Prevent Golfer/Tennis Elbow Pain
In work or play, it is expectedly to take on injuries during the cause of playing. The most common problem is feeling pain on joints, limbs and body parts. Some of the injured areas cannot be treated completely by drugs and massage treatment, especially the elbow. Even after so much of rest and receiving treatments, it can recur easily and that is the reason preventive measures must be taken to prevent it from happening from the beginning. In this article, hitns on the prevention of elbow pain will be discussed.
- Make sure you do not over work your elbow, have rest in between each individual work.
- Lift only load that within your limit, ask for help if the load is too bulky. Another good way is to use the help of equipment.
- Do the proper stretching of the arm muscles before carrying heavy load, avoid sudden lifting and dropping of the load.
- Use the proper lifting technique by holding the load closed to your body so as to reduce the tension on the tendon of arm and elbow.
- Perform the basic warm up exercise before your sports especially the muscles and tendons of the arm and elbow joint.
- Do not perform repeated movement of the elbow, it will weaken and wear the tendon of this area.
- Use only the sports equipment that within your ability and capability, for the choice of proper equipment it depends a lot on the height, build and the personal fitness.
- Just like lifting technique, use proper game posture and techniques to ensure the impact on elbow is minimum.
- If you have earlier or minor injury, try to wear the counter balance band (available in all sport shops/outlets). This band is being worn just below the elbow and it will help to distribute the pressure to the whole arm and prevent the impact being concentrating on the elbow. However, be sure to allow proper blood circulation due to over tightening of the band.
It is sure that no one likes to suffer from elbow pain, follow these tips will help to stop or at least minimize the chance of injury. There is also another critical thing to observe is your body warning signal, if pain started and persisted, stop the activities immediately and apply cold dressing to the injured part to prevent the injury from going worst. Have adequate rest and try to find out where has gone wrong, did you stretch your muscles before exercise? repeated movement or over used your elbow? are you very very tire?
For cure of a golfer/tennis elbow pain, a tradition Chinese way of applying pressure on some acupunctural points, without needles, herbal rubs etc will be discussed at the next article. Stay tuned.
In work or play, it is expectedly to take on injuries during the cause of playing. The most common problem is feeling pain on joints, limbs and body parts. Some of the injured areas cannot be treated completely by drugs and massage treatment, especially the elbow. Even after so much of rest and receiving treatments, it can recur easily and that is the reason preventive measures must be taken to prevent it from happening from the beginning. In this article, hitns on the prevention of elbow pain will be discussed.
- Make sure you do not over work your elbow, have rest in between each individual work.
- Lift only load that within your limit, ask for help if the load is too bulky. Another good way is to use the help of equipment.
- Do the proper stretching of the arm muscles before carrying heavy load, avoid sudden lifting and dropping of the load.
- Use the proper lifting technique by holding the load closed to your body so as to reduce the tension on the tendon of arm and elbow.
- Perform the basic warm up exercise before your sports especially the muscles and tendons of the arm and elbow joint.
- Do not perform repeated movement of the elbow, it will weaken and wear the tendon of this area.
- Use only the sports equipment that within your ability and capability, for the choice of proper equipment it depends a lot on the height, build and the personal fitness.
- Just like lifting technique, use proper game posture and techniques to ensure the impact on elbow is minimum.
- If you have earlier or minor injury, try to wear the counter balance band (available in all sport shops/outlets). This band is being worn just below the elbow and it will help to distribute the pressure to the whole arm and prevent the impact being concentrating on the elbow. However, be sure to allow proper blood circulation due to over tightening of the band.
It is sure that no one likes to suffer from elbow pain, follow these tips will help to stop or at least minimize the chance of injury. There is also another critical thing to observe is your body warning signal, if pain started and persisted, stop the activities immediately and apply cold dressing to the injured part to prevent the injury from going worst. Have adequate rest and try to find out where has gone wrong, did you stretch your muscles before exercise? repeated movement or over used your elbow? are you very very tire?
For cure of a golfer/tennis elbow pain, a tradition Chinese way of applying pressure on some acupunctural points, without needles, herbal rubs etc will be discussed at the next article. Stay tuned.
