Quick Dr. NS Help

no_steeze

no_steeze

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i know what a doctor is, just tell me if i should go to one or if this will go away. i'd go to the trainer at school but i'm on spring break and the only person would be the full out orthopedist so it'd need to be worthy

so i skied all winter at school and wasn't really lifting at all and on saturday i went to the gym and after doing cardio and some abs i decided to lift a little. i did some generic pull ups, lunges with weights, forearm stuff, and a bunch of sets of 45 lb curls with a curling bar. clearly i didn't warm up well enough or something because the past few days i have not been able to extend my arms fully and i'm getting a shit load of chronic pain on my inner elbow.

to the touch my lower outer bicep is incredibly sensitive along with my outer upper forearm muscle. my arm is only comfortable between 45 and 90 degrees of bend at the elbow, either more bent or extended is extremely painful in those same spots and i can't really even do it. nothing looks that swollen or bruised but i literally cannot extend my arms.

SO, i have done a good amount of lifting before and i know what it's like to be sore after lifting, i'm not an enormous pussy, but this is different and significantly more painful. i haven't lifted since then, i just erged a bunch yesterday and did nothing today, nothing strenuous on my arms, but the pain is getting worse. my strength is only diminished by the pain; i don't feel weaker, but it reeeally fucking hurts

so tell me if i'm a pussy and should wait it out or if i should go to a doctor. once again, i have been sore from lifting plenty of times, but nothing like this, just concerned it might be more than just soreness
 
your soreness could be from both lifting and urging. i know that when i wrestled, i would lift in the morning and row at night and my arms would feel the same way then next day. give it a couple days, if it doesnt feel any better, then maybe go to a doctor. but you'll probably be fine in a couple days.
 
my arms were sore before rowing though, then felt a lot better, then i woke up this morning and couldn't even move my left arm
 
Stretched the tendons a bit too much? I had something similar a few years back, went away after a few awful days.
 
maybe, it is quite miserable

its not the bicep tendon but it might be something else

the weight wasnt too heavy though, i even put less on because i knew i hadnt done it in a while
 
i dont remember how long you said its been since you lifted but if its been more than say 3 days i would go get it checked out cuz something could be seriously wrong
 
Stretched a tendon in your inner elbow, maybe don't use an EZ-bar. They're absolutely horrid for those sorts of injuries. If you extend your arm fully does it bow to the left or right? If so you should only be doing stuff with dumbells because using a bar of any sort is going to stretch that tendon and put you in more and more pain.
 
everyone seems to have given good advice, and I wouldn't worry too much, it sounds to me like you just hadn't been using those muscles/tendons and the sudden workout was too much strain. this happened to me a while back when I hadn't been playing hockey all summer and then once tryouts started, I got wicked pain in my hands. it went away though.
 
the pain was to the same magnitude and in exactly the same areas before i rowed

im sure it didnt help but it didnt cause it
 
arms but it goes through my elbow, it's lower bicep and upper forearm but nothing within the elbow joint, it kinda skips the elbow but all the pain is concentrated down around it
 
i was gonna say if its like the tendons in the bone, like bending it and shit when it hurts it could have been tendonitis. i had it when i played baseball and i pitched in my elbow and wrist
 
ye didnt really read it, but you should do a really quick warm then lift right away then do cardio and abs/medacineball
its most important to have proper form when your lifting, and if you lift once your all tiered then your lifts will be shit and your resaults will be shit
ye I dono, my baseball team has a couple personal trainers and they always make us do lifts first
 
idk if you did this or not but before i do any lift i do a set or two with just the bar, or in the case of the lunges without any weight, before i do any sort of weight just to get my muscles that i am going to be using streached out enough to not get hurt, i have found that this really helps with recovery time for muscle soreness. once again im not sure if this is relevent to your pain but could help in the future.
 
yeah i think i just have a bad case of DOMS, i mean i always get a little sore after a new exercise plan or after doing abs but i've never been this sore before, just why i'd be worried there's more to it
 
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