Shooting springers causing tennis elbow?

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Now don’t all laugh, I’ve recently developed tennis elbow in both forearms over the last year which is now unbearable!.
Funny enough, a year ago I purchased my first springer and now I have 6 including 3 fairly hard to cock underlevers and probably exclusively shoot them a couple of times a week.
After several visits to the docs the only conclusion is that this is cause, anyone else ever been in the same boat?.
Really peed off as I just don’t feel the same about pcp shooting but may have to sell off my springer collection if it doesn’t get better soon.
 
Discocuzzy said:
Now don’t all laugh, I’ve recently developed tennis elbow in both forearms over the last year which is now unbearable!.
Funny enough, a year ago I purchased my first springer and now I have 6 including 3 fairly hard to cock underlevers and probably exclusively shoot them a couple of times a week.
After several visits to the docs the only conclusion is that this is cause, anyone else ever been in the same boat?.
Really peed off as I just don’t feel the same about pcp shooting but may have to sell off my springer collection if it doesn’t get better soon.
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I don't know if it's the cause of mine but it is the reason I haven't taken more than a few shots with a springer in about a year. In my case, double joy. Both Golfer's and Tennis Elbow in both arms. Cause unknown for sure, more than one suspect, consequences very much known. 🤣
 
Don’t be too hasty to sell up it will probably settle down again. I first developed tennis elbow due to an old occupation printing. It flares up every couple of years for a month or so but settles down again.
 
Not exactly "Tennis Elbow " but I sometimes have really uncomfortable shoulder pain after a session with my Springers at the Range.
Not unusual for me to do hundred or so shots over a couple of hours and often takes a week or more to recover properly.

Being an unfit OAP does not help.


Worth getting an expert opinion and whatever treatment is available for Tennis Elbow, I reckon.
 
I developed an issue a couple of years ago and wasn't sure what's caused it . It did go away completely but returned this summer . Guess it must be related to watering the gardens during a long hot summer .
Perhaps worth a watchful waiting approach before selling any prized air rifles .
 
Funny you should say that, I have been thinking exactly the same thing. I had a marathon session with the HW97K about two weeks ago, and I have had pain in the right elbow and in the left forearm ever since. I haven't used a springer since then and the condition is slowly improving.
 
Went through this myself earlier this year, wasn't sure it really was Tennis Elbow but stopped using springers for a couple of months and rested the elbow. Also used ice packs to reduce swelling and tinkered in that area. All went back to normal after a while and now I am happily using my springers again with no ill effects.
 
Google tennis elbow stretches they really help I'm a yearly sufferer of it, my physio gave me some stretches to do while I was in for back, but they are freely available on YouTube, being a springer shooter may exacerbate it but may not be the root cause. I found the stretches remove the pain completely for a short while. They do eventually go and quicker with the excersise good luck 👍🏼
 
Discocuzzy said:
Now don’t all laugh, I’ve recently developed tennis elbow in both forearms over the last year which is now unbearable!.
Funny enough, a year ago I purchased my first springer and now I have 6 including 3 fairly hard to cock underlevers and probably exclusively shoot them a couple of times a week.
After several visits to the docs the only conclusion is that this is cause, anyone else ever been in the same boat?.
Really peed off as I just don’t feel the same about pcp shooting but may have to sell off my springer collection if it doesn’t get better soon.
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Feel for you buddy, mine have been painful for years! I used to do a lot of plastering/rending and concreting and it’s caught up with me😩 I can even remember when it got really bad, I was shovelling sand into a mixer for weeks from ton bags that had been delivered to the customer, they didn’t want their drive blocking so had them stacked one on top of another! I am over six foot but it really hurt my elbows(not to mention back and shoulders!) things we do for money!
 
I wouldn’t mind usually and would try and put up with it, I’m only 52 but still think I’m 21!
But it’s now got to the point where I can’t even lift a cup of tea without being in loads of pain.
Utter bummer, more so that I have to stick with pcps for a bit.
 
I got a target pistol and it gave me tennis elbow, I had to stop shooting it and its taken months to get okay and still not 100% and can be triggered easily.

I reckon a springer could do it for sure if holding a pistol can lol.
 
Discocuzzy said:
I wouldn’t mind usually and would try and put up with it, I’m only 52 but still think I’m 21!
But it’s now got to the point where I can’t even lift a cup of tea without being in loads of pain.
Utter bummer, more so that I have to stick with pcps for a bit.
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Switch arms.
 
chouchin66 said:
Switch arms.
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It’s in both Chris as I’ve been doing that to try and compensate.
After consulting with my young apprentice (my lad Harry who’s 10) he wants to keep our break barrels (Hw99 and 95) as he can shoot those, but the underlevers are going up for sale.
I’m going to miss these 😢
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Discocuzzy said:
It’s in both Chris as I’ve been doing that to try and compensate.
After consulting with my young apprentice (my lad Harry who’s 10) he wants to keep our break barrels (Hw99 and 95) as he can shoot those, but the underlevers are going up for sale.
I’m going to miss these 😢
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Bummer if you really need to sell on.
I'm on the cusp of 59 , still swing a hammer ( framing or sledge) pretty regularly...when I get a bout of tennis elbow, a rub of deep heat ointment & the arm cuff comes out. The cuff compresses the muscles @ forearm / elbow & helps a lot to take strain off of the tendons that get the strain & become inflamed. Ice & ibuprofen as needed, too. Like a slight ankle twist, just stay off it for a few days. If recurring , just like a rotator cuff, sometimes, a shot of cortisone is a boon...I joke with my sawbones to just install a grease zerk , so we can skip the needles.😂
 
I had tennis elbow a couple of years ago to the point I could not grip much in my right hand. The physio/osteo didn’t help much so ended up trying acupuncture and after 6 sessions the inflammation and pain had completely gone. They got heat into the needles with something called moxa (looks like a cigar that they light and then stub out and it smells quite potent).
 
I used a 28 oz Plumb, wooden handled, roofing hatchet for years. The Estwing, steel handled, hatchet came along and I bought one. I was driving around 20,000 nails a week and developed terrible pain, in the elbow area. I switched back to my wooden handled hatchet and my elbow was fine, after a couple of weeks. The wood reduced the shock transmitted to my elbow. I guess a wooden cocking arm is out of the question. 🤣
 
I developed tennis elbow when I moved to Cornwall working as a shipwright/boatbuilder.
Coming from Grimsby I was quite fast at caulking so they moved me from one hull to the next (I was crap cutting planks and frames), So I caulked about 4 hulls with other guys dropping on to help me when there was nothing else to do, hulls comlleted the others had completed decking for me to start.
About 5 months of swinging a 3.5 lb lignum vitae caulking mallet did it.
Dr signed me off for 2 weeks and suggested a change of profession. The rest did it a world of good.
 
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