forearm pain from curling??? help

[cheesePuss]

Hey guys I was wondering if this happens to any of you and if you know what it is and how to fix/prevent it

every once and a while after biceps work I get a sharp intense pain in both of my forearms, just along the outer bone. It still hurts now it's driving me nuts. I have a meet that I'm training for in Nov. and I want to avoid all injury.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[Eno]

If the pain hurts too much to curl, then take a few weeks off. A good exercise that won't put stress on the forearms is weighted pull-ups with palms facing inwards. Actually any bicep motion where your forearms remain relatively stationary should work. I use to have the same problem. Tell me how that works.

 

[cheesePuss]

Thanks Eno, I'll give that a shot

 

[strongone9]

sounds like you are getting tendonitis. take some time off and/or get some anti-inflamatories

 

[Exodus]

i'll bet from your question that you have small joint........(you may have a large frame but you could still have small joints for your frame).............. i had the same thing......... swapped to curls with an ez curl bar and have never had a problem since

 

[DOM]

I've had that before. It is tendonitis. He's right, you need to get on an anti-inflammatory. Aleve works really well for me. Take a few aleve per day spread out in even doses and it'll get better after about a week. Until then, when you are curling use exercises where your palms are not facing the ceiling during the curl because it will keep weight off those tendons. For example, use the curling bar instead of barbell curls, or pull-ups, or hammer curls -- with these exercises you use the other side of your wrist to stabilize the weight.

 

[Drifter]

I partially agree with DOM as I've had this exact problem before. Although its hard to say exactly what the problem is its either tendonitis or a muscle imballance. In my case it was a muscle imballance because after a 2 year layoff I came back with the same problem as before basically ruling out tendonitis. What helped me the most was hammer curls, reverse curls and some forearm work. It took about a month and a half but I now have no problems doing any kind of curls.

Good Luck

 

[cheesePuss]

thanks for all the info guys.....here what I plan to do.
I'm taking 800mgs of Ibuprofen a day.....I'm going to take a good week or so off of most upper body work.....then I plan to come back with arm basic arm movements like hammers, reverse curls.......anything where my wrists are not supinated....then go from there.

what do you guys think?

thanks again for all of those that have responded

 

[elijah]

Had the same thing

I had the same problem for awhile, but the gym I'm at for the summer had a curl bar with handles that spin freely (hard to describe) but you could rotate your wrists while holding the bar. I used that for curls for about a month, and now the pain is gone. I think my forearms just needed to get a bit stronger which this bar will make em

 

[nyper]

Don't squeeze the bar so tight. A good firm grip is enough. It worked for me(along with aleve & kateflan)