After seeing a physio and starting to sort out the shoulder impingement then the elbow and forearm problems have faded.
Vertical mouse / ergonomic keyboard might be worth a try? If you can bear the extortinate prices.
Apparently the microsoft sculpt is the best ergonomic keyboard about at the moment.
From looking at the position my hands take when I am typing, I think a lot of the issue could be that I am resting my wrists on the desk which leads to an extension of the wrist and that seems to aggravate the feeling.
Chris - did you have any impingment symptoms/soreness in the shoulder area itself or nearby in the uppe bicep? For etc. weakness at a small point in range of motion when lifting the arm? or did your shoulder feel fine?
Really simple question guys. I'm sure loads of you have had tennis elbow over the years but I was wondering if you ever found that it reduced the blood supply to the affected forearm / hand. I have been struggling with it for the past year on and off. I'm an idiot and when its find I tend to ease up / stop the rehab and then it suddenly takes a nosedive and I'm pissed off and regretting my laziness.Sometimes if I warm up perfectly its mostly alright and doesn't affect my session but I'm not entirely sure what this perfect warm up is or I would do it every time. If I don't manage this, I have issues with the arm getting pumped super quickly and staying pumped for way longer than it should do and never really recovering.
I noticed it takes my 'worse' arm longer to warm up than the healthier one, though once I'm warmed up I notice very little pain. Tennis Elbow is a bit of a bastard in my experience because once you are properly warmed up the pain goes away nearly completely and I only notice how much damage I'm doing after the session
Its odd because I don't get any "pain" with the elbow, its just a dull ache in a particular spot on the forearm and the feeling of fatigue that comes with it. Even after a session it doesn't hurt. If anything its usually better after a session. As you say, warming it up takes longer than the healthy side though.
I would kill to have no pain! Mine started off as the dull ache and it got ignored for long enough to progress to serious pain during training seasons. The fatigue thing is even worse though, the complete lack of power can be seriously depressing