THERABAND FlexBar, Tennis Elbow Therapy Bar, Relieve Tendonitis Pain & Improve Grip Strength, Resistance Bar for Golfers Elbow & Tendinitis, Green, Medium, Intermediate

Bought this to rehab tennis elbow and strengthen forearm muscles at home.What I like• Really targets pain from tennis elbow and repetitive strain• Comes in different resistance levels for gradual progress• Compact and easy to use during breaks or workoutsWhat could be better• Takes a few sessions to learn proper form• Rubber material has a strong smell when newBottom line: Excellent rehab tool for elbow pain and grip strength. Perfect for athletes or office workers with arm strain, but look at Gripmaster Hand Exerciser if you want finger-specific training.

Bought this for my husband to use post-therapy. Helps to strenghten his arms and hands.

Great item use it every day

Take it from someone who has spent hundreds of dollars on chiropractic therapy over a couple years and had continual relapses until he began using this device: it works!! No, it hasn't cured my tennis elbow. I still have occasional flareups when I perform activities such as kayaking and motorcycle riding which stress this tendon, but not every time, and nowhere near as bad as before I began using the Thera-band flexbar. I use the green bar several times weekly. I have not found that I feel like I need to use a greater resistance bar. I am 200 lbs, athletic, lift weights and use my arms all day long to push equipment toward and away from my patients as well as rotating hard-to-turn knobs on some of the machines.If you allow your tennis elbow to reach the point where it is painful just to extend your arm as I did, you will likely need chiropractic attention first to loosen up the scar tissue that forms in the tendon over repeated, chronic flareups (my chiropractor used the Graston technique, which involves scraping a metal bar repeatedly over the site of the inflammation to break down the fibrosis that occurs between individual fibers of the tendon--resulted in a 100% cure...for awhile).Sadly, my chiropractor did not recommend this bar but I'm glad I found out about it because it has kept my lateral epicondylitis under control over about 6 months now. I'll keep using it to keep me from returning to where I was.

First my history: I started playing tennis in May 11. I am right handed and was playing tennis 4-5 times a week. My right elbow pain started mid Sep 2011. I stopped playing tennis and rested elbow from 21 Sep to 1 Oct 2011 (11 days). I had pain using my elbow arm lifting my handbag, groceries, keyboard typing, mouse use, and reaching alarm clock in morning to shut off. I purchased a future elbow brace with two pressure gel points on 19 Sep. Wore it every day, first few days at sleep too, and my pain lessened, just from the brace.Began to play tennis again on 2 Oct 11 and pain came right back. On 3 Oct 11, I received the green theraband flex bar from amazon.com. That evening did about 30 of the exercises after watching it over and over on the UTube demo. Felt popping and pulling during the twists. It was a bit painful, but bearable. My arm felt very weak after exercising it on and off that evening. I did ice it the end of that first night. Woke up and pain was different, still there, but not as intense. Even my fingers felt better, normally they are achy too. Blow drying my hair that next morning, not as painful, and noticeably different. From that date forward, I continue to play tennis 2 to 3 times a week and do three or four repetitions of 15 twists each day, normally, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and before bed time. I also continue icing, massage, ibuprofen, aspercreme, and wearing Band-It Elbow brace during play.I can't claim this is a "miracle" cure, but it has definitely helped my tennis elbow. I have heard of people quitting playing tennis for months or even years due to the elbow pain, but I continue to play and the pain has really subsided. I recommend it , without hesitation.On an additional side note: I did buy a new racquet this past weekend (Nov 11), it is a Wilson Khamsin Five BLX demo. I read all over the internet on picking a racquet that was easy on the elbow and arm. This gets a lot of good reviews for this, and I absolutely agree. The racquet I was using (Wilson Federer Signature 110 Tennis Racquet), definitely contributed to the pain. I have used my new racquet three days in a row and feel a difference in my strokes and the pain vibrating up the racket to my arm when I hit the ball. The pain over the last three days has subsided immensity too. Racquet makes a difference, I believe that now!

+gave immediate improvement of outer elbow pain for a frequent weight lifter+weeks later, still not 100% pain free, but 85% there and I feel like I have my life backI lift 4-5 days per week at the gym. Typical bodybuilding style, 1-2 body parts per day, 50-60 min workouts. For 8 months I had been dealing with a left elbow pain that felt both deep and outer. On wrist rotation, I could sometimes make the elbow audibly crack. Like many people, pain only occurred with certain movements during the day, like buckling my car seat belt, but was quite intense when it did occur. At the gym, it came to affect nearly every upper body exercise, push or pull. Not only did it limit me during pec days on the bench, but it had progressed to hurt with shoulder days and back days. I concluded it must have been due to overuse, and I took a few weeks from the gym. Coming back, it had improved, but after a few workouts it had flared back up to full pain. Completely disheartening, as I thought I would have to live with this elbow pain for the rest of my life.I considered going to my PCP for physical therapy and even discussing options for surgery, but before doing so I came upon the theraband. Doing the wrist extensions had an immediately noticeable improvement on my elbow pain. I don't understand it, because there is no way the forearm muscles could have been strengthened in such a short amount of time. I read somewhere a possible mechanism is a realignment of tendon fibers. Regardless, this thing worked, and after a week, I was back in the gym lifting with much less pain. Weeks later, I still feel elbow pain during certain actions and certain lifts, but it is so mild now I can exercise without holding back. I feel like I have my life again.