[TheForge] Fw: tennis elbow cure?

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Hi Paul and David;
It appears that the novel part here is the stretching of the 
muscles/tendons under load...so it would be the lowering the weight in 
David's method that would make the difference.
Down in the commentary someone sites a study indicating that the same 
thing holds for building muscle mass.
My guess is that a piece of rubber hose ( radiator?) or a spring would 
also work.

David E. Smucker wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Paul N" <crosspein at sbcglobal.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:16 AM
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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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