Well...today I was playing badminton and during one period, I decided that sitting on the floor and letting the AC get to me wasn't going to help. I tried to practice my backhand shots by lifting them up in the air as far as I could continuously. After like the 3rd shot, it felt like my elbow popped out. It wasn't extremely painful. But everytime I tried a backhand, from that point on, I could feel something in my elbow making a weird clicking sound and it hurt. My forehand wasn't affected at all. Some adult told me to lift my arm and keep it straight. It might have been psychologically or not, but it got a little better. I looked through the forums and saw some information on tennis elbow/badminton elbow, but I don't think this matches the descriptions. Maybe it is, who knows. Any insights?
Go see a doctor and lay off the backhand. I'd say the way you're doing your backhand is the cause of the problem. So see a doctor, lay off the backhand, and once it heals find someone to teach you the proper form to avoid further injury.
Go see a sport specialist if you can afford it. Most GP has the annoying habit of saying 'if it hurts, don't play'.
Yeah! But all of us hard core addicts want to know how to continue playing without making the condition worse or at least how to recover as quickly as possible so that we can resume playing. Lacking good advise, many of us continue doing the wrong thing and suffer serious injuries. GP being non sportsmen never understand that.
However, playing through injury is like a gamble. Once you are injured, your body is more fragile, and only leads to 1 result - higher chance to make it worse. Therefore, try to let it heal properly, before rushing back. Seriously, 1 or 2 more weeks off and 100% back, is much better than try to "save" 1 week of action, only to find to suffer in hospital for the next 3 months... To me, a doctor's job is to give a more proven way to let us to recover. They should NOT try to create the so-call "short cuts" and put the patient into a more risky condition. If a patient decides to take a chance, can't blame the doctor if anything happens later.
