Forearm pain and curls

[strongsmartsexy]

Ok, I woke up this morning with a pain in my left forearm that would barely allow me to straighted it or move my wrist. I spent most of the day pressing on the inside top of the forearm to cause the muscle to actually relax and not kill me to move it. By the time I could go to the gym, I could do everything but curls without it killing my forearm. I dropped my normal weight by a third to get through curls.

Does anyone know what the hell happened or how to make it go away quicker if it ever happens again? It was almost like a day long charlie horse in the forearm.

 

[Devastation]

what have you done strenous in the last 2 days?

 

[strangebrew]

What were you doing the night before? Er..nevermind...I think I can guess.

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

I would say chill on the curls for a little. Have you been going hard on them recently? And did it hurt to grip things hard?

 

[RADAR]

Had them, hate them they are a bitch to get rid of ,when you turn your wrist does it hurt also?

RADAR

 

[InTraining]

I had something similar recently and did some extremely light hammer curls with slow negatives to get some blood in the area and speed up healing...

2 days later back to normal...

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Had them, hate them they are a bitch to get rid of ,when you turn your wrist does it hurt also?

RADAR

Yes, EXACTLY!

I did nothing the night before to strain it. I just woke up with it.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

I would say chill on the curls for a little. Have you been going hard on them recently? And did it hurt to grip things hard?

I haven't done anything hard with them that I know of. Just my normal routine. Thursday was a day off from training, so I didn't do anything that day. I just woke up with it Friday morning.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

what have you done strenous in the last 2 days?

No, just my normal routine. I did Legs on Wed, the only time my forearms were involved were for SDLs, and those went off without a hitch. I was only doing 295lbs on them, so it's not like I was straining them hard.

 

[BileStew]

Sounds like you may have tennis elbow.

Stick your arm straight out, palm facing the ground. Press your middle and index finger downward with your other hand while trying to raise your fingers up for resistance. If you feel a pain in your forearm, you have tennis elbow.

Good luck and stop whacking it so hard to pictures of Marion Ross.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Sounds like you may have tennis elbow.

Stick your arm straight out, palm facing the ground. Press your middle and index finger downward with your other hand while trying to raise your fingers up for resistance. If you feel a pain in your forearm, you have tennis elbow.

Good luck and stop whacking it so hard to pictures of Marion Ross.

Nope, no pain that way. Which is a good thing. This seems to have gone away slowly over the day and with light curls and some light forearm work last night, I don't seem to be having any difficulties so far today. I"ll take it easy on it this weekend and see how it behaves with back movements on Monday.

Oh, and it's not Marion Ross, it's Aunt B.

 

[BileStew]

Oh, and it's not Marion Ross, it's Aunt B.

Aunt Bea?

And I wonder how many people know who Marion Ross actually is without Googling.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Aunt Bea?

And I wonder how many people know who Marion Ross actually is without Googling.

Yes, Opie, Aunt B(ea)

Only those who aren't older than dirt like you and I.

 

[BileStew]

Yes, Opie, Aunt B(ea)

Only those who aren't older than dirt like you and I.

Dude, I'm potting soil compared to you.

 

[strongsmartsexy]

Dude, I'm potting soil compared to you.

 

[danielson]

have you tried to straighten your arm out? when you do feel on the forearm....can you feel crepitations (they are like the shudder or rubbing you get from a stiff door being opened that only goes a bit at a time and makes the whole door reverberate or whe your pulling something out of a tube and it starts sticking and makes the tube start to reverbaerate

Obviously i cant be sure as I dont see our arm infront of me and im not a doctor or anything, so you should see one.

but I suspect you might have tenosynovitis. this is where the synovium of the tendon inflames and restricts the motion of the arm. course i could be wrong and you have dupetyrons contracture (i've been lazy and its been a while since i read about this so dont trust me!) there was always somthing else other than tenosynovitis that i kept mixing it up with and i always forget its name. cant remeber if its dupetyrons contracture but either way if it persists get that shit checked out! you tried anything like an NSAID?

 

[BileStew]

Danielson...

I've found the root of SSS's problem.

He's old and his warranty is expiring soon. First it's the tendons, then the mind.

 

[danielson]

Danielson...

I've found the root of SSS's problem.

He's old and his warranty is expiring soon. First it's the tendons, then the mind.

lol...i would joke but a bout of training like i used to at my peak after almost half a year off left me with a much milder equivalent ( already gone away)

why can;t I be 18 again...shit i didnt even have to warm up then

 

[Buddy_Christ]

i've had similar pain in my elbows and forearms.

the solution - stop doing BB curls.

didn't matter if i was using an EZ curl bar or a straight BB.

i've completely dropped BB curls from my routine. i stick to incline and db preacher curl.

i just took some time off of doing curls and anything that caused the pain to reoccur. took about 2 weeks til it went away, but i had been irritating it and kept it up for over a month.

be careful though...2 weeks w/out curls and you're not a "real" man in most gyms