Has anyone thrown out their arm/elbow before?

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Originally Posted by southpawed

Sometime ago, when i was having little backyard matches with some buddies and i threw my rear straight out pretty hard. Well it missed and went over his shoulder, and when my arm was fully extended it kind of got arm barred. I'm assuming i hyper extended or sprained my elbow tendon.

Well, after a month or so, it healed up fine. A little stiff, but fine. But yesterday during sparring, i threw my straight out, missed again, and it threw my arm out again. Damn its a bitch. Does anyone know how to deal with these elbow pains. When i feel the pain mostly when i corkscrew and fully extend my punch. If i'm hitting a bag it doesnt hurt. until i misjudge my range and throw a punch and extend my arm too far.

So far i've been icing it and trying to stretch it. Has this ever happened to anybody else?

I threw out my shoulder/arm by holding the mitts wrong for my friend once. I was just starting to train him and he would throw a left hook and I would hold it out too far and it would snap my shoulder out. After one hour of that I couldn't move it well for a few days. Later I learned in training or any prep work it is best to keep the punches short and not wild so as not to injure the arms and shoulders. Realistically in a real fight you are not going to swing wildly unless you have an overmatched opponent who you can land easily against. So the short punches in training work well. That was years ago though. 1991..