Hello.
First of all, a huge congrats on the awesome work done at Barbell Medicine.
I will try to be as brief as possible since everyone´s time is precious.
I have a golfer´s elbow on my left arm for 3 years for doing heavy tricep pushdowns. After long time of research about what kind of therapy I could do, I found Barbell Medicine. Since I was already convinced before by many studies I found online that eccentric exercises were the way to go, here on the forum I was also advised to do those kind of exercises, including dumbbell wrist flexion. Resources from other studies also suggested dumbbell wrist extension so I also did those, and pronation supination exercises with a hammer.
I did just about 3 times per week, only 2 exercises of 2 sets of 10 to 15 reps. Didn’t took long enough until I also got tennis elbow on the same arm. After resting again for more than a year and the pain being still there, I decided to contact my former sports doctor that is abroad, so it wasn’t easy to do it before. He advised me to do only closed kinetic chain exercises, suggesting that I could start will push-ups (with floor handled since my wrists are also weak) and farmers walk. 5/6 set of 7 reps for push-ups, and 2/5 sets farmer´s walk with 1kg dumbbells (then going up to 3kg if no discomfort). Only 3 times per week. Well, again, wasn’t too long until I started to feel some discomfort, not much pain to be honest, more discomfort, in the tennis elbow and golfers elbow on my right arm. Great! Now 2 same injuries on both of my arms?? I stopped, afraid of getting, again, more injuries while trying to rehab one. The discomfort is basically gone after more than a week but i´m divided if I should continue. Do you recommend this kind of closed kinetic chain exercises to rehab golfers and tennis elbow? Would like to have a second opinion since i didnt had success with the eccentric exercises.
Thank you very much in advance!