Thanks appreciate the recommendation I’ll take a look.
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Strongly agree with trying to rehab it a bit. If you can get yourself into some sort of PT that would be ideal. Likely would be first line even after imaging
Yeah I kind of want the imaging so I know whats going on. If its just tendinitis then I think some careful mobility work and stretching and PT will fix it. But if its a tear I don’t want to spend 3 months rehabbing something that won’t get better without surgery.
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Tears can be amenable to PT sometimes, but that depends on your level of activity, goals, fitness level, etc which I obviously know shit about. GL.
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Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it.
I dont play any sports anymore so its not like I need to throw a ball or swing a racket. That’s good. But I get a ton of physical and mental wellness out of lifting weights and avoiding presses cuts out a ton of my program. So I do need some functionality beyond getting it to stop hurting. We’ll see how it goes. The timing is fortunate because I can run and bike for recreation over the summer. Also many exercises create no discomfort at all, such as deadlifts and interestingly enough chin ups. So its not hopeless. I’ll probably just do a bunch of cardio and PR my deadlift this summer.
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After 3 years of smashing it and hitting PBs im in a bit of a slump.
Tendonitis in elbow had me trying to dial it back and dial it back to keep working through it. Finally gave up and have gone for full rest except for running.
5 weeks in. Still getting pain occasionally but i think its getting slowly better.
In conjunction, my diet has gone to shit since jan. Ive put on 15 pounds and im really not happy about it. Trying to get that under control now but its a real struggle.
On the plus side, i think the regular running is finally fixing a major imbalance in my hip/foot ive had for 3 years. Another month or so and i think ill be back to full strength in both.
Just hope the elbow gets right by then and i cam get back to lifting. I think the forced consistency of a lifting program really helps me from a diet perspective as well.
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I feel you. Over the winter I put on weight (muscle but also a lot of body fat) because I decided to try to increase my squat and deadlift so I started adding calories for that. That’s not necessarily bad, but what I missed was that over pandemic winter I ended up drinking a lot more alcohol so my calorie surplus went way too high. Oh well. There’s nothing to do about it now other than establish a calorie deficit or learn to love my new belly fat.
I’ve noticed this as well. I eat better when I work out. When I get lazy on my workouts I get lazy on my diet. It’s a shame, as in an ideal world it’d be the exact opposite.
GL with the tendonitis. I’ve been battling it as well for a couple years, may have posted about it upthread (in response to you, I think). It’s a giant pain in the ass.
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Thank you. What im reading suggests it could be a long lay off before it gets better. Given the length of time i was working through it.
Yea it’s very frustrating how long these things stick around. I more or less rested mine for the entirety of quarantine, and lo and behold it’s still there now that I’m ramping back up. I’ve decided to modify things as much as possible to live with it since it seems like it won’t go away, so I’ve done things like widen my hand grip during low-bar back squats and use the perpendicular bars for pull-ups rather than the parallel bar. Anything to take the stress off that tendon, which seems to help.
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This seems like a dumb question, but is there anything you can do nutritionally specifically for tendonitis and other slow to heal injuries? I’m thinking no. Too bad, cause we’re all going to go through it from time to time.
Thanks! In the shower was not how I expected to get hurt, ha. Getting hit by a car or something would make a better story.
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I’ve also got some elbow tendinitis or something similar that I’ve been battling for years. Even if I stop lifting i still aggravate it when I golf so I don’t think it’s ever going away. Funny thing is my right elbow was alway fucked up in my younger years from pitching and a couple years after I quit playing baseball I got it in my left elbow.
My lifting has gone to shit since the weather got nice, also let the diet get a little out of control so I’ve got fix that. Lifting right now for the 1st time in 2 weeks
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I dont think so. I think generally healthy eating rich in vitamins and nutrients and all that good stuff probably helps but once you’ve got tendinitis I think its more a rest + heat/cold treatment prescription.
Thanks. Yeah, seems right. No miracles.
My SIL had a procedure where they added platelets (I think) to the area to speed the healing. This was after the usual year(s) of pain and lack of progress. It totally sucks. I’ve been through it twice for over a year each time. The first time was from carrying furniture, and the second time from doing power cleans.
Rereading your question, I guess this doesn’t answer it, but I think the platelet thing helped.
Time and rest are working for me. I’m just impatient. Thanks, though.
I had really bad knee tendonitis 2 summers ago. Was running more than I ever had in my life, and was running all wrong (way too leaned forward, way quad dominant and no hamstrings/glutes). Still get flare ups every now and then but the only way to fix it is just to rest it.
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Coming back to this thread, I think I accidentally muted it :-(
I was getting back into working hard with a physiotherapist on my core strength and flexibility issues, which predominantly manifest in lower back pain.
Anyway, we started doing planks, and being my competitive self I kept trying to break my best times. Nothing exciting, I was getting up to about 1:15 seconds.
Little did I know its possible to push yourself too hard and injure your abdominal muscles. After a few weeks of waiting for the soreness to ease off I contacted my PCP who said he was pretty confident it was an abdominal wall issue, and to go see him in person if it hadn’t healed a few weeks later. So that time comes, and I go see him for an in-person examination. After that he felt even more confident given how superficial it was that it was abdominal wall, to take nsaids and keep resting it.
Well, a few weeks on, its still sore, even with no exercise. So now he recommends I see a sports medicine specialist (I have an appointment next week).
Its weird because the soreness is manifesting in a few different places. In a strip under my belly button, but also a few spots higher, closer to the rib cage.
I’m really frustrated. I was starting to get back to the gym, doing physio, doing cardio, etc and now its been 8 weeks of this, all because I was working hard on planks while a physiotherapist was watching me.
I also went and did another sleep study earlier this week. I’m still routinely tired throughout the day, despite consistently averaging about 8 hours sleep, using a CPAP, and taking a wakefulness drug during the day.
I am going to take this weekend to do another deep dive into personal energy. I think the four key points are:
- Sleep (quality and quantity).
- Stress/general mental health.
- Diet.
- Exercise.
I just want to see if I can identify a few low hanging fruit that I can try to turn this around.
I’ve lost 40lbs in the last 12 months, supposedly my CPAP treatment is working as intended, I’ve done a lot of work on mental health, my diet is better, I was getting back to gym. It just feels like there is some big piece of the puzzle I am missing. I have had bloodwork done by different doctors to see if anything shows up there as an explanation, but so far nothing.
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Regarding plank:
I found this video very interesting. He usually describes his stuff very visual.
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