I had wrists tendinitis, patella femoral syndrome (knee injury), back injury. Well almost every joints of my body hehe. But don't worry it's all healing.
However, I recently started to train myself in Boxing (Muay Thai and american boxing). Yesterday I was just doing some shadow punching (with gloves) and I started feeling something in my right elbow. I specified with gloves because I think the weight it adds to my arms makes it more difficult for the elbow. The punches I was doing were those you do with a punching ball, so doing circles with my forearms. One hand circling in, the other circling out and hitting the target (but I had no target). Those circle punches seem harmful for elbows, aren't they? So next time I'll try slower but I'm still afraid I could get some injuries to my elbows. Like a tennis elbow. Could you give me some advice to avoid elbow injuries? What's the cause of tennis elbows, for example? I'm also practicing sword techniques and again elbow movements are really frequent. How to avoid injuries?
Thanks
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If you feel it in your forearm,it's tennis elbow.A strain usually caused by having your arm bent for prolonged periods of work(holding a tennis raquet,sawing wood,etc).
If you feel it on the inside of your upper arm this is called golfers elbow(in the UK anyway) and is caused by having your arm straight for prolonged periods of work(golf swing,hyper extending a straight punch,hyper extending a military press,etc).
Both of these are tendon strains around the joint though,not damage to the joint itself.If you're feeling it in the joint that could also be from hyper extension.
My advice would be to only hit solid objects(but ensure they have some "give").When hitting something isn't possible(like sword forms) don't fully straighten the arm.
Dragon.
If you feel it on the inside of your upper arm this is called golfers elbow(in the UK anyway) and is caused by having your arm straight for prolonged periods of work(golf swing,hyper extending a straight punch,hyper extending a military press,etc).
Both of these are tendon strains around the joint though,not damage to the joint itself.If you're feeling it in the joint that could also be from hyper extension.
My advice would be to only hit solid objects(but ensure they have some "give").When hitting something isn't possible(like sword forms) don't fully straighten the arm.
Dragon.