A common symptom of Tennis Elbow is pain. Whether it’s a dull ache, or sharp pain, or a burning sensation, if you have Lateral Epicondylitis, you are going to have pain.

What causes Tennis Elbow Pain? What makes it hurt? Why won’t it just go away for good?

These are all very good questions. As much as we just learn to live with the chronic pain, we really don’t need to. A sore elbow is one thing. It will generally take care of itself.

But Tennis Elbow is a progressive dynamic of increasing shortness, tightness, and pain. Most people really only start getting concerned when the pain and other symptoms are so bad that they can’t use their arm, or the pain is so intense that they HAVE to do something about it.

A good first step is finding out WHY it hurts. Then you can do something about it.


What Causes The Pain?

We usually think about this kind of pain as coming from injury. Sometimes it does. Tendonitis pain can either come from actual wear and tear damage to a tendon, or it can feel exactly as bad and can be just as debilitating without any actual damage.

How can you have pain without tendon damage?

When the body is injured or just -thinks- that it is injured, it kicks in an Inflammation Response. Inflammation traps fluid in the area, and it releases chemicals that enhance your sensitivity to pain. This chemical gets trapped in the tissue in the area.

This pain enhancing chemical, aka ‘the chemical’, sets your neuro-receptors on edge, such that if there were enough chemical in the area, you could lightly poke your skin with your finger and it would HURT.

The more you hurt, the more your nervous system tries to protect you by tightening everything up and…you guessed it…increasing the Inflammation Response that dumps more chemical.

Not a very smart system, but that’s what it does.

So you use your hands and arms for months and years at work or at play, muscles get tight, wear and tear damage or irritation happens, and inflammation slowly builds up. Your body compensates until it can’t compensate anymore, and that’s when you start to hurt.

Why Won’t The Pain Go Away?

You have chronic pain from Tennis Elbow because tight muscles and connective tissue are essentially a half-squeezed sponge. Full of chemical and metabolic waste product. Stuck in the tissue.

This constantly tells the nervous system that there is a problem, so it constantly keeps things tight and full of chemical.

Maybe you have an elbow injury. Maybe you just have a dynamic of tightness and resulting pain. Maybe you have both.

The body can easily heal injury. But it gets kind of dumb when it comes to helping you heal instead of helping to protect you with more of what causes problems.

That’s why the pain can hang on for so long.

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Joshua Tucker, B.A, C.M.T is The Tendonitis Expert. He educates and trains individuals to ELIMINATE their Tendonitis related issues like Tennis Elbow, Carpal Tunnel, Wrist Tendonitis, Plantar Fasciitis, and Shoulder Cuff Tendonitis. Joshua says “When you’ve tried all available options and they have failed, it’s time to come work with me.”

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