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)

 

[Rhinoceros]

I have tendonitis in my arm too, just had a really bad bout of it. The thing that helped me most is massage, I did it constantly, whenever I could. I flex and relax the forearm while rubbing and pushing into the sore area with my opposite hand. It hurts, but helps over the long run. Ice also helps. Get some styrafoam cups, fill part way with water, freeze, then tear away the top of the cup until the ice is exposed. Apply this to the sore area a couple of times per day.

Rhino

 

[natural-mike]

Glad to see I'm not alone.

I toasted my tendons with Heavy Barbell curls and the Captains of Crush Grippers. I cannot rotate my palm to face the celing to perform a barbell curl, if I try to curl just the bar I double over in pain, I have gotten to the point where sometimes I cant even close my hand.

I;ve been doing EZ Bar curls and it really alleviates the stress, but I dont feel much in the whole of the biceps, I feel more of the outer head working.

Thats when I discovered.......ahhh dumbells, Try dumbell curls both hands at the same time, now I am back in business.

Peace,

Natural Mike

 

[cheesePuss]

thanks natural-mike.....I have been hitting hammer curls and reverse curls and after a few weeks 90% of the pain is gone....I'll try an all dumbell routine this week.
I'll let ya know how it works out

 

[ThickLEE]

Its not tendonitis bro, you said it hurts on the outer bone in your forearm right? It feels like shin splints but in your forearms? Am I right? I have had tendonitis for years and it is in your elbow and may make your forearms hurt really bad but it is not a sharp pain like you described. Its a pain that you almost cant explain but it aches really bad. I have had the sharp pains like you described before and it hurts, it feels like shin splints in your forearm along that bone. I laid off curls with a straight bar for awhile andwent light when I came back and it went away.
If you had tendonitis hammer curls would irritate it the worst.

 

[cheesePuss]

ThickLee....you are exactly right.....at first I thought I had weak bones or something.....felt like the bone was gunna snap! I wonder if it has to do with the way your built or what?

 

[natural-mike]

I have toyed with the fact that it is forearm splints that I have as well, if your asking why I dont go to the doctor? because I don't need a 100 pound weakling doctor who doesnt work out to tell me, I should lay off, I know when to lay off, in fact I am pretty sure we all know when our bodies yell "time out".

What ever it is my good man, work around it, find another exercise or a different angle to wrok with.

The way I look at it is, if you can Bench , Squat and Deadlift, your doing OK.

Peace brothers,

Natural Mike

 

[tigertat]

I had the same problem and it did seam to be from a lack in forarm strength. After working on this and strengthing my forarms, I've used wrist wraps for only straight bar curls. This has worked for me anyways.