arm pain

[Christian C]

I've been having alot of pain in my elbow lately. It has been going on for about a month and the pain steadily increases every time I ride. It is only in my left elbow and it is a steady throbbing that stays wiht me for a few hours after I ride. I ride an echo pure with an echo fork, handlebars, stem and grips. Any ideas on what this is from??

[Elan]

not enough supplementary glucosamine?

[Boo_Berry]

uhhh that's not normal... have u gone to see the doc? has it happened before?

[Luriks]

I used to have some pain in my right elbow when I got my Control. I wasn't riding for 1.5 month while i was waiting for it. But now I don't realy have eny pain enymore. Don't ride too often. Try to get some rest.

[atypical]

Tendonitis.

[Christian C]

It's never happened before. The best way i can desribe it is like havign an extremely severe case of tennis elbow. I know what that is like because Ive had that in my right arm. I guess I could go to a doctor. So far ive just been icing it and using advil.

[afrobot]

I had that pain really bad early on. Quit riding for a week and start up slow it finally went away.

Glucosamine didn't do shit. It's just part of the learning exp.

[trauma100]

Basically your right about the tennis elbo...what you have more than likely is inflamation or rupturing of the lateral Epicondyle & tricep tendon witch in a nutshell is tennis elbo. I had the same problem when I started doing bigger up's and gap's it put's an extreme amount of stress on those tendon's and ligament's. I went to an orthopedist friend of mine and told him about the whole trials thing and showed him my arm position and he laughed and told me I was going to be eating with my feet when I'm 60! Ice,rest is your best bet you can get one of those pressure band's but I rode with one and it didnt do shit. you will get those tendons stretched and use to the motion and stretching eventually and this doesnt happen with everyone , BUT DONT PUSH YOURSELF! once things start to go bad there surgery is your only bet.