May have injured my left elbow
July 31, 2005So I’ve been nursing a strain of some sort in my left elbow the last couple weeks. I think it’s an RSI “event”, I’ve been doing an awful lot of typing lately. Because my new role requires communicating with a whole lot more people than before, an order of magnitude more. So I’ve been e-mailing more than ever, which more than compensates for the fact that I’ve been writing much less code than ever.
I’ve been wearing a lycra brace on the left elbow, to keep it warm and supported. It’s been feeling quite good so today I thought I’d do a back workout at the gym without the brace. That’s where I may have injured something.
THe minute I tried to do a lat pulldown I could feel the pain shoot thru the left elbow. Nothing popped or anything like that, but definitely painful. Weirdly, when I did rows the elbow felt fine. So it’s not the entire elbow, it must be a particular tendon involved in the specific action of a lat pulldown that’s still injured.
If it doesn’t heal up by next week I’m gonna have to make an appointment with my doctor to see what’s going on. In the meantime, no lat pulldowns even with the brace on.
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