Injuries and Muscle-Ups
Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Mar 29, 2009. From an injury standpoint, the last 6 months haven’t been very good for me. I developed a pretty bad case of tendonitis on my outer elbow (more commonly known as “tennis elbow” although mine is the result of climbing, not tennis) last November. Prior to the injury, I had already committed to going on a climbing trip to Joshua Tree, and although I tried to take it easy on that trip, I’m pretty sure I ended up aggravating my condition. You know things aren’t good when you can’t even lift an empty glass mug without feeling a shooting pain. With climbing injuries, I’ve learned the hard way that the best course of action is to entirely cease all climbing and to just let things heal. So I did the right thing and put my climbing gym membership on hold which meant no climbing for at least a month. Much to my dismay, the nature of the injury also meant no volleyball either since the act of passing or bumping the ball would hurt my arm (although s...
