Subject: Re: Serious elbow pain

From: [email-masked] (Dimitri Gerakaris)
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 23:08:19 -0500

Elbow problems almost always come from setting the anvil too low (the
formula for setting anvil height in Bealer's book has caused many a sore
elbow.) Try adding at least 1-1/2" more height so you don't over-extend and
snap the elbow. And until the effects of the added height kick into gear,
do "push-ups" against the wall every now and then (with your feet about 3
ft. from the wall) and see if that doesn't make you feel better.

>Don
>When I first started blacksmithing I had a similar problem.
>Firstly I went to the chemist(read drugstore) and bought a Velcro fastening
>elastic tennis elbow brace.
>This worked well after I had rested my arm for a week or so. Use the brace
>when you work.
>Get a smaller hammer, the size of the hammer is probably why you have the
>problem in the first place.
>Also my doctor said that he had read in a medical journal that If you get a
>thisk towel and hold it with the good arm and twist tightly with the bad
>armhold the pressure then twist the other way. Repeat this ten times twice a
>day.
>The excercise helped relieve the pain for me
>Speedy recovery
>
>Regards
> Colin Morton
>
>
>[email-masked] wrote:
>>
>> I am into about a year of tennis elbow.  Sometimes I can hardly lift a coffee
>> cup (or worse yet...a can of beer) let alone a hammer.  This is getting to be
>> a real killer.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas?  Anyone else been through this?  What did you do?
>>  Did you ever get better?  Does it eventually go away.  My doctor has been no
>> help.  The session on hand and arm injuries at Alfred did not offer much
>> encoragement.
>>
>> This is very depressing.
>>
>> Any thoughts deeply appreciated.
>>
>> Don Plummer

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From: John Elliott <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:10:46 -0400

So any ideas on the correct height?

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From: 	Dimitri Gerakaris[SMTP:[email-masked]]
Sent: 	Monday, September 23, 1996 8:04 AM
To: 	[email-masked]
Subject: 	Re: Serious elbow pain

Elbow problems almost always come from setting the anvil too low (the
formula for setting anvil height in Bealer's book has caused many a 
sore
elbow.) Try adding at least 1-1/2" more height so you don't 
over-extend and
snap the elbow. And until the effects of the added height kick into 
gear,
do "push-ups" against the wall every now and then (with your feet 
about 3
ft. from the wall) and see if that doesn't make you feel better.