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This golf smart insight is understanding tennis and golfer's elbow.

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So obviously if you have some pain, go get it checked out by a medical provider

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I'm going to say that probably four or five times during this video because I

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don't want

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you to watch this video and think you understand everything that's going on to

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your personal

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situation.

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But there's a lot of golfers and we've had a couple of questions about well

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what's going

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on.

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I've been told I have golfer's elbow or tennis elbow.

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What can I do to fix it?

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So I'm going to help you understand kind of what's going on with golfers or

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tennis elbow,

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how to differentiate the two, a couple things that you can work on technically.

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But I want to say it one more time.

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Make sure you go see a qualified medical provider go through the physical

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therapy.

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Make sure that you clean up the imbalance in the forearm as well as the

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imbalance in the

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shoulder and neck that could be contributing to it.

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Okay, so golfers elbow, tennis elbow is an overuse injury of either the ext

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ensor muscles

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which will connect to the outside of the elbow or the flexor muscles which will

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connect to

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the inside of the elbow.

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The easiest way that I've learned to remember is it golfers or is it tennis

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elbow was actually

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from another golf pro Dave Phillips.

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If you look at the inside, this is your medial epicondyle and you'll see that

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even on most

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hairy men, the inside of the forearm is going to be relatively smooth like a

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golf ball.

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Golfers elbow is an inflammation or an overuse injury of the tendon where all

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these flexor

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muscles connect to the medial epicondyle.

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Tennis elbow on the other hand is the outside which is where most men have

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hairy arms.

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So just like the tennis ball is fuzzy, the outside of your arm is fuzzy.

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Tennis elbow is more the extensors where they connect to the lateral epicondyle

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So one way that you can experience the difference between the two movements is

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if you put the

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or the movements that exacerbate this pattern, if you were to put your hands

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just above the

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two bony parts, those are the epicondyls, if you flex your wrist, you'll feel

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this muscle

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activate or this group of muscles activate, if you extend your wrist, you'll

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feel this

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group of muscles activate.

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What ends up happening is if it's more the tennis elbow, it's going to be more

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an overuse

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of the extensors.

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Now that could either be from overusing this movement or from decelerating this

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movement,

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which is why it's a little tricky to just diagnose through video.

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The same thing is if I'm overusing the inside here, it could be from actively

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doing this

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movement or from resisting this movement.

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So it's not that one particular release is going to cause golfers elbow and one

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particular

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release is going to cause tennis elbow.

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In fact, the more common thing that I've experienced with working with golfers

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is grip pressure

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is going to have a higher influence as far as whether you're going to get

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tennis or golf

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elbow than any of your release styles, because what'll happen is as you're

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getting close

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to impact, if you have a lot of pressure and you're kind of creating a lot of

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tension

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in your forearms and in attempt to square the club face or to prevent the club

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face

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from turning over, that added resistance is what's going to relate or

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contribute to this

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inflammation process.

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So grip pressure is one of the number one things that you want to try to work

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on if you're

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battling one of these two scenarios.

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If you want to make sure that you have light grip pressure in transition and

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you want to

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make sure that you have light grip pressure through the release, if you feel

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like you

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are holding on for dear life, it doesn't matter how much physical therapy you

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do.

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When you go back to swinging, it's going to come back up.

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The second one would be overuse from practicing on mats.

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So the mats do not have nearly as much give as the ground outside.

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And frequently, tennis elbow, golfer's elbow is going to develop as a result of

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slamming

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the club into the ground again with this increased grip pressure.

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You rarely see the tennis elbow, golfer's elbow situation on people who are

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just kind

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of keeping a relatively soft forearm as they are working through the wall.

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So that's the number one thing to work on.

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You can remove the stress to give it some rest by not hitting off of mats.

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And then the third piece would be looking at the release pattern.

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So the two common ones you'll see will be higher handicap amateurs tend to get

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golfer's

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elbow on the right arm, but the more common is to get tennis elbow on the lead

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arm from

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doing more of a chicken wing and more of a kind of scoop release kind of like

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this.

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Ideally, the release should have a little bit more of a rotational stabilizing

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component

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than a flexion extension stabilizing component.

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If you work too much in this flexion extension, then you are running the risk

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of developing

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this overuse pattern, especially if you have some facial restrictions going on

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through

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your neck, through your shoulder that contribute down to these forearm issues.

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So if you've been told that you have golfer's elbow, tennis elbow, get plenty

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of rest, get

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the inflammation down, do the soft tissue work to try to rebalance it, do the

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strengthening

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exercises to try to rebalance it.

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But then when you come back to golf, you have to work on decreasing your grip

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pressure,

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getting really steep contact, get off of mats, at least temporarily until you

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've got it

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completely resolved.

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And then third, working on your release style so that it's not so much of a br

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acing flexion

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extension, but it's more of a smooth rotation.

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That little recipe tends to work really well for getting people out of the long

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term problem

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pattern that can be tennis elbow or golfer's elbow.

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So even if you don't have golfer's elbow or tennis elbow, but you want to

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understand

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you can submit a swing and we'll tell you what's going on in your transition or

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your

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release or any other key issue that you're trying to solve with your game.