Thread: Forearm Splints???
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12-03-2005, 11:32 AM #1Associate Member
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Forearm Splints???
For about the past month, I've been having a hard time doing curls. Every rep I do, I have a pain in my forearms that feels exactly like what shin plints feel like. It is deep and right at the bone. They don't hurt any other time, but they are tender to the touch...tight at the bone.
Anybody else had this and what should I do to treat it. I've been trying to just work through it, but it's not going away and I'm on a cycle right now so I have to get in the arm workouts I can.
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12-04-2005, 11:52 PM #2Associate Member
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Anybody out there???
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12-05-2005, 08:24 AM #3Banned
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I have the same problem. Its because the curls force your wrists to fully rotate and this puts an awful lot of stress both on the bone and the connective tissue.
Mine got so bad I ended up having to leave curls for a while, but the ez bar helped a bit. Now it has gone and I may start to do curls again, being careful to not allow my wrists to flex towards my chest at the top of the curl.
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12-05-2005, 10:17 AM #4New Member
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watch your grip. its probably finger flexors getting over-stressed and this is similar to what causes shin splints. try not to hold so tight and don't flex your wrists at the top like flexor said.
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12-05-2005, 10:26 AM #5Associate Member
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Ya I may have to take a break from curls myself.
When you guys say "flex your wrist", are you referring to flexing the top of the hand towards the top of the forearm or flexing palm of hand towards bicep at the peak of the curl?Last edited by USMCSS; 12-05-2005 at 10:40 AM.
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12-05-2005, 10:32 AM #6Banned
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Originally Posted by USMCSS
The very nature of the exercise is not very good, it is not that you have a problem. Loads of people get this because the wrist supinates as the elbow flexes, and as the elbow extends the wrist pronates. In other words, as you curl, your forearms rotate without you even knowing it and you cannot help it. That is the way the joint works and its leaves the forearms prone to undue stress. The wrist position however, has no bearing on tricep exercises whatsoever...
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12-05-2005, 10:44 AM #7Associate Member
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Any time of therapy I can do to help alleviate the pain until I work through it. I mean, things that I can do to prepare the wrist for bicep days? Heat, cold, stretches, etc???
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12-05-2005, 11:06 AM #8Banned
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Originally Posted by USMCSS
Another important thing is to release your grip on the bar slowly when you have finished your curls, otherwise the sudden decrease in tension causes pain.
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12-05-2005, 11:44 AM #9
alot of time simple wrist wraps will stop this problem. also try hammer curls for a while, less stress on the wrists
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12-05-2005, 12:32 PM #10Associate Member
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Originally Posted by Doc.Sust
Good feedback and great advice FLEX AND DOC! THANK YOU!!!!!!!
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