Anybody had surgery for Tennis Elbow?

anabolicscuba · Apr 11, 2012

I have had tennis elbow on and off for over a year now. I've tried NSAIDs, stretches, massages, and nothing really seems to help long term anyway. Deca did seem to help but I don't want to stay on that forever. I'm not at the point of surgery yet as I still want to give it time and take at easy but I'm still interested to hear from people that have had the surgery. Are you glad you did it? Any negatives you've noticed by doing it?

saps · Apr 11, 2012

Have you tried the healing peptides?

milkhouse · Apr 11, 2012

anabolicscuba said:
I have had tennis elbow on and off for over a year now. I've tried NSAIDs, stretches, massages, and nothing really seems to help long term anyway. Deca did seem to help but I don't want to stay on that forever. I'm not at the point of surgery yet as I still want to give it time and take at easy but I'm still interested to hear from people that have had the surgery. Are you glad you did it? Any negatives you've noticed by doing it?

Cortisone shot bro. They key to that is though you literally need to rest it for a,month or better after the shot or it will come back.

anabolicscuba · Apr 12, 2012

saps said:
Have you tried the healing peptides?

No, I have not. Which ones do you recommend?

saps · Apr 12, 2012

anabolicscuba said:
No, I have not. Which ones do you recommend?

tb500 cruise over to the peptide forum there are tons of logs. I used it with success myself. Its not a miracle cure all but it made most of my injuries a lot better

mitochondria · Apr 12, 2012

surgery wont help its purley your activites or the way your lifting like straighr bar bench

Bobby Biceps · Apr 12, 2012

I had tennis elbow a few years ago, I thought I would just train through. It got worse of course, to the point where I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee. I went to a physical therapist who treats several baseball players. He asked me in detail about my training program, split, volume. He told me it was a result of over training, advised me to back off on my training a little, modify my split so I had a day's rest in between the days I train upper body. Then he showed me a few exercises, one is just extremely light (5lb) reverse wrist extensions for a couple sets of hundred reps, then squeeze a tennis ball for a couple sets of a hundred and the third was to get some thick rubber bands and put them on your finger tips to give resistance while you open your hand for a couple sets of a hundred. In about a month, my tennis elbow was gone.

CDJack · Apr 12, 2012

Tennis elbow is really tendinosis, not tendinitis, except in the initial acute phase. If you've had it a long time, I STRONGLY suggest doing PRP and possibly stem cells (even better) directly into the injured tendon. Where do you live?

anabolicscuba · Apr 13, 2012

CDJack said:
Tennis elbow is really tendinosis, not tendinitis, except in the initial acute phase. If you've had it a long time, I STRONGLY suggest doing PRP and possibly stem cells (even better) directly into the injured tendon. Where do you live?

What is PRP? I live in the US.

j4ever · Apr 13, 2012

anabolicscuba said:
I have had tennis elbow on and off for over a year now. I've tried NSAIDs, stretches, massages, and nothing really seems to help long term anyway. Deca did seem to help but I don't want to stay on that forever. I'm not at the point of surgery yet as I still want to give it time and take at easy but I'm still interested to hear from people that have had the surgery. Are you glad you did it? Any negatives you've noticed by doing it?

i see that you have tried massage but have you been to an ART practitioner?

profah · Apr 13, 2012

Massage and rest. Mine got pretty bad years ago. Rest was the best remedy for me.

NZRABBIT · Apr 13, 2012

I've never met a tennis elbow I couldn't get back to full function within 4 treatments. Very often 100% within one. Seek a good active release practitioner preferably with strong hands.

CDJack · Apr 13, 2012

anabolicscuba said:
What is PRP? I live in the US.

Look it up. Uses your own healing mechanisms to treat injuries that have failed to heal on their own. Do not get cortisone for tennis elbow, it will not fix it and it will come back. Where in the US?

Styles · Apr 14, 2012

Medial Epicondilitis is what I had for about 12 years.Did injections,physical therapy,ultra sound,stim,prp,art and plenty of rest.Nothing helped except surgery.Doc said she was looking for 70% improvement and it ended up being 100%.I have had zero pain since the surgery in 07.I wish I didnt wait so long.I couldnt workout my right arm 100% until 3 months later but I still worked everything else.So in my case I am very happy with my decision because I got to the point where I couldnt hold a bottle of water.Hope yours gets better.
Styles

downsouth · Apr 14, 2012

I have had the surgery and its now about 95 percent pain free. I am 46 and tried the pt , supplements and had 5 injections. I think some are alot worse than others and are beyond the " natural healing " process. It is a simple surgery , they just clean up the bone and let it heal. I was working out with arm in 2 weeks after surgery. ( light). I had it done on a Friday and went back to work on a monday with a bandaid on my right elbow. I have known 2 people who have tried the stem cell and both had bad pain after injections and the protocol is mutiple tiimes. If you ask me , get it fixed.

anabolicscuba · Aug 13, 2013

Downsouth - does the surgery effect the overall strength of the tendon in the long run?

Ashop · Aug 13, 2013

anabolicscuba said:
I have had tennis elbow on and off for over a year now. I've tried NSAIDs, stretches, massages, and nothing really seems to help long term anyway. Deca did seem to help but I don't want to stay on that forever. I'm not at the point of surgery yet as I still want to give it time and take at easy but I'm still interested to hear from people that have had the surgery. Are you glad you did it? Any negatives you've noticed by doing it?

What will the surgery do? Kill some nerves?

MustEatMore · Aug 13, 2013

I had it recently from work, hammering all the time. I just bought a brace off amazon called an aircast. I would just wear it most of the day everyday, and I would just not do any exercises that would aggravate it. also while i was driving to work in the morning i would do stretches and exercises that i found on youtube. I took a good two months, but ive been good to go since. I should also note i was on hgh at the time.

cal · Aug 13, 2013

Bobby Biceps said:
I had tennis elbow a few years ago, I thought I would just train through. It got worse of course, to the point where I couldn't even hold a cup of coffee. I went to a physical therapist who treats several baseball players. He asked me in detail about my training program, split, volume. He told me it was a result of over training, advised me to back off on my training a little, modify my split so I had a day's rest in between the days I train upper body. Then he showed me a few exercises, one is just extremely light (5lb) reverse wrist extensions for a couple sets of hundred reps, then squeeze a tennis ball for a couple sets of a hundred and the third was to get some thick rubber bands and put them on your finger tips to give resistance while you open your hand for a couple sets of a hundred. In about a month, my tennis elbow was gone.

Thanks for that tip. How often did you do this little routine...did you continue to maintain it?

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cal · Aug 13, 2013

Just started using something called armaid. Helps target trigger points...

Pretty pricey but after just one session notice a big difference. Lot less pain

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