Elbow problems from using carbon blades?

Anyone else out there experience elbow pain after using a carbon blade?

Tackifire Drive, both sides.

I realy don't know...

extensive bending of the elbows lol. its like a common pain for tennis and badminton players too (and they also experience wrist pains as well?)

well i think lol. but I read a pamphlet at a clinic that talks about pains from extensive use of a certain part of the body. 

Your arm might be too weak for the vigours of the sport. Try strengthening it with light weight training, push-up and pull-ups.

you sure you didn't get hurt before?

I use a Waldner senso carbon and so far, I don't have any injury problems.

I read about this when I was looking for info about the KLHS...I thought it was just my terrible interpretation of the Japanese...but now i know...
And yes, on that site it mentioned that Carbon blades (esp. pre 2000) did cause elbow problems....perhaps it was the carbon they used or the gluing method or w/e.

Gark

I had inflamation of the soft tissue on my shoulder before due to overuse (Thurs 6-9pm, Sat 2-6pm, Sun 1-6pm for a few months). I'm not sure why you're getting it at the elbow? Take a vid of yourself to examine how you use your limb or ask a friend or anyone who's competent in human normal motion, eg. physiotherapist.

Remember, practice correctly heaps, rest heaps, eat heaps. You're living on borrowed health credits if you practice correctly heaps and don't rest, eat heaps, or worse you practice incorrectly heaps and don't rest, eat heaps etc etc. When nature calls in the debt you'd better have enough physical wealth to repay or be crippled, literally.

HI

Agreed.  Overuse definitely has a part.  My wrist pain flared up when I was training 4-5 times a week + playing tennis and doing wrist strengthening exercises, despite the fact that I stretch out my wrist beforehand every time.  I think after my next tournament I will take a few weeks off training in order to do only the wrist exercises.  This way I will get the benefit of a stronger, but not irritated wrist.

Another thing to consider is that most carbon blades are a bit heavier than wood ones.  It might just be the added weight, and not any shock transmission issue, that is contributing to the joint pain.

D4,

No need to avoid your blade, its simply that you're overtraining. You might want to consider weight training to strengthen your tendons and ligaments, that'll help you avoid a lot of debilitating injuries.

I'm not sure if this is what you are experiencing because you describe your pain in the tip of your elbow, but I suffered from epicondylitis, more commonly know as "tennis-elbow" a while back due to overuse. I use a wood/fiberglass blade. It took three months to get things back to normal but here's what I did:

Switched computer mouse from right to left hand (took a while to get use to, but I feel it was key in resting my injured right arm.)

Did a thorough warmup of the forearm before every playtime. For warmup exercise ideas check out these sites:
http://www.tennis-elbow-treatments.com/pages/tennis_elbow_exercise.php
http://airsports.fai.org/jul98/#art2

Stopped doing repetitive multiball drills on just one side (ie just forehand or just backhand over and over). Instead, I would only multiball forehand and backhand combined.

Wore a support for the injured arm during play: http://www.docortho.com/catalog/Tennis-Elbow-Arm-Band-p-18772.html

Iced 15 minutes on 15 minutes off, 3x after play.

If the pain persists or worsens, the suggestion is to give your arm a complete timeout for a month or so and then start back with the exercises.

Hope this helps others possibly suffering from similar injuries. For more information on tennis-elbow, check out this article: http://www.bonsecourscottage.org/bschs_healthresourcecenter/0905-02.pdf