[TheForge] Fw: tennis elbow cure?

[David E. Smucker]

Great to see the video.  I have used something similar in the past when mine 
was real bad and it really helped.  The use of the flexbars looks like an 
improvement over what I use and the movements shown in the video look like 
they might be more effective.

What I have is a length -- about 14 inches of 1 - 1/2 inch PVC drain pipe. 
I was told to hold this in both hands with the palms up and roll the pipe up 
(top of pipe towards you) repeat a bunch of times and then to turn your hand 
over and roll the pipe down (top of pipe rotating away from you).  It was 
even suggest that I could add a string and a weight (milk bottle with water) 
and wind it up and then wind it down.  I never got to doing this.  I did 
have a length of PVC in the office, in the car, at my desk at home and in 
the shop.

As I noted above, I think the flexbar and the movements shown would be an 
improvement.  Since I retired and am in the shop most days I seem to have 
much less problems that when I over did it on the weekends.

Dave



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Subject: Re: [TheForge] tennis elbow cure?

> Nice find Peter!
> I gotta try that. I checked Amazon, and there are 3 ranges of "flexbar".
> Red (Light) Green(Medium) and Blue (Heavy). The Youtube video shows red,
> but the shows a red one in use. I think I'll "go green".
>
> $21 bucks is cheap relief. I even have a timer go off on my computer
> every 20 minutes right now to remind me to stretch out my elbow
> tendons... Otherwise I get recurring tedonitis, both elbows, both
> lateral and medial epicondilitis. (I type a lot at my "day job" and
> that's a contibuting factor... I wish I could afford to change that)
>
> **PN
>
>
> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>> veeeeery interesting!
>>
>>
>>> http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/phys-ed-an-easy-fix-for-tennis-elbow/?em
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