Rehab Exercises For Golfers Elbow

The early goal of a therapeutic exercise program is to promote muscle endurance and improve resistance to repetitive stress.

Rehab exercises for golfers elbow. Straighten your elbow slightly. Then make a fist with your palm facing down. Place your affected elbow down at your side bent at about 90 degrees. This leads to pain and tenderness around the elbow.

For this exercise i used theraband s flexbar to help extend the wrist downward and to strengthen the forearm when flexing the wrist backward. Stage 2 exercises once you are able to do the exercises in stage 1 using a 3 pound weight and doing a total of 30 repetitions 3 sets of 10 you should stop stage 1 and begin stage 2. Curl the weight up and down keeping the forearm and wrist still. It s often too soon rehab exercises for golfer s elbow and other tendon conditions can very easily aggravate the injury if started too soon which they often are tendon remodeling exercise especially eccentric exercise has been shown to help the remodeling stage of tendon healing but that s the third and final stage of healing not the first.

The last of the three golfers elbow exercises is the flexbar reverse twist. Exercise 1 golfer s elbow stretch in a standing position straighten the affected arm in front of you with the palm facing outwards. Continue to support your arm on the table. We ll tell you how and when to do these exercises.

Then twist your fist out. Start with 3 sets of. We ll also provide complementary therapies. Rest the arm on a flat surface with the forearm and palm facing upwards.

Specific exercises to stretch and strengthen the muscles attached to the injured tendon will help with the healing process. Bend your elbow to 90 degrees and support your forearm on a table with your wrist placed at the edge. Lift the wrist backwards and use the other hand grip the top of the fingers. Keeping your wrist bent slowly straighten your elbow so your arm is down at your side.