TheraBand FlexBar Resistance Bar For Medial Epicondylitis, Prevent Tendonitis and Improve Grip Strength, Relieve Pain From Tennis Elbow, Golfers Elbow, and Tendinitis, Light, Beginner

Excellent innovative product. Simple to use and easy to carry around

Very useful exercise bar for improving grip strength. One can find a lot of videos on YouTube

Does what it says it will do. Very good

Seems to be working !

If you already have weight discs at home, then a wrist roller might be a better choice. -------------------- When I first received this flex bar, I tried to complete the 3 sets of 15 repetitions that seem to be the recommended routine for these tools. I managed 2x15 with a 1 minute pause between sets, and couldn't face a third set. Re-reading the NY Times piece that is so often mentioned with flex bars the key line for me was: "Beginners should start with three sets of five repetitions, adding more as the repetitions get easier, Tyler says." well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/phys-ed-an-easy-fix-for-tennis-elbow/ I've been following a daily routine with this for the past week, a few more reps each day, with a four minute rest between sets. I'm not sure if it's improving or aggravating my tennis elbow. The original study suggests a 7 week course: "Once the patients could perform 3 sets of 15, they progressed to the next color FlexBar®, indicating a higher intensity of eccentric resistance. The treatment continued until the patient had a resolution of symptoms, which occurred at an average of 7 weeks of treatment with 10 clinic visits." [...] ------------ Frequently asked questions on the Thera-band website. [...] ---------- The NHS website does not mention this as a certain cure. [...] ------- One thing I have found helpful is a wheat bag. You put them in the microwave for 1 minute, and then have a hot pack to soothe your aches and pains. I have The Muscle Doctor one. ----- EDIT. I used a full set (yellow, red, green, blue) of Theraband flex bars to treat my case of tennis elbow. It worked.

Thanks so much-it came eventually Hopefully I can sort ouot this dreadful arm strain

Excellent for tennis elbow treatment.

very nice

Had golfer's elbow for many months. Tried massage and eccentric dumbbell exercises but no signs of improvement. Gave this a shot and after 5 weeks, I'm back to normal with no pain. I started with the blue which provides max resistance but I should probably have tried green to begin with. You should begin to notice a slight improvement after a week if you follow the exercises. I did 3 sets of 12 each day. Dumbbells don't provide the same kind of resistance that this does which is why I think it works so well. With the blue flexbar, I had to slightly modify the technique to prevent myself from developing tennis elbow in the good arm. Just pin that good elbow to your side when doing the reverse tyler twist.

The flex bar is easy to use, and is helping with my pain. My Physical therapist suggested one for home use to help with grip strength and elbow pain. It is durable and I can already tell a difference with hands and elbow. Great value!

Started with green, have moved on to blue. I do four exercises- twisted 180 degree clockwise and CCW, bending up into a U, and down into an arc, holding all four in position 30 seconds. Short, easy, do it any time. Surface has striations for good grip. Have increased forearm muscles and mad a significant different in my grip and arm strength. Actually the four exercises will stress arms and shoulders building them to. A really satisfying exercise….

Fantastic product. I'ma big ol' child, so doing corrective exercises to combat the stressors of adult life working 40 hours in steel toes.. is just ..plain.. is not fun. These wobbly rods are a fun way to giggle the shoulder back into its proper place! Fun to use while watching television for low impact use after a hard day. This is my second blue one. I have played around and had some really fun, ergonomic, full arm stabilizer exercises just jamming out to some music. My tip for more intense oscillation exercise: Pretend you are drumming(probably won't work for an actual drummer because they would have muscle memory for how a drum stick actually behaves), or find the rhythm and create a gryoscopic battle rope situation. I hope that description is accurate. "Gyroscopic battle rope situation", lol. Pretend you are a hard rock drummer with a full circle drum set and just feel the wobble with the rhythm- can make it as intense as you like. Getting a good wobble on these big blue ones will get difficult very quickly, but the music (and rhythmic wobble of the natural rubber) makes it so fun! Something else if both put to each side with outstretched arms. It can assist in something I believe called "fascia hopping"? I dunno.. another suggested use. It's a wobbly rod that lets you play with forces like momentum and gravity in rhythmic fashion- endless uses beyond the recommended ones.

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