Prevention of Elbow Pain

Prevention of Elbow Pain

In work or play, it is expectedly to get injuries during the cause of working. The most unwanted wide spread problem is pain on limbs, joints and body parts. Some of the injured areas cannot be managed totally by medication and physiotherapy treatment, especially the elbow. Even after a lot of rest and extensive treatments, it can recur easily and that is the reason preventive measures must be taken to prevent it from happening from the beginning. In this article, useful guides on the prevention of elbow pain will be discussed.

- Make sure you do not over use your elbow, have intervals in between each individual work.

- Handle only load that within your limit, call for help if the load is too heavy. Another good way is to use the help of equipment.

- Do the proper stretching of the arm muscles before carrying heavy load, avoid sudden lifting and lowering of the load.

- Use the proper lifting technique by holding the load closed to your body so as to reduce the tension on the tendon of arm and elbow.

- Do the necessary warm up exercise before your sports especially the muscles and tendons of the arm and elbow joint.

- Do not perform repeated movement of the elbow, it will weaken and wear the tendon of this area.

- Use only the sports equipment that within your ability and capability, for the choice of proper equipment it depends a lot on the height, build and the personal fitness.

- Similar to the lifting technique, adopt proper game posture and techniques to ensure the impact on elbow is minimum.

- If you have earlier or minor injury, try to use the counter balance band (available in all sport shops/outlets). This band is being worn just below the elbow and it will help to distribute the pressure to the whole arm and prevent the impact being concentrating on the elbow. However, be sure to allow proper blood circulation due to over tightening of the band.

It is definite that no body likes to suffer from elbow pain, follow these tips will help to stop or at least minimize the chance of injury. The next critical thing to observe is your body warning signal, if pain started and persisted, terminate the activities immediately and apply cold dressing to the injured part to prevent the injury from going worst. Have complete rest and try to find out where has gone wrong, did you stretch your muscles before exercise? repeated movement or over used your elbow? are you very very tire?

For cure of a golfer/tennis elbow pain, a tradition Chinese way of applying pressure on some acupunctural points, without needles, herbal rubs etc will be discussed at the next article. Stay tuned.

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