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- Hi, folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- Today, were gonna talking about how to fix elbow pain.
We got one simple self-treatment, only takes 90 seconds
- That's right Bob. - We'll just have 90 seconds.
And it's for both tennis and golfer's elbow.
So it doesn't matter which one you have
we're gonna cover them all.
- The concept is the same
just a little bit different mechanics.
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Are we giving away the massager Mike?
Mike, says we're giving away the handheld massager, Brad.
- Okay. - You can actually use that
on tennis elbow too.
- Yeah, we can work with that a little bit.
We'll maybe show a little bit of that later.
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All right, Brad.
Take it away. - Okay, so golfer's elbow,
tennis elbow, lateral epicondylitis
medial epicondylitis, medically speaking
but it's elbow pain.
If you fall and you land on concrete
that elbow pain is completely different
that you need to call back for.
What we're talking about is these elbow pains
that come from repetitive motion
or you aggressively go do a task, like the other weekend
I ran the chainsaw for a couple of hours.
I hardly ever do that.
Oh, yeah. - Right, you felt it.
- I got some elbow pain as a result of that.
- Well Golf, if you actually hit the ground
really hard by mistake. - You'd never do that.
- Yeah, it happens a lot.
You're really doing a jarring motion to that elbow.
- So what you're doing is you're tearing some tendons
right by the bone,
and the elbow, the tennis elbow is on the outside here
near this bone.
And there's typically a really tender spot
right where they connect.
And golfer's elbow is this the opposite side
and there's a tender spot right there.
- And one thing we should explain is
the muscles in the forearm, actually attach to that bone
on this side and the extensor WAD they call it,
they attach on this side.
So you've got muscles all the way along here
that are attaching to that bone.
Muscles all the way along here attaching to this bone.
- So before you do this technique
I know people are gonna say 90 seconds.
Why did it take 10 minutes?
Because we have to explain how to do it properly.
- Why, you have to understand it.
- It's not gonna work unless you do it properly.
But so, if I've got tennis elbow
I check here and I'm gonna go up in here.
I'm gonna to palpate or feel in these muscles.
You're probably gonna to find a real tight, knotty,
painful muscle group in there.
So just assess it, see how tender it is and how tight it is.
Same thing, Bob's gonna do the golfer's elbow.
- So, I'm checking on the underside.
I guess, you'd be of the forearm or the inside,
however you wanna coin it?
But I'm looking for tender spots along in here.
- And you could actually massage that area
but this is much easier and faster than the massage.
Now we're gonna get a, what they call positional release,
or it was called strain, counter-strain number of years ago.
Works very well.
Now, if you've got tennis elbow
this is the mechanics you're going to do.
You're gonna, and I do mine, in my recliner
and I have a pillow.
- You can do it lying down in bed.
- Yep, you can do that as well.
With the tennis elbow,
you're gonna bring your hand back like this.
- [Bob] So the elbow's bent.
- Yep, the elbow is bent.
Bring this back like this.
And then I'm gonna rotate,
and my thumb is pointing towards my face.
I'm gonna rotate it away
but you're gonna go back and forth
until you find the most comfortable position possible.
So you may do a little bit of,
this is a general position you're in,
but you may do some fine-tuning
and you'll find it where it feels the most comfortable
in that painful spot.
And then you're gonna hold it right there for 90 seconds.
And you're gonna do this when it's nice and quiet
and you relax.
It's not when the kids are running around
jumping on your lap and that kind of thing
for family people.
- [Bob] And make sure it's 90 seconds.
- Yeah, you got to look at a clock
and they say a minimum of 90 seconds.
You can go up to 120 seconds.
So, I'm gonna do that.
- [Bob] That would be two minutes.
(Brad laughs)
- There you go.
We got our math done.
And then it's important when you're done
let it come off slowly and relax.
You're not gonna aggressively stretch it.
You're not gonna go work on something.
If you're gonna do the golfer's elbow
you're not gonna go golfing afterwards.
- Yeah, it's actually opposite for the golfer's elbow.
So he went this way for tennis elbow.
I'm actually gonna go this way.
So I got the wrist bent, elbow bent
and now I'm gonna turn it also, fingers are going out.
- [Brad] Yeah, but again,
you're gonna rotate it back and forth
and find the most comfortable position.
- Now, I can't relate to this right now,
because I don't have any tennis elbow or a golfer's elbow
but I had some hip pain, Brad did this,
when we did this with my hip.
And you could tell when it hit the right spot,
it was comfortable.
It was like, "No, that hurts.
That hurts.
No, that feels good."
So you really feel what spot feels the best.
And then once I find it, I can actually go down like this.
- Yeah, wherever you have that comfortable feeling
maybe it varies in how your pillow is situated,
and your injury is,
but then you're gonna hold it like that.
90 seconds, relaxed,
just chill out for 90 seconds.
And then when you're done, you open it up slowly.
- Slowly.
- Yeah, if you wanna do some massage,
gentle massage on the muscles afterwards, you can do that.
But don't do anything aggressive.
Don't go out, and like I said, golf again or-
- And that's where the massager comes in handy.
These handheld massagers are really good
for smaller muscles like this.
Now also, if you're a slightly built person-
- Thin, you don't have a lot of muscle.
- You probably wanna even use this instead of a massage gun.
They're very inexpensive,
but that's what I like about them, Brad.
And yet they come with five different heads,
you can put on there,
and you can work that muscle quite easily.
- Now be careful, you definitely don't wanna go up
by that bone where it's tender,
'cause this is gonna irritate the living age out of it.
- You won't be happy with us.
- You'll wanna keep it in the muscle belly
where it feels good
and you're getting that out a little bit.
- Yeah, I'll do that. - Take care of
your tennis elbow.
All right, so, very good.
Now the other thing is, as you do that
do it three times a day.
I know. - Oh, sure.
- I didn't even have to do it that often on mine.
I didn't have a severe case either time,
but it worked so well, I forgot about it
and I forgot to do the next treatment.
(Bob laughs)
I'm serious, it was a good deal.
- It helped my hip too.
I was surprised.
And I kind of, same thing,
kind of forgot about it.
- You didn't do it three times a day,
'cause you forgot about it. - No, I did it once.
And I didn't feel it much anymore
when I was doing my full rolling.
So, that's weird.
- Yeah, I'm amazed.
I wish I had learned this much earlier in my therapy career
'cause I would have used it on a lot more patients.
So, it's all the way in life, and it falls into place.
- Remember Brad, I can fix just about anything-
- Except for-
- A broken heart.
- That's exactly right.
But we'll work on that too.
And maybe this baby will have something.
- Maybe there's (Brad growls)
a positional relief.
- Yeah, this is gonna work Bob.
I can tell. - Ah, yeah.
(Brad growls) All right.