A Cure for Golfer's Elbow & Tennis Elbow
FLEXBAR
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The Flexbar while unable to address my issue and actually making it worse in my case is onto something – at least the thesis behind the Flexbar is. The main premise that is different from just about everyone who claims to possess the Rosetta Stone of golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow cures is this. Everyone tells you that pain is emanating due to swelling. Get rid of the swelling and you’ll get rid of the pain. When you sprain an ankle that’s exactly what happens, so golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow pain must follow the same logic, right? Your ankle swells visibly up like a balloon and aggressive RICE is needed within minutes to reduce the healing time and pain.
Yes, my golfer’s elbow and later on tennis elbow showed no visible signs of swelling or difference from my otherwise healthy left elbow. But I am told that the elbow is extremely intricate and complex and doesn’t have the same visible signs as a turned ankle. But isn’t the ankle complex too with a join and small bones that stabilize and major appendage that bends and twists? Hmmm.
The idea behind the Flexbar and some of the great videos on the simple, inexpensive tool, is that the muscles and tendons of the arm around the elbow have become tight – due to overuse or lack of use. And the Flexbar uses extension to stretch those muscles and tendons. By stretching the muscles and tendons on the inside of the elbow for golfer’s elbow and on the outside of the elbow for tennis elbow (two different exercises), the idea is that those muscles and tendons no longer will stretch like a crusty rubber band about to snap but rather like soft, gooey rubber band that feels like it could stretch forever.
Unfortunately, my experience with the Flexbar fell short for one very simple deficiency with the tool itself. If you decide to move ahead with learning my 18 minute secret to pain free golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow by submitting your email, you’ll see that 50% of the idea behind the Flexbar is spot on and could work the same way as the effective method I discovered that doesn’t have the major deficiency.
That deficiency is the required flexion for the Flexbar in order to drive the extension stretch. I so wanted the Flexbar to work, eventually I bought all three colors – each representing slightly higher tension. I thought if I tried a lower tension, I would get the results promised by so many YouTube videos. When that didn’t work, I so wanted the heavier tension to fix my elbow pain instantly as promised. The design flaw (with no way around it) is that what I (and you) need is a much, much lower tension Flexbar for flexion and a tight extension tension like the Red bar. That would defy physics if made with a bar of hard rubber, so in discovering the perfect tool for facilitating this elbow pain cure, I realized the fatal flaw of the Flexbar.
