Sunday, June 12, 2016

How to Treat Kettlebell Lifter's Elbow

In all my years as a practicing osteopath and a competitor, this is the most common injury I've seen.

As a competitor I have been watching the growth of kettlebell sport in the UK since 2011, and as an osteopath I have watched the injuries of the lifters involved develop and change radically. Complaints in the beginning were mostly about fatigue and torn hands, reflecting the underdeveloped techniques used in the sport back then. But kettlebell sport has gone from a strength discipline to a highly technical endurance one, and many of the injuries I see now are from overuse.


 


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