I was about to point out the same thing, many don't believe me but I learned this at my FFTT umpire courses.
I think there is an issue with the website, but I cannot login to my old profile anymore.
Michael, I am sorry, but if these are both you and both the same person, I am going to have to ban one or the other of the accounts.
- What was your purpose for making a second account?
- Which account would you prefer to stay live?
Okay. Wait. I just saw this.
I originally made an account just with the Facebook login. But on my smartphone, I couldn't login to my regular account, so I made this TensorBackhand account to follow threads on mobile device.
Since it is an odd issue, just use this account going forward. I am sure it will be fine as long as this is now your account.
Der, when are you coming down to LA to play?
I didn't see you at the LA Open and I didn't make it to the US Open.
I did experience mild tennis elbow syndrome a week ago when I played four days back to back with two hours session each day. After not playing for a few days, the problem resolved itself spontaneously without any physio nor medication. I guess it is just your body telling you it need to rest.
I get all sorts of random pains and aches. Icing really helps. Buy some of those gel ice packs from Amazon, they have high specific heat and stays cold very long. You ice the aching parts 15 mins or so at a time throughout the times when you're not playing, then put them back in the freezer afterwards. Also, you should look at your technique, I've developed many aches from poor technique before. Now I have a camera to record my practice sessions I've been correcting a lot of them and the pains and aches have gotten a lot better.
I developed really severe tennis elbow about a year ago - it was so bad that I had to switch to playing with my other hand. I think my biggest mistake was to play through the pain, which really aggravated it. For some people, tennis elbow pain can last many months or even years - even with therapy.
Definitely recommend that you rest your playing hand for several days so that you don't aggravate it. Also, look up videos on YouTube on how to heal -- in short, 1) you should massage the area 2) do wrist extension and wrist flexion stretches 3) applying heat to the area also helps.
I'm not really qualified to answer this accurately, but my physical therapist told me that icing helps in the early hours/days of the injury to reduce pain/inflammation, but applying heat is what speeds up the healing process by increasing blood flow to the injured region.
That's the common way to do it for sure. It's actually not very well studied, surprisingly. I've tried to look up some literature on ice vs heat for tendinitis and there just aren't much high quality data. I guess there isn't enough money in it.
I’ve been suffering with it for a few months but am now back on top of it. I took a 2 week break and iced it lots before starting to strengthen the tendons - the two things helping me a lot were a “flex bar” to offer negative resistance and also a thick rubber band to put round all fingers / thumb to offer resistance vs opening my hand. I have worked up to (and am still doing) 20-30 sets of 15 through each day
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I think the key is re-balancing the tendons in the forearm.
Good luck.
