How To Avoid And Prevent Bicep Tendonitis,

March 12, 2010 by  
Filed under Muscle Building

If you are into sports the biggest question I think you might have is how do you get bicep tendonitis? And how do I prevent it? So in this article I will share with you the steps needed so you can avoid it. Tendonitis is result of overstress to the bicep tendon. Having a weak tendon might make the risk of getting it higher but even if you do have a strong bicep overtraining and over stressing your bicep can wear your bicep tendons out. When this happens you will begin to feel pains where these tendons lie and this pain can severely hamper your activity

Repetitive movements like performing to many curls or throwing a baseball will inevitable lead to tendonitis.

The symptoms include

- pain when bending your arm

- specified spot of pain, not pain in the whole arm

- Once in a while you feel a sharp pain in the shoulder area or you might hear a popping sound in that area

So the next question that arises is that you are wondering how to prevent bicep tendonitis.

If you feel bicep tendonitis is creeping up on you its time to take action. It’s a very annoying injury to acquire and its only cure is rest. But the problem is that some serious athletes can’t completely rest or take time off. In that case the best thing to do is ice it regularly. Icing an injury will help with preventing bicep tendonitis and will help speed up recovery. Another thing to do is regularly stopping and stretching the targeted muscle that also could be very useful. And the last thing is don’t push it. By this I mean that serious athletes always want to push themselves and that’s fine but not when you might acquire bicep tendonitis. In that case take any rest opportunity you can find. Rest in reality is the only cure

So let’s say you were unable to prevent the bicep tendonitis from occurring and you come down with an acute case of it. What do you do?

-Rest. Rest the best cure for bicep tendonitis. At this point you should stop all strenuous activities. And I mean total rest.

- Ice. Put a cold pack or ice on the spot where you feel pain. 20 minutes 4 times daily to reduce swelling

-Stretching. After acute pain has died down you should perform light, gentle stretches to the bicep with tendonitis.

- Medication. Take ibuprofen (Advil. Etc) to help with any pain and to help with inflammation

Try to avoid bicep tendonitis from the beginning. Do this by avoiding over training. Its one thing to train hard its another to over do it. So be careful with your training and avoid bicep tendonitis

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