I play volleyball and hyperextend my elbow, is there a brace or something I can buy to prevent this??
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They have neoprene (wetsuit material) sleeves that you can slip over your elbow. Tennis players often use it for tennis elbow. It helps to keep it warm and compresses your elbow. You can play with it on and it will help keep your elbow from hyperextending. You can pick it up from sporting goods stores. Try stretching your forearms out before and after playing. With your arm straight and parllel to the floor, fingers up and palms out, pull your fingers back towards you. Repeat again with your fingers pointing down, then with your thumb pointing down. This often helps stretch out the muscles and ligaments near the elbow..
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The best thing to do is tape your ankle before every game. Othe protections wil reduce you area of movement so it's not that good.\n\nBut taping your ankle won't prevent you from severe sprains tho, it'll just diminish them.
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It will get worse, much worse.  My track coach had me do a trick that helped a ton.  Take your shoes and socks off and sit in a sandbox at a playground.  Then extend your feet in front of you and stick them in the soft sand.  Then try and squeeze your feet so you are trying to curl your toes to your heel.  Do a few sets of 15 - 20 of this every day if you can.  It made my shin splints go completely away.
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A good sports bra helps keeps things under control a little bit.  You could use an Ace bandage and bind them down but that's probably not the best idea if you're playing sports.
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stretching doesnt help u jump higher, it losens u up before a game so u wont pull anything and that way ull be able to jump higher right at the beginning of the game or practice...if u work out ur calves alot and ur thighs also u will jump higher quicker.  I could only dunk a tennis ball at the beginning of the school year and now i can dunk a volleyball (im only 5'9).  working out my calves has helped the most
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consult your doctor.. for curvatures less than 20 exercises may do and the best exercise is swimming others go to a chriopractic practitioner.. >20- 40 some doctors advice to have a brace..  >  40 surgery is adviced
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First thing is first...look at your arm when you throw (The easiest way to do this is to video tape yourself and watch it). What you want to watch for is where your elbow is in comparison to your shoulder. If your elbow drops below your shoulder, that is why you elbow hurts. When you elbow drops below the shoulder, it puts undo stress on the ligaments and tendons there. What you want is for you elbow to be level or slightly higher than your shoulder, but it has to be comfortable for you. You don't want it way stretched out so it's twice as uncomfortable as before.\n\nAnother possibility is if you throw a curve, how do you throw it? Are you using your elbow? Which is hard on younger pitchers (The bones and cartilidge.). You want to be using your wrist for the rotation of the ball, not your elbow.
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Try stretching your arm out for longer than usual. And also warm up slowly before you throw hard. This probably wont heal your arm but it should keep it from getting worse.
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Theres no other way. Im a senior in high school and I made it to states in shot put and in discus, but anyways maybe you would like to try gloves or even mittens but make sure that they are not to thick and good luck
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Well, you should actually use ice or and ice pack because tendonitis, means that then tendons in your elbow are swollen and therefore need ice to reduce the swelling. Heat tends to increase swelling causing more pain even though it will initially feel great. Have you tried Icy Hot, Pain killers, and perhaps putting your elbow in a sling to immobilize it so that it can be rested?
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Tennis elbow is an overuse of the wrist extensor muscles that causes inflammation around the lateral side of the elbow.  I would suggest ice.  There are also straps that you could use that are similar to those used for patellar tendons that will also help relieve the pain.
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im assuming you want it to be better faster because you are involved in an extra curricular activity or sport.  correct?  make sure you wrap it tightly to relieve the pressure.  instead of taking showers, try a hot bath with some bath salts.  when you sleep or sit down, keep it elevated.  ice it constantly.  before going to sleep, move it around and stretch and massage it.  when you think it feels better don't just start running and jumping on it, keep it wrapped till your 100% certain it's healed, if you don't there is a high possibility it will be reinjured again.  Trust me, I know it's tough but it will get better.  I've been a professional dancer and teacher for many years now and I have survived a lot of different injuries.
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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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elbow I guess. What an odd question!
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im a bowler and i had it also.  it doesnt just affect your bowling either, i found it also hurt in things i did at home where your arm had to go in an upward motion.  \nit is tendonitis\nwhat i did totally stopped it and wasnt expensive\n\nat walmart there is an armband in the pharmacy section it has an air pillow in it (i cant remember what it is called) the band goes right below the elbow and the air cushion goes toward the outside of the arm and i wore it everytime i bowled and never had any more problems.\n\nit worked great\nhope this helps
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Stretch!  Be careful not to 'bounce' in your stretches, just hold them.  This helped me immensely.
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i had the same problem about a week ago.i went to the park with my friend and her dad(hes a coach) in about a week all my severs were going over.just remember it takes some time.lift some wieghts to build more muscle to hit it over if thats the problem.and keep your elbow up it helps alot.