playing with pain

[zeerobb]

Any advice, home remedies on playing with sore elbow/shoulder? I see Avery Jenkins wears a wrap on his forearm, I'm going to start using one. Right now I have a shooters sleave, but its not tight enough or supportive enough. The shoulder is a whole different thing, 2 tylenol and streching before a round helps. but it really starts acting up after the 1st 9.

 

[grotto]

Don't know your throwing style but your problem may be form. I used to get serious shoulder and elbow pain because I was simply strong arming my throws, I wasn't using my body to it's fullest. Slow and easy gained me a lot more accuracy, distance and less pain.

I'm one of those old guys, so before I play, it's two Motrin, some stretching and remembering to relax and throw easy without a lot of tension in my arm. Too tight a grip in the reach back can also add to arm tension.

 

[Monocacy]

Don't know your throwing style but your problem may be form. I used to get serious shoulder and elbow pain because I was simply strong arming my throws, I wasn't using my body to it's fullest. Slow and easy gained me a lot more accuracy, distance and less pain.
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That exactly matches my experience ^^^^

 

[oppyland]

Agree with the above - form helps a lot - but I still have shoulder and elbow pain (more from years of ball sports than DG). Ibuprofen seems to dull the pain.

Make sure to let us know if the wrap helps.

 

[PWaggoner]

It says his main throwing style is lhfh. Which I don't get pain ever in my shoulder from. It used to hurt my elbow throwing fh but fixed that.

Are you hurt or is disc golf hurting you?

 

[bballr4567]

If its hurting then something is wrong. DO NOT PLAY THROUGH PAIN!!!! Its the easiest way to injure yourself even more. Find out what is going wrong!

 

[zeerobb]

yeah, I'm LHFH, and use a LHBH on mids. I play 3-5 times a week, and yes, its from playing disc golf. I just picked up a tennis elbow wrap, I understand about using the body more and not strong arming the throws, but I have lower back issues and I'm not that flexable in that area, so your right, I do use my arm more than anything. I hate to cut down on the disc golf, but I may have to.

 

[bballr4567]

I have lower back issues (facet arthritis from L3 to S1 as well as my S1 is becoming unfused and Im 31) as well but if your technique is correct you loose a TINY bit of rotation due to it.

Trying using your hips more.

All in all, get out to the field to practice on the rotation. Also, find some basic yoga exercises that strengthen and loosen that area. It takes time to get the muscles to release but it really does help. I've added about 20-25ft on my drives from just doing yoga the past month or so.

 

[DavidSauls]

If its hurting then something is wrong. DO NOT PLAY THROUGH PAIN!!!! Its the easiest way to injure yourself even more. Find out what is going wrong!

I'm generally in agreement.

It depends a bit on what kind of pain, how severe, and how long it's been going on.

I won't recount my sad story, but "playing through the pain" led me to surgery and losing most of two years.

 

[PWaggoner]

I'd try and eliminate any part of the body that brings pain and slow down. Maybe try and throw like this (hyzerunibomber):

http://www.heavydisc.com/2014/11/right-pec-and-some-grip-answers.html?m=1

I like that yoga suggestion too. And try hips that's your biggest power but if it hurts your back I'd try just weight shift, shoulder rotation and good timing. I'm still a younglin' with no damage to the body so I don't know much about that sort of thing. All I can do is say don't hurt yourself

 

[bobmcnelly]

yeah, I'm LHFH, and use a LHBH on mids. I play 3-5 times a week, and yes, its from playing disc golf. I just picked up a tennis elbow wrap, I understand about using the body more and not strong arming the throws, but I have lower back issues and I'm not that flexable in that area, so your right, I do use my arm more than anything. I hate to cut down on the disc golf, but I may have to.

I had a compression fracture in my lower back from snowboarding, and it required surgery. I throw LHBH with decent form at best and feel almost no pain after 36 holes. If I were you I would just try every different form you can think of until you can play at least 18 holes without pain.

 

[zeerobb]

Its a "sore" or achy kind of pain, and its off and on really, depending on how I move my arm..I don't think it will be permanent but I do need to change my throwing style and do more backhands off the tee. I just love to play..I'm in good physical health, I hike, bike and do p90x and have had sore legs and muscles from all these activities, I played softball when I was younger and remember this elbow/shoulder soreness from those days of throwing softballs all day. Just wondering if anyone else had this when first starting out and if it gets better as time goes on or should I stop and heal up. Played with the wrap today and it felt okay, gives you a little more comfort to throw.

 

[PWaggoner]

When I first started id be really sore in my muscles. Now not so much, four games have me sore a little the next day.

The big problems came when I started throwing further. Then I started hurting my shoulder and elbow rhbh. But I have that fixed now. Make sure you follow threw

 

[DavidSauls]

We used to have a rule of thumb in baseball---no idea if it was valid, but nevertheless---that pain in the muscle was okay, pain in the joint was a warning.

If the pain is of a mild, intermittent, "I'm playing through it anyway" variety, I will chime in that elbow pain is sometimes caused by tight ligaments in the wrist, which can be helped by stretching. Look it up. And, more generally and surprisingly, that there are joint pains in the shoulders, knees, and elsewhere related to tightness that the correct stretches can help.

On the other hand, I had 3 twinges of pain in my shoulder yesterday and stopped playing to give it a rest, rather than push it. Pushing it and being wrong is a place I don't want to go.

 

[fordfairlane78]

Hey man didn't know your arm was bothering you this bad. Your more than welcome to try all that blizzard plastic I've been collecting slowly. ... Does anybody here know if lighter weight discs would help? I play with the op by the way. ...I am also new to the game & also a south paw but I have gotten to a point where I'm about 50/50 between bh & fh. I started out fh.

As Chris Rock would say"rub some tussin' on it!"

 

[grotto]

I tried some blizzard plastic to practice throwing side arm because of an old injury and it actually hurt more to throw the lighter weights. Ended up just taking it easier with my regular discs.

 

[UncleBrother2001]

I heard those copper compress sleeves are good for elbows and knees or whatever hurts you.

I plan on getting 2 of them for my left ankle and left leg. I've got a pretty bad injury myself and plan on giving them a try.

 

[PWaggoner]

I tried some blizzard plastic to practice throwing side arm because of an old injury and it actually hurt more to throw the lighter weights. Ended up just taking it easier with my regular discs.

Are you extending the elbow? That's what gives you tennis elbow supposedly. A lot of peeps I know with arm injuries keep that elbow tucked and it never really goes past the body at all/much at all.

 

[JedV]

It might also pay to listen to your body and take a bit of a break. My experience with Tennis & Golfers Elbow changed the way I look at DG. The pain was effecting my day to day life, so I had to do something about it.

A lot of my injury was caused by bad form. I was gripping the disc too tightly throughout the throw instead of just momentarily at the hit. Staying loose was the key.

I wore a Serola Gel Arc arm brace when I did get back to playing, and it served me really well. It displaced the friction on my tendons and allowed them to heal a little. I periodically get a twinge in my elbow so it's not 100% these days so I need to be careful.

Don't take your health for granted. Chronic injuries are not worth it.

 

[zeerobb]

Hey man didn't know your arm was bothering you this bad. Your more than welcome to try all that blizzard plastic I've been collecting slowly. ... Does anybody here know if lighter weight discs would help? I play with the op by the way. ...I am also new to the game & also a south paw but I have gotten to a point where I'm about 50/50 between bh & fh. I started out fh.

As Chris Rock would say"rub some tussin' on it!"

Yeah, it was hurtin pretty good when we played that last nine in newton. I was out doing fieldwork with the backhand today and not having any issues,except my backhand sucks! but when I go to forehand I get a sharp pain on the tendon just below the elbow/forearm area.so I'm going to have to go backhand for awhile.