Have Tennis Elbow? AVOID These Gym Exercises

Today, Dr. Todd is speaking to all of you experiencing tennis elbow pain, aka lateral epicondylitis. With tennis elbow, gym exercises to avoid are related to flexion. Much weightlifting and strength training heavily emphasizes flexion, so if you are wondering can you still work out if you have tennis elbow, the short answer is yes - but you’ll be working some new elements into your regimen, and backing away from certain flexion movements affecting the elbow.

In this episode, Dr. Todd introduces essential mobility tools for tennis elbow massage (including a tennis elbow brace), tennis elbow stretches, and a few simple tennis elbow exercises that enable you to perform effective tennis elbow treatment on yourself over time.

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(And yes, he also flags tennis elbow exercises to avoid when you have wrist extensor tendinosis, as well as a simple exercise to stop tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow.)

Dr. Todd Pickman DC is a gonstead chiropractor and founder of Gonstead Spine & Wellness in Idaho’s Treasure Valley - serving the cities of Boise, Meridian, Nampa and Caldwell, as well as many patients who travel to the clinic from out of state. Dr. Todd has innovated a unique and extremely effective chiropractic treatment plan that integrates chiropractic adjustment, spinal curve correction, and functional movement, delivering incredible results for clients and their families. A functional movement expert in addition to being a chiropractor, Dr. Todd is the founder of MovenowU and Movenow Kettlebell.

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[Lord-Vader-Lives]

upright rows, if you don't want it watch it

[daymissionman]

I’ll save you 11 minutes of your life. He only says avoid upright rows !

[chadress]

Hearing about your experience was helpful, however what exercises should be avoided???

[kurtg]

Thanks Dr. Todd for teaching the "why" related to "tennis elbow" pain. I hurt my shoulder lifting weights many years ago with no rehab. I eventually developed tennis elbow playing too much baseball/softball. Now it returned when playing golf (I cast the club when I swing). I have been stretching and strengthening my shoulder and it has helped my tennis elbow alot. Until recently I didn't know that shoulder problems could possibly relate to my problem. again, thanks!

[shanerogers]

Wish I had known that in my earlier years, upright rows were one of my primary go-to’s at the gym when I was younger and I can certainly feel it in my 50’s now. However, this should have been a two-minute video…AT MOST!!!

[cassiusfowler]

Theres 100s of videos that explain this topic and this is the only one i find informative and benficial. Thank you so much for this gem 👊🏾

[richmcconnell]

Thank you for this video... I am about to get my third set of injections for medial and lateral epicondylitis in BOTH elbows. The medial on both sides was creeping in when I thought I needed to become more active (lifting) to "loosen up" and get in better shape. I was doing upright rows and both lateral epicondyles fired off and here I am. I have been through 3 months of PT prior to my first injections but it's my own fault for not letting them heal. I do the stretches and exercises learned in PT ... butI definitely did not rest on other activities. The good news is that I feel that my left elbow (both sides) is 85% better... medial on the right is almost zero discomfort but right lateral is horrible... again. I came across this video to discover strength exercises I can do while letting my elbows fully heal. I will definitely check out more of your kettle bell videos... I have not used kettle bells too much... all old school lifting I "learned" in Navy Special Operations circa early 1990s. I guess it's time to evolve.

[TheHazyRigby]

This is incredibly informative, thank you!!

[juliannalin]

Thank you so much…. I got my tennis elbow from exactly the same reason you did - upright rows !! Will never put myself in that position again. And I did intuitively start using ankle straps on my wrists last week (before I saw your video) to help me do the same exercises without needing to grip and cause more pain in the extensor muscles.

Extension is Life - AMEN to that !!

[ridewithpuspay]

plz provide me part two(next video) continuation of this video link. video was so informative and helped me alot. thanks and keep uploading more videos

[maksure]

u r 100%ryt sir as i am suffering from tennis elbow due to such workout because when i was doing this workout i have felt light pain but when i did it often it became the tennis elbow

[keneofugotti]

Poor description... only says one exercise to avoid. Upright rows. And that's toward end of video.

[kwacz]

I have had pain on the outside inside and center of my elbow for about 2 months now and it doesn't seem to be getting any better it gets a little bit better for a while and then all the sudden gets worse again and resting doesn't seem to be fixing it it's not bad pain and it doesn't hurt constantly but obviously I can't lift anything heavy or squeeze anything hard and it is very discouraging at this point because even with rest it seems to get better and then starts to go and get worse again

[roadracerqx]

Overdoing hammer curls….thru the discomfort/pain signals….triggered my elbow tendinitis. Four weeks of discomfort so far 🤬👎

[simplehealthyliving]

Sincere request. Please reply. A guy with skinny forearms wants to do forearm exercises to look decently masculine. So elbow flexions are a must, right? No upright rows of course. So would you say PREHABING the elbow extensors with your recommended exercises every alternate day then doing elbow flexions every other day is a smart way to avoid injuries and get to look decently male (no embarrassing skinny forearms) in a few months?

[Damien_JH]

Oh wow that pop you mentioned I had this at work once lower back two weeks after that I couldn’t sit up at all or twist my body so maybe I done a tendon bothered me for years after that

[aherosquest]

Hey Doc. Thanks for this upload. I’m new to tennis elbow and my orthopedic doctor said that in a pushing motion I’m good to go while avoiding any pulling motion that may aggravate the injury.
However, in doing triceps (bodyweight and suicide grip) I still noticed some pain there. I’ve been given the standard self-inducing therapy but am worried that I will lose my gains.
I’m really at a loss in what to do - so I have three questions:

1. What are the grip assist tools you used to maintain your athletic performance and if I use them properly without engaging the muscles you mentioned in the video that will cause inflammation and pain in the injury, would I be good to go with any and all exercises?

2. Should I just avoid doing upper body workouts in general and focus on other exercises?

Please and thank you.

[ta]

You did explain what is tennis elbow and what aggravates it. But your video thumbnail specifically mentions what exercises to avoid which you didn’t talk about at all besides upright rows. I guess next time please stick to what you shows on the thumbnail.

[chrissmall]

that was drawn out mate you could have scaled it back by half

[Unrealistic-oc]

Just avoid upright rows? How about skull crushers, push downs, and dips?