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Golfers Elbow
A Treatment of Golfers Elbow
A Treatment for a Golfers Elbow Injury.
Golfers elbow, is an extremely painful condition that affects thousands of golfers and causes misery when trying to hit a golf ball. When accompanied with tennis elbow - Lateral epicondylitis, as mine was, straightening the right arm at and through impact became an incredibly painful experience.
Hoping that it would go away on its own I delayed finding a cure for almost twelve months. Reasoning that I used my hands and arms a lot every day in club making and through hitting golf balls, I always felt that I would be immune to any aches in the arms. How wrong I was.
At first the pain in the right elbow was slight; it only came on  after taking a deep divot or when playing on hard ground during the summer. But it gradually worsened every time I played or practised over the next few months. I even rested from playing golf for around two months in the hope that rest would bring a cure. It did not. The first time that I hit a golf ball after the break, the pain was terrible just like a knife being slammed into my right elbow at impact. The joy of playing golf was non existent; I just had to do something about finding a cure.
My first step was a visit to a qualified Sports Physiotherapist. He told me that he worked on all types of sporting injuries and my Golfers elbow would soon be cured.
After the first visit he was correct, the condition did feel a lot easier. He first manipulated around the elbow with his hands then covered the affected area with a green gel and gave 10 minutes of ultra sound. The next morning the elbow felt much easier to extend without too much pain.
This was followed after seven days with another visit for the same Golfers elbow treatment. I explained how much better my arm felt and he said it would be a good idea to fit in a further visit in three days time which would help it to heal more quickly, which I did. What a mistake! The morning after the third visit the whole of my arm was in agony, bent or straight the pain was unbearable. Trying to swing a golf club was impossible; it hurt so much just trying to put my shirt on. Now I had to resort to pain killers to try and dull the ache.
I was due to go for my fourth and final visit four days later on the Saturday morning. When Saturday arrived my arm was still incredibly painful but as the Physio’s practise was near to my office I called in to explain that I did not want any more of his 'Golfers elbow treatment' until the pain had subsided. Undeterred he said that maybe he had rushed my treatment with too many visits too close together but he would give me a few minutes of ultra sound there and then, for which he charged the full ½ hour rate, even though I protested he said it would help to heal the elbow. It did not. It took three weeks for the pain to go from my arm but I was still back to square one with an aching elbow when playing golf. So I decided to visit my Doctor in the hope of a cure.
My Doctor made arrangements to visit with the Practice physiotherapist. Six visits were planned. The Golfers elbow treatment was again via a few minutes on the Ultra Sound Machine with gel smeared on the elbow as before but without thank goodness any manipulation around the joint. This treatment made absolutely no difference to the condition whatsoever. Just a waste of everyone’s time and effort as far as I was concerned and I still had a painful elbow.
Now I was getting desperate, I knew that the condition was not going away on its own. So I decided to try acupuncture. Others had said how it had worked for them and so I made an appointment to visit Lynn Spence at the Telford Clinic of Acupuncture.
The first visit was a most enjoyable experience. Lynn is a very  relaxing person and after I described the area of pain she said that I had both Golfers and Tennis elbow. She then set about inserting the needles into the appropriate positions around the affected area also in my right hand and also in my right foot. She then positioned a Far Infrared lamp, fitted with a mineral base insert, close to the elbow to let the gentle warmth do its healing for the next 20 minutes.
I felt a real benefit to the arm after the third visit. At the end of the sixth and final visit my elbow felt as new. Hitting golf balls once again was a pain free experience.
 That all took place in August of 2005, a year on my elbow is totally pain free. I would emphatically recommend a course of acupuncture to anyone suffering with Golfers elbow injury or tennis elbow or Lateral epicondylitis.
Roger Morton
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