Quote Originally Posted by vio View Post
Thanks for the welcome and an answer! Most appreciated!
Strangely, there is no pain directly from moving or even linear to force production. Just an ever-present irritation in my elbow. It's a rather diffuse pain, not well confined within one specific muscle, but felt throughout the elbow and reaching 5cm or so up the lateral tricep (More toward the tendon). Following any tricep activity, the pain gets worse after 15 minutes or so. A small lump has formed on the lateral tricep, 3-4cm from the elbow. The 'pop' appears while exerting force in an bench-press-like movement at about 100 degrees angle between upper and lower arm, which by coincidence is the exact same angle as that fatal lift-off.
Hmmm, almost sounds like Olecranon Bursitis as opposed to a muscle tear. Sounds like something is amiss with the joint area if there is no pain on muscular contraction. Especially if there is a cyst appearing, but that can also be a micro-effusion.
I've attempted to have an Wikipedia reference-linkMRI, but I will probably have to wait forever for it.
I was concidering HGH to increase collagen synthesis, but it's too expensive.
Is there any evidence regarding this?
Yes, I am desperate. In sum, all that has been done thus far is not doing any pushing-motions or triceps training, and putting on an ice pack every day (this seems to help a bit). I haven't used any COX-2 inhib. yet, because I read a study saying it isn't benefitial the first 10 days of an inflammation and makes tendons brittle.
There is some debate about this, but ibuprofen has been shown to inhibit muscle protein synthesis in vivo, and inhibition of the natural inflammatory reaction is also a rather un-ending debate.
I don't know if that's even true .
To an extent yes
Oh, and ye, what is an effusion, and can I do anything about it?
Without actually seeing in person what it is it is difficult to say, but it sounds as if there is definitely fluid beginning to build up at the site of injury. You may benefit from elevating your arm, continue with the iceing.
AS above, regards