I talked about ordering something called a Flexbar and using it to help me stretch and strengthen my elbow so that I would be healed and golf-ready by golf season in Canada.
Things were going well. They really were. My elbow was feeling better by the day and certainly by the week.
Then I started swimming and that seemed to aggravate it. Not a ton but I could feel it. It would be tender or sore for a few days after a swim, it would recover and then I would swim again.
Then I started using the erg machine at my new fitness centre which wasn't making my elbow any happier. Add some upper body weight training on top of that and things were no longer improving the way they had been back in early March.
Did I mention that I have started colouring? Which, as it turns out, requires my right hand. It didn't hurt during the colouring sessions but it would be tender for hours afterwards.
So on Tuesday night, when I headed out for my first ladies' league 9-hole golf game, I was a little worried about my elbow.
I gripped the club in my hand - no pain in my elbow.
I lifted the club - pain in my elbow.
I swung the club - pain in my elbow.
So much for my ambitious goal of being completely healed by golf season.
I've added some strengthening exercises and some stretching exercises to my routine. I no longer lift anything heavier than a toothbrush with my right hand and I'm icing and resting as much as I can. No swimming this week and no fitness centre either.
Hopefully I can get it to calm down enough to resume the healing process.
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