Rehab and Prehab
I’ve been reading material concerning my lateral epicondylitis. They all stress you should only procede to rehab after complete cessation of pain. Ah… I think it’s time for an update on the popular injury name or else separate “tennis elbow” from “bencher’s elbow”. There is NEVER complete cessation of pain for us.
Oh yes there is: when you stop training. And then when you resume it, it hurts again. My physiotherapist violently disagrees and blames me for reckless training and competition behavior: b**t.
At this point, I don’t believe these things can be anything but chronic in ogres like us. And we will keep benching.
Some of us develop some sense and practice pre-hab and re-hab and this is what I am trying to do. Eventually, I will learn to live with this, just like I learned to live with acro-myo-clavicular injury.
