About 4 months ago, my forearm just below my elbow got really sore and tight. After dealing with it for a couple months with no relief, I ended up at the doctor where he confirmed it was tennis elbow from shooting my bow. Got a cortisone shot, which eased the pain for about a month, before it started coming back right before my trip out west. I've had a couple bow shops look at my form and they aren't seeing anything wrong or anything indicating I may be putting too much force on my bow arm. We've played with my draw weight and moving it up or down doesn't seem to affect the pain. Have any of you run into this and, if so, what did you do to fix it?
I used to get it when I was splitting wood picking up spilt pieces one handed to stack. Get a wrap to go around the sore area, won't go away but will make it less annoying.
Sometimes these things are caused by an imbalance. Try strengthening up your triceps. And if you are doing anything like pullups, shut that down until your forearm feels better.
I have had it for a few months now in my right arm. I have had shoulder surgery in this arm once already and currently have a SLAP tear that I have been working around for a few years. I’m sure mine is from a number of things, muscle imbalance, lack of adequate recovery time, and trauma to the elbow itself. There are a number of things to try like resting, stretching, strengthening, bracing, massage, etc etc. Hopefully it will get better eventually but mine is no better than it was. Good luck. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I would look hard at your archery form and see if you are completely locking out your bow arm elbow. Or, it could be from carrying weight around (at work perhaps?) at your side with your arm hanging straight down at your side with elbow locked out (imagine carrying a fire extinguisher in each hand at arm's length and elbow locked out). It may not actually be anything at all to do with shooting your bow. I had tennis elbow in my left arm last year. I believe it was from holding weight while my arm is straight with elbow locked out, I think from carrying my bow around during elk season last year. I like to carry my bow by the grip, with strings facing down towards the ground, in my left hand with my arm straight and elbow locked out. Mine was fairly mild, didn't bother me to shoot my bow but would definitely ache and be annoying if I flared it up from carrying weight at arm's length. This season I wore one of those tennis elbow sleeves and had no issues. But the injury itself takes quite a while to heal up and finally stop bothering you, and then you have to be careful with it for quite a while or you can flare it up again pretty easily.
No locking the elbow, but I do carry my bow like and that's when it really hurts, especially if it flexes down.
Do you sleep on your side with your arm under your pillow hanging off of the bed? That was my issue. I thought it was from shooting a lot, but that was more so aggravating the underlying issue. Mine would hurt right here….
If I'm looking at it correctly, that's the same spot. Don't generally sleep with my arm off the bed though.
Google some exercises for tennis elbow. The wrist curl and wrist extension with an exercises with a small dumbbell helped as well.
I had same issue for years. Affected golfing too. I was a drywaller for 23 years which probably didn’t help. I stopped construction and took a cushy job and gained weight. Well I started working out and doing push-ups my elbows would be cracking like crazy but, after a week or so. My elbow forearm pain and stiffness were gone completely. Try it
