Forearm muscle injury-elbow pain

[Caerus]

lateral epicondylitis ....Banged up my forearm and elbow on a mtnbike fall on Jan 1st 2014...suffered dull deep pain in forearm and sharp pain in the elbow...the dull pain in the forearm is brought on with workload and strangely get worse at night. Dr's diagnoses ,The dreaded Tennis Elbow, which we could soon rename" Mountain bikers elbow" I got an injection into the elbow which worked great for 3 weeks, When I started battling with grip strength I visited my GP again and this time had ex-ray's...nothing broken but probably some nerve damage .So more Anti-Inflammatories and a possible visit to the specialist if it doesn't improve.

 

So 5 months down the road...I wear one of those elasticized arm braces when ridding ..it seems to help...My arm will ache after heavy lifting ,and it will wake me up at night if I don't sleep with it in just the right position. My grip strength has improved but it's still not 100%.

 

so my big question who has tried acupuncture?

Yip, I was diagnosed with tennis elbow in both arms . Still almost 7 weeks on and the pain is still there. My grip strength is something I need to look at as well come to think of it as my hands & fingers get sore during riding( I've also had complete bike set-ups done). So stretching and rehab is slowly helping, but extremely frustrating as I have only done one road ride in that time.