Here we are, 3 years after the onset of golfer's elbow and then tennis elbow. Finally, I gave up. Simply gave up. Gave up the idea of ever feeling pain free – it had been so long, I didn’t remember what it felt like anyway. So I decided that I would figure out a way to alleviate it as much as possible but go back to regular activity – rock climbing, tennis, fitness, all the things that made me enjoy life. I got a Theraband, dusted off the FlexBar again, started popping a few Advils every so often when I was having a bad day and occasionally taking out the blood restriction straps. I was ready to live with elbow pain for the rest of my life.
I believe some things happen for a reason. I started going back to the climbing gym and ran into a very old friend who I had no idea was a climber. A very advanced climber, he was starting back up after having had a couple of kids – and developed golfer’s elbow (except it's called climber's elbow)! He was doing what I was doing – Googling and trying desperately to heal. He and I texted things we’ve tried before and one day, he sent me a link to a video made by a European climber to fix climber's elbow.
And that led me to the miracle that allows me to play tennis, climb, work out, live actively all pain-free. Am I cured? I doubt it. But I am pain-free and if pain starts to creep back into my elbow, I know how to squash it in 11 minutes.
One thing Dr. Mike said that made a lot of sense to me. It takes years and years of elbow damage to cross the pain threshold in the case of tennis and golfer's elbow. It’s not that one day your elbow is 100% healthy and pain-free and then the next day something happens to make it painful. Think of the pain threshold as a tipping point. You spend decades damaging the elbow but not crossing the pain threshold. Once you do cross it, it takes work to go below the pain threshold – as it turns out, not as much work as I thought and certainly not months or years and requiring a cessation in all activity.
As I've mentioned, it took me 11 minutes a day for about 10 days and I was able to go below the pain threshold. But this doesn’t mean you’ve undone the decades of damage. Which is why you don’t hear about chronic elbow pain from youngsters or young adults – makes sense right? And that’s okay because your damaged elbow will not fall off or stop working – it’s not ideal but you’re safe and as long as it’s pain free, you now are taking good care of it and you can resume full activity!
So the climber’s blog and video was one of the 4 discoveries. In fact, several of things I tried in the past led to the other 3 – but not in the ways they were originally intended. I used the wrist splint in a novel way. Then I combined a mobility exercise with a stretch and strengthening movement that in 11 minutes a day, allows me to live elbow pain-free.
Ready to find out in seconds my recipe for living without elbow pain? For me, it took about 10 days of the 11 minute work out. You may feel it working right away and may be even luckier than me. If you're ready to find out, click here to jump to the all-natural, 11 minutes a day method that allowed me to go from chronic pain to pain-free in less than 2 weeks.
I wish you a speedy recovery and the only thing I ask is that you let me know how you’re doing – drop me an email anytime. Please – I want to know. Whether you use my method, please let me know. This method has worked for me and everyone I’ve helped but there’s always the chance of that one person with a unique condition or physiology or something else that I could learn from and share with other pain sufferers. Let’s get started!