Do you have sharp pain in your elbow when working out? If the pain is on the outside of the elbow, it's often called tennis elbow, and if it's on the inside of the elbow it's commonly referred to as golfers elbow. If you're like me and don't play tennis or golf then we call it lifters elbow
Typically we'll feel pain on the inside of the elbow when doing exercises like biceps curls, or pain on the outside of the elbow when picking up weights or doing bench press.
You don't have to live with nagging elbow pain. Check out some of the easy corrections you can make to your workouts to help fix the pain and help keep it from coming back.
If you've got any kind of joint pain in the gym, while working out, then this is the series for you. Fitness expert James Grage asks his good friend, former bodybuilder and Sports Physician, Dr. Spencer Baron for his best expert advice on what exercises in the gym can cause pain in the elbow what corrections we can make to these exercises to avoid elbow injury, and what we can do to help alleviate the pain.
Dr. Baron, founder of Neuro Sport Elite, recently completed 19 years as the Team Chiropractic Physician for the NFL's Miami Dolphins. He also began his 7 season tenure with Major League Baseball’s, Miami Marlins during their ’97 World Series, as well as, working with National Hockey’s, Florida Panther’s. Additionally, he’s worked with MLB baseball teams like the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies. Dr. Spencer Baron is a Diplomate of the American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians (only 375 in the world).
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0:00 Elbow Pain When Working Out
0:19 Golfers Elbow, Tennis Elbow & Lifters Elbow
0:55 Causes of Pain on Inside of Elbow & Pain on Outside of Elbow
1:20 Biceps Tendinitis (Long Head of the Biceps Tendo) is the Real Culprit
2:11 Giving the Middle Finger (test)
2:45 Pain on Outside of the Elbow with Bench Press
6:53 Pain on the Inside of the Elbow Doing Curls
9:56 Pain in the Elbow Picking Up Dumbbells
10:23 Best Way to do presses without elbow pain
12:04 Elbow Pain on Preacher Curls or Bar Curls
15:20 Should You Train Forearms?
16:00 Simple Causes and Fixes for Elbow Pain