Bicep Issue

[jaihawk]

Hoping maybe someone here has experienced something similar and might have some insight. I'll be asking my Doc here in a few weeks when I have my annual physical, but here's the situation.

Was playing softball in late July for a friend of mine's team. Guy hit a line drive over short with a runner on 2nd. It looked like it was going to hit once, bounce up about waist high, and I'd have a shot to throw the guy out at the plate. Ball hit and bounced low (about knee high), so I extended my left arm down quickly to field the ball, extending it fully and almost a little back. I immediately felt some pain right above the crease in the elbow towards the bottom of the bicep. Since then, it hasn't gone away. I'm able to do most lifts that I normally do, but if I try to do something like a lateral raise, I really feel it in the same area and up my forearm (same with doing curls). I'm not able to lift anywhere the same amount of weight on that left arm. I'm really hoping that I didn't tear anything there. I stopped lifting for 2-3 months after it happened, but it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

Oh, and for the record, I did field the all and threw the guy out at the plate, so in the end, I guess it was all worth it... 🙂

 

[Tyneb23]

You've come to the right place for medical advice!

 

[jaihawk]

You've come to the right place for medical advice!

Hey, we've got a board full of over achievers and former all-conference high school athletes, so I figured someone may have gone through the same thing...

 

[Mavsker]

Torn Labia
Many such cases

 

[HerbRedman]

A lot of tPBers have sore biceps

 

[Scott Hall]

Have you tried rubbing some dirt on it?

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

I'm generally an idiot with most sports injury shit and try and play through it and hope it resolves itself. My first guess would be general structural/tendon/ligament wear and tear shit, but if it didn't resolve itself with 2-3 months off from lifting it's either a more significant injury and/or something you'll either need PT or a longer break to fix. GL man. That blows.

 

[jaihawk]

A lot of tPBers have sore biceps

If this was my right bicep, that might make sense, but I'm not ambidextrous... Left bicep just not strong enough to handle that Pringles can...

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

Alongside whatever other treatment or diagnosis you do, would recommend looking into BPC-157 injection.

 

[Hedley Lamarr]

You'll probably need PT and I always thought PT was for pussies but the shit works lol

 

[2010sarenevercomingback]

You'll probably need PT and I always thought PT was for pussies but the shit works lol

Pussy.

 

[KidsSeeGhosts]

Only rec I would have would be some elbow CARs daily (wrists wouldn't hurt either). Honestly would recommend doing a full set of CARs for all your joints regardless for pretty much anyone, but kind of a separate topic.

 

[betsch]

It's probably AIDS.

 

[David Webb]

My money is on a partial bicep tendon tear.

 

[Baron Winnebago]

Yeah seems like you actual tore something if you rested it for a good long while and you're still Jim levels of weak

 

[Jim14510]

It's probably AIDS.

This was my first thought as well.

 

[Jim14510]

Yeah seems like you actual tore something if you rested it for a good long while and you're still Jim levels of weak

I've been resting my muscles for years.

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

If this was my right bicep, that might make sense, but I'm not ambidextrous... Left bicep just not strong enough to handle that Pringles can...

You could’ve been using “the stranger”

 

[jaihawk]

You could’ve been using “the stranger”

I thought that was where you sit on your hand for a little while to get it numb first...

 

[Boondock_St_Sker]

I thought that was where you sit on your hand for a little while to get it numb first...

it is..but it's the opposite hand you typically use. In this case the left, which it isn't but if it were..."the stranger"...lol