Just wondering if anyone has a cure for tennis elbow. I’ve been to chiropractor and using a brace on forearm for months and it seems to be getting worse. Looking for new ideas or miracle cures you may have found. Researched the web and King Brand BFST has a wrap that stimulates blood flow, good or bad I don’t know. Looking for help. Setting he hook or netting fish is unbearable.
I have the same problem and tried the brace that wraps around your forearm by the elbow.
Didn’t work for me. Went to the Doc and he found i had a vitamin D deficiency. Got on some boosted up vitamin D pills and within a month things got a whole lot better. I know another guy who had the same problem and his Doc told him the same thing. He’s alot better now too. Not sure if this was just coincidence but it’s worth a try for you
My walleye elbow is just about gone now. Came on strong early last winter. Was spending a lot of time casting cranks. Think one issue was using the wring rod for this and having to work my elbow to much. Over the last 6 months I just kept using a elbow band and massaging the muscles in the area to break up the scar tissue.
Had a post on this last winter I called “Walleye Elbow”. Lots of good reply’s.
Now I think Im dealing with “Tiller Shoulder” on the other arm. 
I had the same thing. Just took a long time (like a year or so) to finally get better. I went to a sports medicine guy even though it wasn’t sports related and he had me do some daily exercises with a light weight (or you could use resistance bands) where you slowly create pressure. That seemed to help after awhile. So I’d say check with a physicial therapist or sports medicine type person; perhaps through your family doctor. Mayo has developed, I think, a new treatment for severe cases as well. This is a general informational piece about it: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tennis-elbow/DS00469
The bands/wraps, etc., didn’t really do much for me.
Time for me. It took 1-2 years for mine to heal after hurting it. I thought it would never heal. I did go in for 2 cortizone shots that helped some and may have lead to a speedier recovery.
Get an exercise program from a physical therapist and DO the exercises (most people that go to a PT don’t do the exercises.)
In the meantime, try switching the handles on your spinning reels to the other side so that you’re holding your rod with the other hand.
Tendonitis is nasty and for me it took a oombination of rest, exercise, and stretching to get over my rotator cuff injury. If you haven’t used it, try Aleve (Naproxin) for a pain reliever – it lasts a lot longer than Advil and I get much better results.
Good luck!
Dan
After two years of dealing with it, I ended up finally having to have surgery on the right elbow which was painful but cured that side. They performed a Nirschl procedure on me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTBdaUGDFzE
The left side is still problematic at times but not to the point I can’t deal with it.
I am an Athletic Trainer and when we have cases of tennis elbow we do a technique called grastons. It will provide some immediate relief but I am not going to lie……it is PAINFUL while being done. You will bruise it will hurt for a few days but with this and some rehab and treatments as far as ultrasounds it will get better. You can see if your doc will write you a script for some P.T. for some iontophoresis(injection of a steroid through electrical stimulation directly to the affected area) may also help but it can get spendy with all of those PT visits. There is also a technique called A.R.T. this is also quite painful but another option if no one around is graston certified. If you would like more information PM me and I can try and help you out with a at home program you can try first.
Montemerancy cherry juice helped with some of my joint issues. Shot of it a day, took a couple weeks to kick in but made it gradually go away. Don’t use it anymore buy may be worth trying.
Had the same problem several years ago. It was brought on by excessive jig fishing for eyes. I didn’t tell the doc, but he told me I would have to stop whatever was causing the inflamation if I could. I et him know why it flared and he understood why that was not going to happen so I went thru therapy and the injection of a steroid through electrical stimulation as mentioned in a previous response. That and time solved it. But understand it can and I have had it come back if you continue irritating it (fishing). But when it starts to bother I change my fishing style – trolling vs. jigging. Sorry, but giving up fishing is not really an option. 
My vote is for checking your Vit D level or easier start taking Vit D3. Can’t hurt and easy cheap solution if it works.
I hear you abster! I’ve got it too! Nasty stuff, isn’t it? For a whole year, I went to a PT 3 time’s a week! While it felt good during the process, it did nothing to rid me of the malady! I finally got rid of it when I went to a different therapist and she used cold therapy on it! First she would wrap the affected area with some wet paper towel. Thenshe would wrap a gel freezeing pack over that. Finally she wrapped everything with a heavy towel. For the first couple minute’s your skin would burn like hell! After you got past that, you got to spend the next 15 minute’s blissfully pain-free! All you would feel was numbness. After everything was removed, your body’s first reaction is to warm up the cold area. It does this with increased blood flow to the area. Which is Nature’s way of helping you heal! Some of the pain would be gone but not all of it. In between session’s it helped a lot if I kept my arm in a sling whenever possible. I can’t remember how long it took before I was finally pain free. At least I found a way and I sure hope you will as well! Good luck! 
DIRTBALL2 
Another option is to change the reel handle to other side. Baitcasters obviously can’t switch, but its surprising how quickly you adapt to the other side. Didn’t take more than a couple outings for myself when I had to switch when I got a boat and couldn’t control the boat and rig it with my left hand. 
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My walleye elbow is just about gone now. Came on strong early last winter. Was spending a lot of time casting cranks. Think one issue was using the wring rod for this and having to work my elbow to much. Over the last 6 months I just kept using a elbow band and massaging the muscles in the area to break up the scar tissue.
Had a post on this last winter I called “Walleye Elbow”. Lots of good reply’s.
Now I think Im dealing with “Tiller Shoulder” on the other arm.
We feel terrible for you Mike. No, really. It must be hell on a guy to be fishing so much that repetitive use injuries threaten to cut short his otherwise brilliant career. 
Jeepers creepers, what’s next? A “Help! I’ve been using my Trouser Trout too much.” thread?
Grouse
I’ve had it in both elbows and I got cortisone shots in each. Its worked for me and I throw bass baits all summer. I haven’t had a problem since. I tried all the wraps and therapy stuff and it just didn’t help. Insurance covered it so I don’t really know expensive it is.
thanks for all the info fellas.
Win the lottery, I’m 54 started having the same problem when I was 29 been to half a dozen physical therapist that many doctors and they say to rest it. Da, I need to work. Ice it at night make ice bigger than an ice cube and rub it on there till its numb. good luck
Been dealing with it too since May. Been going to a therapist that massages it for about 15 minutes and then the patch with electrical stimulation and stretching exercises. Has helped some but the recovery is sllllooowwwww!!!!! 
SUCKS GETTING OLD DOESN’T IT GUYS. Maybe the IDO gods can start a new forum titled SUCKS GETTING OLD for the aches and pains of life. My wife thinks I just use my elbow bother me excuse to get out of work around the house. Great info to try I’ve just been living with it.
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