If you have Guitar Elbow, don't fret it! Here's how to treat the real, underlying muscular causes of your injury – and keep playing your guitar, whether you have Tennis Elbow, Golfer's Elbow or a wrist or finger tendon injury.
Can you get Tennis or Golfer’s Elbow from playing your guitar? (Or any other stringed instrument?)
Hi, this is Allen Willette with the Tennis Elbow Classroom podcast, and the answer, unfortunately, is YES!
And whether you call it Guitar Elbow, Guitar Tendonitis – OR Guitar Tennis Elbow, I want to help you get off on the right track, understanding and treating your guitar-related pain – or outright injury – the right way.
So, whether it's affecting your strumming or your fretting hand – and whether it's your inner or outer elbow that's hurting – OR perhaps your wrist tendons, stay tuned...
And I'll help you avoid the worst myths, misconceptions and pitfalls that plague musicians with these annoying and potentially disabling injuries.
Let's start with the most common arm injuries seen in guitar and other stringed-instrument players: Tennis and Golfer's Elbow...