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I’ve tried cortisone shots that relieved the pain for a short time. The orthopedic surgeon that I saw told me it was tendonitis. He said, eventually I wouldn’t need the shots anymore but the pain comes back. I took the shots for at least twice a year for about 3-4 years when I had tried an anti-inflammatory called Mobic 7.5mg, which also helped for a while. I still take the medication but it’s not working anymore. I also take Ibuprofen 800mg with no relief. 
 
The pain is affecting my forearm when the muscle is contracted. When I try to flex my bicep and the forearm together the pain is excruciating. When I perform bicep curls the pain is severe in my forearm (restricting or controlling the amount of weight I can curl) near or not far from my elbow. It seems to be near the radius bone, toward the tuberosity where the capitulum is connected. If it were a muscle I’d describe it as the Extensor Carpi Radialus Longus. The reason I know these names is, I have an All-In-One Anatomy Chart. I’ve tried by the chart to pinpoint exactly where the pain seems to be generating. At times I can bend my arm and feel something crack or pop like a bone is out of alignment. I might be grasping at straws but I’m trying to describe it the best way I can. I had an MRI done a few years ago and nothing out of the ordinary showed except the orthopedic surgeon diagnosed it as tendonitis, hence the cortisone shots.
 
These are some of the exercises:
(wide-grip chins, hammer curls, barbell curls, upright rows, bent-over rows, dumbbell flies, heavy benching), that are causing me great pain and an unnecessary weakness because of the pain.
 
Does anyone else have this problem or maybe had this problem in the past? If you had this problem how did you resolve it? I need some recommendations on this because there is no way I’ll ever be able to compete in a bodybuilding contest (all natural … no steroids) with this.
 
I’d love to hear from someone or anyone about this issue!
 
Thanks,
 

Matthew Lindsay in Florida   

Today is the first time in exactly one month that I trained my legs. I played a game of basketball with some of the youth from our church and realized while I was playing that I twisted my back. I also discovered that I was no longer a youth at least no longer in my teens. It wasn’t that I didn’t already know that, but deep down inside I feel like I still am.

Todays Workout

(Legs)

Squats: 1×20x135, 1×15x225, 1×4x275, 1×2x315

Hack Squats w/barbell (our gym doesn’t have a hack-squat machine): 3×12x135

Stiff Legged Deadlifts: 3×15x135

Standing Calf Raises (on a smith machine): 3×20x135

Leg Extensions: 3×15x80 

Leg Curls: 3×15x70

     I started training at home mostly because of the convenience after a hard day at work. After I trained at home for several years I tore my rotator cuff in my left shoulder. It was from benching and I didn’t have a spotter. I tried training through the pain but it wasn’t really do-able. I let off of training for a month or so until the pain would let off. The first chance I got I’d start lifting again. The pain would be a little tolerable but after a time when my bench weight would start to climb again the pain level was right back to where it was. This went on for several years going through massage to deep massage or rolfing hoping to try and fix the problem this way instead of surgery. I just wanted the pain to stop.

I finally had an MRI done that showed me that I had torn my rotator cuff. Surgery was my only option. The quality of life I experienced with the pain was depressing to me. I couldn’t do the the things in life that I enjoyed. So in 1997 I had surgery on my left shoulder. After several months of physical therapy I was back to work at my job but still not able to lift. It took two years to get my strength back to where I was before the tear occurred.

I tore my rotator cuff in my right shoulder in 2004 at work not even weight lifting. Again I needed surgery. After the surgery it was right back to where I was before. I was doing physical therapy for several months before I could go back to work. Another two years before my strength would come back to where I was in 1999.

I just recently joined a gym again for the first time since 1993 after training at home mostly off and on due to injuries through out the years. I’ve got good equipment at home but the atmosphere in a gym can drive you to push yourself past what you might at home. I’m still training at home sometimes depending on what time I get home from work.

Who else trains at home and why? If you had the room at home what type of equipment would you want?

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