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| Felicity |
Posted - 10/31/2006 : 08:25:13
Has anyone beat tennis and golfers elbow. Have this in both elbows since using loose weights. Had some warning that something was not right but it was only a little stiffness so I just carried on and ended up with full blown lateral and medial tendon injuries on both arms. That was in June and by the end of July things were improving then in August flared everything up by attempting a weight bearing arm exercise and since then have not been able to settle things down at all. All advice is to rest and if you do not then awful consequences can occur with long term tendon problems. I have been doing as little as possible for nearly 3 months now but very little improvement. My husband thinks this is the return of TMS (I had this for 5 years, read Sarno, did the work and was pain free for 6 months before this injury. That's one of the reasons why I was in the gym I had 6 months of feeling great was making the most of it). The reason he thinks this is TMS is that I cannot focus on anything except my arm pain. My head is always monitoring my arms and the amount of pain each task causes. I agree with him in that my mental response to the injury is very indicative of my old TMS however, am so scared to push through the pain for fear of more damage to the tendons. Have been told this kind of injury can take up to two years to clear and at the very least I must expect a year of pain as tendons are slow to heal. Anyone any experience of this and any advice?
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| redskater |
Posted - 11/01/2006 : 09:32:05
I got it from doing a stretch for my back, it only affected one elbow which I thought was odd. Once I got rid of the back pain it took the elbow awhile to completely go away. But once I realized it was just TMS I went back to playing golf and it hurt for awhile but I kept at the golf and now it is completely gone. So that leeds me to believe it was just the TMS. I did not rest it once I knew. I think that would have just prolonged it. If I had really damaged it, golf would have made it worse but it went away. I do believe that when it is tms you have to confront it and not let it affect your life. I got rid of tailbone pain the same way. Even with all the journaling, which I still do after 1 1/2 hrs. to keep things from buliding up again, you still have to work through the pain and not try to rest it. Just what worked for me.
It will go away!
Gaye |
| Jim D. |
Posted - 11/01/2006 : 07:54:21
I had one of those almost-instantaneous cures of my back pain after reading one of Dr. Sarno's books, but tennis elbow was another matter. I too lift weights and experienced elbow pain. I did all the usual--wore a cloth brace, refrained from all arm activity, put my arm in a sling, took anti-inflammatories. It is a devious form of TMS because the link between using the arm and elbow pain seems so obvious, and it took me a long time to have the courage to go ahead and lift weights in spite of the pain. What helped was noticing that the pain sometimes occurred when I had not been "abusing" my elbow and also times when I used it and no pain happened. And the major step occurred when the pain switched from one elbow to the other, for no ostensible reason.
I have no "this is how you do it" advice, just perseverance and courage to put up with some pain for a while. And, of course, doing the usual TMS "work." In my case, I concluded that because I wanted very much to work out and was prevented from doing so by the elbow pain, my brain was sabotaging my workouts and contributing to continuing self-esteem issues.
Good luck with this. It probably won't be easy, but keep at it. I did arm curls this morning with no more pain than you are supposed to have lifting weight, so it can be done. Dr. Sopher, by the way, has a section on elbow pain in his book, and he was also very helpful via e-mail about this issue.
Jim Dutton |
| westcoastram |
Posted - 10/31/2006 : 16:25:28
Yes.
I've had golfer's elbow and it was totally TMS.
Have faith. Do the work but head the good doc's warnings and slowly get back into using you arms.
Whenever I have something pop up that I think's TMS I begin to make a list of the reason's why it might be. So far, 100% of the time that list grows and as it grows, the realization hits that this could be nothing BUT TMS.
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| armchairlinguist |
Posted - 10/31/2006 : 09:18:06
Sarno says that all arm RSIs (which, unless there's an acute injury that's notable, would be pretty much what you appear to have) are TMS.
Having recovered from RSI, also after being told that dire things could (and did) happen if I kept working through pain, I'd agree.
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