Help identifying this arm injury??

[Melody68]

I'm 69 and have been taking T for a year and lifting weights for 8 months now. I like the board members here and hope they can help me with yet another problem.

My left arm is my non-dominant arm and if I'm looking at it with a straight arm, palms up, the pain is at the inside crease, but near the outside of the arm, kind of at the top where that meaty muscle called a "brachioradialis" is. It's not the right place for what they call golfer's elbow. It hurts when I do pulling exercises, like curls or rows, with pain that orignates at that spot and runs down that bigger forearm muscle on the inside and towards the wrist. It seems to be OK if I'm doing pushing exercises like dumbell or bench presses. If I had to guess I'd say that I went too heavy on my close grip palms up pulldowns which I was doing for biceps. I do that one instead of going heavy on conventional curls since I find it easier on the elbows.

It's kinda got me bummed out since I had a problem recently with tennis elbow, and that took almost a year to heal.

Any thoughts? Can I train around it, or will that hamper the healing? Anything I can do other than RICE? Thanks!

 

[Vince]

I'm 69 and have been taking T for a year and lifting weights for 8 months now. I like the board members here and hope they can help me with yet another problem.

My left arm is my non-dominant arm and if I'm looking at it with a straight arm, palms up, the pain is at the inside crease, but near the outside of the arm, kind of at the top where that meaty muscle called a "brachioradialis" is. It's not the right place for what they call golfer's elbow. It hurts when I do pulling exercises, like curls or rows, with pain that orignates at that spot and runs down that bigger forearm muscle on the inside and towards the wrist. It seems to be OK if I'm doing pushing exercises like dumbell or bench presses. If I had to guess I'd say that I went too heavy on my close grip palms up pulldowns which I was doing for biceps. I do that one instead of going heavy on conventional curls since I find it easier on the elbows.

It's kinda got me bummed out since I had a problem recently with tennis elbow, and that took almost a year to heal.

Any thoughts? Can I train around it, or will that hamper the healing? Anything I can do other than RICE? Thanks!

These are my thoughts. I'm not saying any of this will help.

For now I would train around it. I had a really bad right elbow could not straighten my arm. My buddies talked me into bowling so I got the lightest ball I could find and used that. By the end of the season I was completely healed, plus I was using a heavier ball.

I don't know if this will help but for your elbow use very light weights.

I did hurt my wrist golfing. I could only do pull-ups no chin-ups. I work out in the morning so at night I would do one painful chin up after about a month I was up to 13.

 

[Guided_by_Voices]

I'm 69 and have been taking T for a year and lifting weights for 8 months now. I like the board members here and hope they can help me with yet another problem.

My left arm is my non-dominant arm and if I'm looking at it with a straight arm, palms up, the pain is at the inside crease, but near the outside of the arm, kind of at the top where that meaty muscle called a "brachioradialis" is. It's not the right place for what they call golfer's elbow. It hurts when I do pulling exercises, like curls or rows, with pain that orignates at that spot and runs down that bigger forearm muscle on the inside and towards the wrist. It seems to be OK if I'm doing pushing exercises like dumbell or bench presses. If I had to guess I'd say that I went too heavy on my close grip palms up pulldowns which I was doing for biceps. I do that one instead of going heavy on conventional curls since I find it easier on the elbows.

It's kinda got me bummed out since I had a problem recently with tennis elbow, and that took almost a year to heal.

Any thoughts? Can I train around it, or will that hamper the healing? Anything I can do other than RICE? Thanks!

That sounds somewhat like what I had which I think was Cubital Tunnel Syndrome. In my case it was the nerve that goes past the funny bone in your elbow becoming irritated and out of place. As with all joint injuries, use very light weights to get blood flow through the area at least once a day. Use DMSO at least once a day on your elbow and arm. Do not strain with your grip when you do pulling exercises as that can reinjure it. Stay with the parts of your workout that don't hurt. Get some BPC-157 patches and put one on the area every third day or so. There are pain creams you can use once the healing is well underway (diclofenac) but I would not use them until healing is well underway so that you don't mask the pain and re-injure the joint. Make sure that your daily activities are not aggravating the issue. For me, I had to have a pad under my elbow when working at a desk and I had to use my other arm to open cars doors from the inside, for example. Hang in there and stay consistent with everything else. Injuries are just part of life.