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this skull smart insight is

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understanding tennis and golfer's elbow

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so I obviously if you have some pain go

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get it checked out by a medical provider

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I'm going to say that probably four or

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five times during this video because I

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don't want you to watch this video and

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think you understand everything that's

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going in on to your personal situation

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but there's a lot of golfers and we've

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had a couple questions about well what's

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going on I've been told I have golfer's

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elbow or a tennis elbow how what can I

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do to fix it so I'm gonna help you

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understand kind of what's going on with

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golfers or tennis elbow how to

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differentiate the two a couple things

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that you can work on technically but I

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want to say it one more time make sure

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you go see a qualified medical provider

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go through the physical therapy make

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sure that you clean up the imbalance in

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the forearm as well as the imbalance in

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the shoulder and neck that could be

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contributing to it

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okay so golfer's elbow tennis elbow is

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an overuse injury of either the extensor

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muscles which will connect to the

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outside of the elbow or the flexor

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muscles which will connect to the inside

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of the elbow the easiest way that I've

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learned to remember is it golfers or is

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it tennis elbow was actually from

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another golf pro Dave Phillips if you

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look at the inside this is your medial

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epicondyle and you'll see that even on

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most hairy men the inside of the forearm

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is going to be relatively smooth like a

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golf ball golfer's elbow is an

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inflammation or an overuse injury of the

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tendon where all these flexor muscles

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connect to the medial epicondyle tennis

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elbow on the other hand is the outside

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which is where most men have hairy arms

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so just like the tennis ball is fuzzy

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the outside the arm is fuzzy tennis

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elbow is more the extensors where they

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connect to the lateral epicondyle so one

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way that you can experience the

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difference between the two movements is

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if you put the where the movements that

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exasperate this pattern if you were to

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put your hands just above the the two

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bony parts those are the epicondyles if

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you

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flex your wrist you'll feel this muscle

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activate or this group of muscles

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activate if you extend your wrist you'll

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feel this group of muscles activate what

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ends up happening is if it's more the

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tennis elbow it's going to be more an

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overuse of the extensors now that could

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either be from overusing this movement

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or from decelerating this movement which

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is why it's a little tricky to just

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diagnose through video contra or the the

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same thing is if I'm overusing the

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inside here it could be from actively

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doing this movement or from resisting

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this movement so it's not that one

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particular release is going to cause

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golfer's elbow and one particular

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release is going to cause tennis elbow

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in fact the the more common thing that

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I've experienced with working with

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golfers is grip pressure is going to

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have a higher influence as far as

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whether you're going to get tennis or

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golf elbow than any of your release

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styles because what will happen is as

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you as you're getting close to impact if

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you have a lot of pressure and you're

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kind of creating a lot of tension in

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your forearms and an attempt to square

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the club face or to prevent the club

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face from turning over that added

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resistance is what's going to relate or

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contribute to this inflammation process

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so grip pressure is one of the number

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one things that you want to try to work

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on if you're battling one of these two

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scenarios if you you want to make sure

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that you have light grip pressure in

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transition and you want to make sure

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that you have light grip pressure

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through the release if you feel like you

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are holding on for dear life

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it doesn't matter how much physical

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therapy you do when you go back to

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swinging it's going to come back up the

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second one would be overuse from

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practicing on mats so the mats do not

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have nearly as much give as the ground

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outside and frequently tennis elbow

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golfer's elbow is going to develop as a

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result of slamming the club into the

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ground again with

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this increased grip pressure you rarely

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see the tennis elbow or golfer's elbow

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situation on people who are just kind of

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keeping a relatively soft forearm as

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they're working through the wall so

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that's the number one thing to work on

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you can remove the stress to give it

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some rest by not hitting off of mats and

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then the third piece would be looking at

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the release pattern so the the two

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common ones you'll see will be higher

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handicap amateurs tend to get golfer's

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elbow on the right arm but the more

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common is to get tennis elbow on the

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lead arm from doing more of a chicken

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wing and more of a kind of scoop release

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kind of like this ideally the release

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should have a little bit more of a

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rotational stabilizing component than a

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flexion extension and stabilizing

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component if you work too much in this

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flexion extension then you are running

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the risk of developing this overuse

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pattern especially if you have some

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facial restrictions going on through

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your neck through your shoulder that

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contribute down to these form issues so

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if you have if you've been told that you

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have golfer's elbow tennis elbow get

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plenty of rest get the inflammation down

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do the soft tissue work to try to

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rebalance it do the strengthening

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exercises to try to rebalance it but

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then when you come back to golf you have

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to work on decreasing your grip pressure

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avoiding really steep contact get off of

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mats at least temporarily until you've

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got it completely resolved and then

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third working on your release style so

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that it's not so much of a bracing

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flexion extension but it's more of a

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smooth rotation that little recipe tends

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to work really well for getting people

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out of the long term problem pattern

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that can be tennis elbow or golfer's

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elbow so even if you don't have golfer's

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elbow or tennis elbow but you want to

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on in your transition or your release or

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any other key issue that you're trying

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to solve with your game