THERABAND FlexBar, Tennis Elbow Therapy Bar, Relieve Tendonitis Pain & Improve Grip Strength, Resistance Bar for Golfers Elbow & Tendinitis, Red, Light, Beginner

I've had Tennis Elbow several times over the past few years. Using the bar helps.I learned the hard way that doing the Tyler twist quickly is actually painful and probably counter productive. There's a video on Youtube showing someone doing it quickly. I did it that way for for 3 days and felt like I was ripping my tendons. When I changed my routine and slowly stretched into the twist and slowly did the twist, the tendons felt good and the exercise stared working.I also stupidly started with the green bar. The red bar was better for me. I'm going to go back to green soon as the red bar gets "easier".1st week - I followed the Tyler Twist on line with the Green bar. It hurt so bad that I realized I had to buy the red one.2nd Week - I used the Green bar but I did it so fast that I felt more pain and that the inside of my elbow was leaking. By Wednesday, I realized that I had to seriously slow down slow down and started to feel better.By Friday, I started to feel improvement. I wasn't seeing the super speedy recovery others have but after days of proper use, I could hold my briefcase and open doors and cans of soda without the pain I was having before. I felt so good that over the weekend that I stupidly moved a dehumidifier in my basement and screwed up my left arm again.3rd Week - By Tuesday, I felt better and started over again. Slower is better. First of the three sets I did had to be done extremely slowly so there was no pain and the tendons got well worked out. The second and third sets always went better. By the end of the week, I started feeling improvement again. I didn't exercise on Saturday.4th Week. On Sunday, the red bar was starting to feel a little too easy. I'm not going to rush back to the green bar just yet. By Tuesday, I realized it was time to switch to the Green bar. The red bar was not a strain anymore.5th Week: On the Green bar. I realized over the weekend that having one day off is very useful. I think my arm needs it to recover. I'm also testing my progress with my good right hand. I feel absolutely no pain when I do the Tyler twist with my good arm. I guess I'll know I'm healed when the arms are equal.6th Week: Its' getting easier with the Green. I'm finding that if you sacrifice some time and do the first 3-4 twists realllllllly slowly, the rest go faster and you make some good progress.7th Week: Upgraded to the Blue bar.8th Week: The Blue bar is steadily getting easier. I accidentally helped a friend lift a table over the weekend and felt almost no pain.I'm going to proactively keep door this and start other tendon strengthening exercises.

This product was recommended by my chiropractor for my golf (left) and tennis (right) elbows. I've been suffering for years, but I'm terrible at sticking to a physical therapy routine. The golf elbow was extremely painful and almost constant. Any progress I made was undone the moment I used it heavily. At times it was unusable.This simple rubber rod made a considerable difference even within the first week! And after several weeks I feel confident that I will heal my elbows fully with this tool. The relief from pain is priceless! I only wish I'd known about it years ago...It's simple and easy enough to use that I actually end up doing my exercises regularly, which I think is about 75% of the battle when it comes to physical therapy. It doesn't feel like a chore to be put off. It feels like a simple activity that I can do while I'm talking on the phone or waiting for water to boil.If you're suffering like I've been for so long, give this a try! It's worth every penny!(This is NOT a compensated review, even though it may sound like it!)

Good devise for elbow pain.

It will take a while to get good at using this, but I can already see some benefit. I need to increase my hand strength and I can sit in front of the TV and twist and bend this. It's also small and inconspicuous so it's pretty much hidden on the coffee table. I may not be twisting off jar lids all that soon, but I can open most of those plastic packages.

My Therapist recommended this one, which I keep by my desk, good to take a break and use every so often. Well made and not cheap nonsense. This maker or brand make other such bands that we use at PT, they hold up and do what theyre supposed to do.

Somehow, I managed to get an annoying case of "tennis elbow",even though I do not play tennis on engage in any repetitiveswinging or flexing elbow movements. I decided to try thesehigh-recommended Thera-Band Flexbars, and use them topractice the widely-endorsed "Tyler Twist" exercise that studieshave shown will cure "tennis elbow" within a few weeks in most cases.You should do a Google or YouTube Search for: "Tyler Twist" for videos that show thisvery quick and simple exercise, to make sure you understand how to do it properly.It is particularly important to remember that you must hold your armsextended fully straight (not bent at the elbows) in order to gain maximumtherapeutic benefit of the exercise.Doing it properly, you should... as weight lifters say, "feel the burn" at leasta little bit, in the muscles of your forearm and elbow.The Thera-Band Flex Bars come in four color-coded levels of resistance.Blue: 25 pounds resistanceGreen: 15 pounds resistanceRed: 10 pounds resistanceYellow: 6 pounds resistanceThe yellow (6 pounds) is only for people who are severely injured and are unable totwist against any slight resistance without experiencing significant pain.The red and green are of very similar medium resistance (10 & 15 pounds),and they are popular choices for those experiencing a typical level of pain.The blue is a heavy resistance (25 pounds) and it is a good choice for thoseexperiencing only light to moderate pain... or for those who have strengthenedtheir forearm and elbow muscles using the lesser-resistance bars,and are ready to advance to a "maintenance and prevention" level ofexercising to keep tennis elbow from returning.I found that after just a week of using the red... I was ready to advance to the blue,so I now own both the red and blue Thera-band Flexbars.It should also be noted that you can further vary the level of resistance greatlyon any particular color of Thera-Band Flexbar, by simply grasping and twistingthe bar a bit more... or twisting it a bit less... to change the level of resistance tensionwithin the rubber. This technique alone can increase the resistance by as muchas a doubling of the resistance level.Each Thera-band Flexbar comes with an instruction booklet offering a widerange of additional suggested exercises, but honestly... most of those additionalexercises seem a bit silly and superfluous to me (rolling the bar behind yourneck to ease a sore neck... really?). Using these bars for the "Tyler Twist" tocure tennis elbow is truly almost the exclusive use of this product... but it is the idealproduct for treating tennis elbow.