Hi all badminton lovers..I had long term rotator cuff & tennis elbow injury, but I'm always covered by medical pain killer,methylsalisylate salp,good warming up as always. But sometimes the pain came I had to control all power and swing speed as a hard hitter player (MD). So, I'm evaluating all kind rackets I have, string tension. It's normal ! 3U and 26 Lbs. But one thing makes me curious, I'm using thick towel grip, either I'm not using the original PU grip, just the towel. Is it any kind relation about the thick towel grip and the injury I had ? Thank you very much..
your injury will be caused by poor technique. NOT the equipment. Get a coach and relearn your technique from ground level up. You dont want to play with pain killers constantly as it will mask pain and you will continue to make the injury worse playing with a poor technique.
Check that your grip is not too small. Tennis elbows can sometimes be caused by having a grip too small.
I'd second the "play around with grip size" suggestion. Perhaps a thin PU grip under your towelling grip. Bring it up in size in small increments and see if it makes a difference.
In last 2 night badminton schedule, playing 5 games MD each night with thin vinyl grip very helps me a lot, the pain injury not feeling anymore. In this case, I'm using thin layer cushion wrap 1 thin vinyl grip. Before and after played I'm using also emulgel Natrium Diklofenak, it's wonderful, this salp was non heat thermal gel and dry fast in skin. I used it in elbow and shoulder.
Besides technique and grip size, strength conditioning can also minimise injury. I recommend strengthening your rotator cuff and shoulders with weights if you can.
I second on this. As a PT and sport conditioning specialist strength training do help reduce injuries and recovery time. Plus it should help increase some arm power.
Re rotator cuff, I had this injury and I tried loads of treatments to heal it from stretching to physio but non worked. The one thing that did work oddly enough was not sleeping on my playing arm side for a while, it allowed me to keep my arm along my body rather than out at 90 degrees with pressure on it. Sounds weird but it made the difference for me.
I don't think it is a good idea to take pain killer. It just masks the injury and causes you to injure the wounded area further. You should go at least do an ultrasound imaging analysis to see if there is any tear in your tendon. For relieving the pain, I found heat is better than cold. Something similar to this video
Rotator cuff issue. Previously had that from exerting too much power with a less than perfect form. Strengthened them by externally rotating them using bands and stretching against stable objects (check out Athlean X youtube on rotator cuff issues, Jeff Cavalier lectures wisely on it). Also included weight training for my shoulders to increase endurance capacity and strength. Hope this helps!
