Maggot MD help please...

So I took up climbing last year. Its a great sport I love it, and I'd really love to keep doing it with no pain.

The symptoms:

My elbow fucking hurts! Ok, say you're standing with you arms at your side, on my right arm, on the inside starting from the elbow and working maybe a 1/3 of the way up my arm it feels like some one is using a wrench and pulling/ winding up something (i'm guessing tendons). Obviously, as i'm sure this post is making very clear, I have no medical background, or knowledge.


Some causes or extra things that I think might be helpful:

I started climbing right after after a rough landing on my right shoulder while skiing, it was stiff for a few days and didn't get full range of motion back till a few months later after I had already been climbing a lot. I don't know if that is part or causal of this, but I just thought you might need to know.

Other than climbing, the only workout my arms get are push ups and pull ups.

I didn't climb most of the summer as I wasn't near anyone who had gear or any walls, so obviously my arm didn't hurt, I was hoping the problem would go away if I gave it a rest for the summer and let whatever it was that was wrong heal, but obviously that didn't happen.

What is wrong with me and what can I do to fix it? I am going to go see a doc hopefully next week.

Thanks ahead of time for the help! Let me know if I need to add more details.

really tough to tell from the descripton.

some questions:

above the elbow or below?

With palm up, inside or outside of the elbow?

what motions specifically hurt, straitening, bending?

Waht activities hurt, lifting carrying, pulling, pushing, gripping etc...

any swelling

where is is tender to the touch

any discoloration

any irregular appearance to the arm at all

Sorry for the bad description...

http://www.briceharris.net/random/pain.jpg

Thats where it hurts, I couldn't do well enough the first time so i just did what i know better.

Its an over all soreness, when I climb obviously, but especially right after I finish a route with lots of pulls on the arm. It usually takes 3 climbs at the gym, or 150ft or so of climbing, for it to really start bothering me.

No swelling or discoloration or odd appearances.

Tender to touch where the blue line is.

pain with a pulling motion in that location is probaly a muscle strain. The location you marked is on the tricep but that doesn't totally make sense based on pain with pulling as you describe.

Either way treat it as a muscle/tendon strain. If this is acute ( less than a week or so treat with ice and gentle stretching and relative rest (meaning reduced activity but not totally inactive or the classic hey doc it hurts when I go like this.....well don't do that.... after a fwe days of ice move to heat

If this is chronic/more then a few weeks use heat and stretching with relative rest after the pain goes away being a low ramp ot full activity again begining with some light strength exercises.

but by all mean keep your appointment with your doc to be sure.

My advice...


Climb slabs :fm:

Talked to a PT a week or so ago, and he gave me a few stretches to do and told me to ice it, it seems to be helping out, it still gives minor soreness, but nothing like it was.

medial epicondylitis.