![]() ![]() See, the thing about these two elbow injuries is that they’re less about what your elbows are doing, and more about what your fingers, hands, wrists and forearms are doing along with the tendons that run through them and attach at your elbows. It’s just an unnatural position for your wrists and forearms to be in, and most people find that they feel just slightly uncomfortable whenever they do it. You know, just like you’d grab it if you were doing biceps curls. And this amount of “suck” is MUCH more pronounced when you’re grabbing that straight bar with an underhand grip. In what will become a very noticeable trend throughout this article, the straight bar just tends to suck for a lot of exercises for a lot of people. Don’t Do Biceps Curls With A Straight BarĪs I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, if you asked me to make a list of the exercises most likely to eventually cause medial epicondylitis/golfer’s elbow (which again is pain on the inner side of the elbow), straight bar biceps curls would probably be #1 on my list (chin-ups would be a close second, more on those in a minute). Here now are 17 tips for doing just that… 1. Today however I want to focus more on preventing these injuries from ever happening in the first place, or just preventing them from becoming worse if you already have them. And fixing.Ī super comprehensive article about fixing these injuries and explaining in detail exactly what they are (and aren’t), exactly what causes them, the important difference between tendonitis and tendonosis (note those last 4 letters… this difference is why 99% of the information you’ll find/receive about these injuries is completely wrong and useless), and exactly what I did to successfully fix it myself is all definitely on my to-do list. Having said that, these two appear to be the most common, which means they are the ones you are most likely to be dealing with right now or the ones you’ll be most likely to develop in the future and would be wise to try to prevent from this point on.Īnd as it turns out, they are the two I know the most about preventing. The only way to know for sure is to have your injury properly diagnosed in person by someone truly qualified to do so. So if that area tends to hurt most as a result of chest and triceps exercises like various forms of triceps extensions and chest pressing exercises… there’s a good chance this is your problem.Īgain, there are other elbow injuries out there that may cause similar symptoms and similar pain in a similar area. Lateral Epicondylitis: Also known as Tennis Elbow, this injury affects the extensor tendons that attach at the lateral epicondyle (which is the small bony bump on the outside of your elbow… see photo) and causes pain most often on the outer side of your elbow and/or forearm.So if that area tends to hurt most as a result of back and biceps exercises like curls and pull-ups/chin-ups/lat pull-downs… there’s a good chance this is your problem. Medial Epicondylitis: Also known as Golfer’s Elbow, this injury affects the flexor tendons that attach at the medial epicondyle (which is the small bony bump on the inside of your elbow… see photo) and causes pain most often on the inner side of your elbow and/or forearm.In my experience, these tend to be (by far) the two most common types of elbow injuries among people doing any form of weight lifting on a regular basis. What I do know quite a bit about is the specific elbow injury I’ve personally dealt with and the identical (but in reverse) version of that same problem. There are a bunch of different injuries that are capable of causing elbow pain, and I’d be lying if I told you I knew tons about every single one of them. Hooray! Now it’s time to share what I’ve learned. The good news however is that it has currently been about 2 full years since I last had any elbow pain whatsoever. This is something I’ve written about before: 8 Ways To Avoid Common Shoulder Injuriesīut then eventually, while my shoulders finally stayed perfect and awesome and wonderful, my elbows decided to become my new pain-in-the-ass body part. What I am is a regular person just like you who has been weight lifting since I was about 16 (I’m 31, you do the math) and has, at various points during those years, dealt with a handful of annoying injuries.Įarly on it was exclusively issues with one or both of my shoulders. Whenever I write about injuries, I always like to remind everyone that I am not a doctor nor am I any kind of physical therapist, injury specialist or anything similar.
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