A Simple Stretch For Fast Recovery from Elbow Pain

Tennis Elbow doesn’t just affect tennis players! If you work out regularly (in the gym or by doing an outdoor sport) and you’re suffering from persistent elbow pain, it could down to this particular condition.

It’s also called lateral epicondylitis – the main symptom is having pain on the outside of your elbow. As you might have guessed, it’s caused by more than just playing tennis.

In fact, your elbow pain can be caused by something as simple as doing exercises in the gym with the wrong posture. Or putting too much stress on your arms and upper body when you work out.

But the true source of your elbow pain is the nerves in your neck.

That might come as surprise! It happens because the muscles in your elbows are powered by nerves which come from your neck, like the radial nerve. And if any of these nerves get trapped in your muscles, it can cause elbow pain.

What causes these nerves to be trapped? Poor neck mechanics and common posture problems, like hunching over. You can see an example using tricep dips in the photo below – on the left is the incorrect posture (neck forward, shoulders rounded) and on the right is the correct posture (back straight, chin up).

You can use this simple stretch to free your nerves and eliminate your elbow pain.
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This is a neural mobilization exercise which will free your trapped nerves. It “flosses” them between the muscles of your arm and stretches them out. (Just like when you floss between your teeth!)

	Standing up straight, tilt your head and neck away from the side that hurts – so if your elbow pain is on the left, then tilt to the right (and vice versa).
	Next, bring your shoulder blade down (on the side with the pain) and position your forearm so that it’s more or less perpendicular to the floor.
	Reach behind you. It might sound silly, but to get into the right position, you want to literally imagine that you’re about to try and catch a mini-basketball behind you. Then bring your forearm back to its previous position.

Repeat this movement a few times. You should start feeling a stretch up in your shoulder and along your arm. (That’s your radial nerve being stretched out.)

After you finish stretching, you should feel relief from your pain. And the only other thing you have to do is get someone to double-check your posture while you’re working out – to make sure you don’t accidentally cause the pain to come back!

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