How can I cure my elbow bursitis with no drugs / no doc visit?
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Are you sure it's bursitis?  Is it red, swollen and warm?  With your hands hanging at your sides and palms facing forward, which side of your elbow hurts (inner/medial or outer/lateral)?  You may just have either medial or lateral epicondylitis which can be caused by either contracted/tight flexor or extensor muscles of the forearm.  Stretching and massage are useful for the treatment of these two conditions as long as it is not in the acute stages of injury.
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Sounds like you may have injured the sciatic nerve that runs from your buttocks to your heal.  Only rest and cortisone shots will help
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Ice will reduce the swelling and the pain, but the best way to heal yourself is plenty of rest to allow it to recover (if Possible)
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Rest your elbow. Take NSAIDs (like Ibuprofen). Warm up and strech before you play, wrap it while playing. Ice it afterwards. Repeat. Try playing for a while with your non-dominant hand for awhile.
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if you can, wear more comfortable shoes - also those insoles will help with your balance and circulation, also cut back on salt products a bit and maintain balanced light meals, fast foods tend to add hidden salt and diet pop's. if it continues, might want to go to a Dr to check for low iron etc as this will also cause swelling. After getting home, after being on your feet all day, soak them in hot water and then raise them up and allow the natural healing happen, it will make you also feel better and also another method is to lay down on your left side instead of right side.\nbest wishes to you -
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Ice will give temporary relief.\nHeat will give temporary relief.\nDrugs may help, better living through chenistry, LOL.\nWhat type of injury do you have?
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There are several things you can try.\n\nAnti-inflammatory medications like Ibuprofen or Naproxen may be helpful, taken with food.\n\nFill an empty soda bottle with water and freeze.  With a sock on, roll your heel over the ice bottle for 10-15 minutes, 3-4 times a day.\n\nNEVER go barefoot!  NOt even to the bathroom in the middle of the night.  Always have good supportive shoes on.\n\nStretching your calf muscle may help, particularly if you have a tight achilles to begin with.  Face a wall, and place your plans on it.  With the affected leg further behind you, lean into the wall, keeping your back leg straight and the heel on the floor.  Then stretch with your knee slightly bent.\n\nIf these methods don't work, see your health care provider.  A stronger anti-inflammatory medicine may be prescribed, he or she may evaluate you for orthotics, or supports that go into your shoes.  Physical therapy may be helpful, and some people even have a cortisone injection into the heel.
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Absolutly no heat.  No hurry to go to the Dr.  Not much we can do till swelling is controlled.  OTC anti-inflammatories for swelling and pain.  Sorry about the injury.
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It's a long process I am going through the same thing.  Take a lot of IB profen it's good for inflammation.  Go to the gym and work your quads, eat bannanas.  Lay on your back put your hurt leg in the air and try to bend it down as much as possible.  It's going to hurt you have to try to get over the pain.  Every time you bend it try to make it go lower and lower.  This will help but you have to work with it and do everything your told to do.
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Without medication will be tough if it is truly an infection, but drinking more clear fluids and a humidifier may help.  If you go with over the counter type medicine, try sudafed, afrin, and a pain reliever.  It may require an antibiotic though :(
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The best way to relieve tennis elbow is to stop doing anything that irritates your arm — a simple step for the weekend tennis player, but not as easy for the manual laborer, office worker, or professional athlete.\n\nThe most effective conventional and alternative treatments for tennis elbow have the same basic premise: Rest the arm until the pain disappears, then massage to relieve stress and tension in the muscles, and exercise to strengthen the area and prevent re-injury. If you must go back to whatever caused the problem in the first place, be sure to warm up your arm for at least 5 to 10 minutes with gentle stretching and movement before starting any activity. Take frequent breaks.\n\nConventional medicine offers an assortment of treatments for tennis elbow, from drug injections to surgery, but the pain will never go away completely unless you stop stressing the joint. Re-injury is inevitable without adequate rest.\n\nFor most mild to moderate cases of tennis elbow, aspirin or ibuprofen will help address the inflammation and the pain while you are resting the injury, and then you can follow up with exercise and massage to speed healing.\n\nFor stubborn cases of tennis elbow your doctor may advise corticosteroid injections, which dramatically reduce inflammation, but they cannot be used long-term because of potentially damaging side effects.\n\nAnother attractive option for many sufferers, especially those who prefer to not ingest medication orally, is the application of an appropriate and effective topical anti-inflammatory. CT Cream with A.C.P. was specifically designed to reduce inflammation and does so by taking advantage of well known elements Arnica, Choline, Pyridoxine and Vitamin B6. Researched, formulated and introduced recently by Dr. Ying Lee, CT Cream has proven to be extremely successful in treating inflammation related ailments such as epicondylitis, tendonitis, bursitis & carpal tunnel syndrome.\n\nIf rest, anti-inflammatory medications, and a stretching routine fail to cure your tennis elbow, you may have to consider surgery, though this form of treatment is rare (fewer than 3 percent of patients). One procedure is for the tendon to be cut loose from the epicondyle, the rounded bump at the end of the bone, which eliminates stress on the tendon but renders the muscle useless. Another surgical technique involves removing so-called granulated tissue in the tendon and repairing tears.\n\nEven after you feel you have overcome a case of tennis elbow, be sure to continue babying your arm. Always warm up your arm for 5 to 10 minutes before starting any activity involving your elbow. And if you develop severe pain after use anyway, pack your arm in ice for 15 to 20 minutes and call your doctor.
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Disclaimer:  Do not perform these exercises unless cleared by an MD or PT.  Do not perform these exercises if they increase your pain or cause other symptoms to occur.\n\nPrayer stretch:\nKneel on your hands and knees.  Keeping your hands where they are, sit back on your heels (keep your head down).  You should feel this stretch along the mid back and the sides of the torso.  To concentrate on one side only, walk your hands over to the left and then the right.\n\nGenie stretch:\nSeated or standing, hold your arms out in front of you and grab your elbows with the opposite hands.  Gently pull as if pulling elbows apart.  You should feel this stretch across the mid back and shoulder blades.\n\nDoorway stretch:\nStand in an open doorway with your forearms against the frame.  Put one foot through the doorway and lean forward.  You should feel the stretch across the chest and shoulders.  To change this stretch, you can lower or raise the height of your arms.\n\nChair Rotation stretch:\nSeated in a chair with arms, turn your torso as if trying to see behind you.  You can put your hands on the arms or back of chair for overpressure.  You should feel this stretch on the sides of your torso.\n\nNeck stretch:\nPlace your right hand behind your head and bend your head to the left.  You can place your left hand on your head to apply GENTLE overpressure.  Also try this while looking down to the left.  Repeat to other side.  You should feel this stretch along the side and back of the neck.\n\nAll stretches should be performed 3-4 repetitions, 20-30 seconds, 2-3 times a day.
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It sounds like it might be a tendon issue.  Use RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.  If it hasn't started to feel at least a little better within a couple of days, make sure and go to the doctor, you might have to be splinted or use crutches for awhile.  Good luck!
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had it, virtally same as tennis elbow, brace just below elbow will help but not cure.don't laugh but go to a pro and find out what is wrong with his swing!
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Keep moving if you can, even if it is painful.  Some types of therapeutic massage therapy can be helpful because it helps with lymphatic drainage; toxins can build up in your joints, making the arthritis worse.  Also, I would recommend that you drink A LOT of water.  One more thing...I don't know if it's true, but both of my parents have arthritis and swear that it is MUCH better when they don't eat potatoes.  None of these things will "cure" you, but combined, they may help.
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Since you are a  teenager it may be hormones.\nAcne is also link to bacterial infections.  An antibiotic will help majorly.\n\n\nProactiv worked for me as far as OTC goes. \nDifferingel works wonders but you need a prescription.
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It could be bursitis, an inflammation of the bursae( a fluid filled protective sac that reduces friction in the joints). You may end up having to see your Dr. but, try Motrin and rest, ice (20 min) and 20 min later heat (no more then 20 min) several times a day. But if the pain persists see your doctor.