Climbers Do You Have Elbow Tendinitis? Learn These Quick Tests and Keys to Treatment

Do you have elbow tendinitis and pain at your medial epicondyle or lateral epicondyle? This brief but thorough overview of elbow tendinitis background, tests and treatment can help you understand this injury and improve your recovery. We constantly use our elbows when rock climbing, golf, tennis and other sports, and the balance of breakdown/recovery can be thrown off with too much volume, intensity or changes to your program. Once started, the process of tissue breakdown can be hard to reverse without help.

There are many medical treatments but exercise and movement at the right dosage and frequency (the correct loading response) is by far the best and most effective strategy.

This video contains the following sections:
0:32 Intro
0:44 Key Concepts
5:38 The Elbow Tendinitis Tests
6:39 Keys to Treatment
7:14 Flexbar Exercises
8:18 Progressing to DeadHangs

This video is for informational purposes only and is not intended to replace good quality medical diagnosis and care.

[Questiolllustro]

I started climbing this past year and have had tendon pain everywhere in my arms at one point or another. Finally someone that talks about my cases which are pain with no swelling. So glad to hear this is normal. I had to watch so many videos to get this very basic piece of information, thank you for being thorough!

[rickhorton]

Thanks for your video. Years ago I had tennis elbow from playing tennis but now I have it from playing guitar. I find your videos helpful. Thanks again.

[markstoudt]

I never knew I was supposed to do exercises to help! I always tried resting my arm as much as possible. Thank you for having a video that is short, informative and to the

[andresgduarte]

This is one of the best videos I have seen on youtube regarding explanations, tests and treatments of conditions.

[bagwon]

I'm a few days into following your advice and already the progress toward healing my tendonosis is very, very apparent. Thanks so much

[pizzapubfireman]

This was a great video explanation! This pulled it all together for me! Thanks!

[haaribo]

Had this problem for 5 months now, will try these

[jefferylennerth]

Yes, started experiencing discomfort and pain after beginning pull ups regimen. I will follow your suggestions. Thank you

[cornlife]

I am excited to try this. I am not a climber but came here anyway. I think painting may have messed my elbow up unless computer mouse just all of a sudden irritated me. Than you for these solid exercises that I can do.

[evercuriousmichelle]

You're the first person to talk about how gripping can contribute to elbow tendonitis! I do lindy hop and the hand position for my connection hand is similar to that of a climbers. And our hands are the epicenter of all of the nice rubber band effect from the dance style. So I think my repetitive computer work set the stage, and a particularly rigorous dance class tipped me over the edge. Thank you for such enlightening videos!

[Zero_Zero_Zero_Zero]

Thanks doc.
Clear and concise.
Much appreciated.

[karambawilski]

I will test it out, starting from now :)

[mariamarakimario]

I’m going to save this! Thank you so much 😊

[aojiao]

Super helpful video! Was having this elbow problem 3 sessions ago and this is the exact video I'm looking for. Thank you so much, Berk!

[jeancammas]

This was super helpful! you just got a new subscriber. Thanks a lot!

[MtbStoat]

Yes, climbing indoors & mtbing, I increased the indoor gym work over winter which caused it...

[elibennerr]

I’m a baseball pitcher and I never new what was wrong but I think i have it thanks !

[allison_YTONLY]

Thank you so much for this helpful video. How come my doctor doesn’t know this? I had tendonosis for 2 months and it’s still sore, he prescribed me Naproxen.
I got my elbow sore from lifting water bottles 40pcs from Costco, carrying lifting to deliver to my mom’s house.

[MixedHustle]

Thanks bro, the information in this video was definitely helpful!

[haard]

Thank you so much for this beautifully informative video, brother.