irritates your arm.

The first time it happened to me it was so severe I couldn't even open a door with my bad arm. But about four months in, with no significant change in how much it hurt, I fractured my hand. By the time I'd finished the couple of hand surgeries and months of splinting and hand therapy, my elbow was magically healed. Although, I don't recommend this method.

Pretty much every time I've had a serious tendon injury (2 torn biceps tendons, medial epicondylitis) it was when I was taking daily anti-inflammatories for some other injury. Now I try to avoid taking any anti-inflammatories, or at least limit them to occasional use.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

Thanks for the Theraband Flexbar tip! Jamie Dreyer's video is enlightening and encouraging; it's bookmarked and ready for my next "forearmitis" flareup.