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Elbow injury while benching
- Thread starter JKD
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Sorry but I have to disagree. Ice and motrin will definatly help with the pain, but anti-inflamatories and ice reduce swelling and blood flow. If your elbow is injured, how will reducing blood flow to the injury actually help the body heal? The answer is it wont, it will simply mask the pain and circumvent healing. I recommend heat and taking it easy on the elbow, dont do anything that causes excessive pain, but still exercise since it causes an increas in blood flow and promotes healing. Please dont confuse lack of pain with healing.gilly6993 said:
Metal Gear
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anytime I get tendenitis from benching I go and ice it right away after everyday workout and it goes away in a week. It works for me, I don't know about heating?
sauerbrauten
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I feel sory for you but rotator cuff liek im experiencing now is worse than elbow.
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For the average joe these kinds of injuries heal themselves in 4-6 weeks or so, largely due to the fact they are not active and the tendon/ligament gets plenty of time to heal. For avid lifters however we do not like dealing with the pain during a workout and hence take anti-inflamatories and use ice. If the injury is minor it will still heal, but if the injury is not minor the pain will return frequently. Using anti-inflamatories/ice hinders healing, but reduces or eliminates pain and gives the illusion of it being healed. If it is truely healed you should not suffer any pain anytime soon, unless reinjured. If the pain continues, for example, every chest day, then you can be sure that your ice and anti-inflamatories did not heal anything, because if they did the pain would not return so soon.JKD said:
For us lifters we are continually subjection our connective tissue to serious loads and this builds some serious tendon strength, but if one little injury occurs and we dont allow it to heal we set ourselves up for chronic pain and most will treat it with ice/anti-inflamatories and a viscious cycle will develop where you hinder healing via meds/ice -> lift and further irritate area -> more pain due to irritation -> and the cycle starts over. The problem with this method is that sooner or later it will catch up to you and doing a lift that while done healthy would only cause strain can now actually severely damage or even completey tear the tendon/ligiment.
JKD, the choice is yours of course, but I you have my advice. If you take it easy and avoid anti-inflamatories (take tylenol if you have to for pain) and ice and deal with the pain for a while you will likely be ahead of the game and it will heal on its own. If it continues to get worse there are things you can do to force it to heal. I myself after having pain for 6+ weeks will assume that it wont heal without me really easing off the weights, which is something I wont do so I have it treated. The treatment is done every 4-5 weeks and I miss a couple days in the gym but aside from that it simply feels better everyday until pain is gone.
sauerbrauten
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Zygo do you mean prolotherapy when you refer to treatment...i just made an appointment for that.
ZYG - thanks for your detailed response. I actually stopped taking anti-inflamatories when you advise me about my back. Still haven't been to a prolotherapist - haven't found one around me and I don't think my insurance will cover it. I am switching insurance at the end of this month and I think the new insurance covers it - hopefully.
Unfortunatly insurance usually only covers the consultation and not the actual treatments. I wouldnt let that detere you however because if you do you likely may never be healed and things could get progressivly worse until you find yourself under the knife (which ironically is covered) and once that happens many people are never the same. Most prolo docs will at least work with you to try and get it pushed through insurance. People have actually sued and won cases against their insurance companies where they argued prolo was not only effective but necessary. Its a pretty sad day when insurance wont pay $1000 for a few prolo treatments that are simple and safe, yet they will pay $5000 for surgery and all the associated MRI's, xrays, meds etc......one more reason our country is becomming a big joke.JKD said:
sauerbrauten
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Zyg my appointment is december 10t..liek i wrote in my thread i have one of the best docors available here, Dr.Hauser in the Chicago area. The downside is i do not have health insurance for now i need to get some in the future... thsi is the first available appointment date..so.....but this might be a good thing if my injury goes away be4 then then i saved some money if it doesent then ......btw the cost per rotator cuff treatment is 150$
