After DGLO, I had my league championship on a local course that's rather long, and during that my right elbow started to hurt. This lead me to throw left handed for a few weeks to let my elbow recover for Am Worlds(Doctor said it was just 'a strained tendon', and a few weeks off would have to back to normal). I was jumping in the shower today, after having played only left handed for three weeks and noticed a 7inch by 10inch bruise under my left arm.

Pictured here: http://www.erley.org/bruise.jpg (not embeded in post to save those that don't care to see my armpit) [Note, pink dots are poison ivy and are unrelated]

It's been a long time since I started throwing right handed, but I don't remember any bruising like this. It doesn't hurt to touch or anything, so it seems like it'd just be a few burst capillaries. It sorta saddens me because now I'm hesitant to go throw this weekend, and last week I started hitting 300' left handed (beat up 150g dx valk).

Anyone else ever get something like this?

I had something like that when I tore a muscle. The other like ly explanation is abduction by space aliens.

if you were at am worlds in tulsa you might have seen this guy, his name is mike, if i remember correctly he popped a vessel but continued playing he had little or no pain. he recovered and continues to play.

determined to play (http://www.pdga.com/images/06amworlds/HaikeyPoolHAdvancedGrandma/DSC_0190.html)

I had something like that when I tore a muscle.


This was sort of what I was suspecting. Good thing there isn't a league round this week. A week off for both arms looks in order now.


The other like ly explanation is abduction by space aliens.


Normally nights where I suspect alien abduction (lost time) involves a trip to the bar and a few captain morgan drinks...

if you were at am worlds in tulsa you might have seen this guy, his name is mike, if i remember correctly he popped a vessel but continued playing he had little or no pain. he recovered and continues to play.

determined to play (http://www.pdga.com/images/06amworlds/HaikeyPoolHAdvancedGrandma/DSC_0190.html)



Wow, that IS determination.

That looks like a picture of your knee!

My diagnosis is that you tore a little muscle where your tendon inserts. It's bleeding! Stop throwing for a week and let it repair itself. Ice it periodically and massage the area in a few days to reduce scar tissue adherence.

If that doesn't work, it may have been a spider bite.

OK, gotta go, my shuttle from the Holiday Inn Express is here. :D

wow that would suck pretty bad

Any update Pat? Things going well? Been forced to pawn off my cell phone charger in order to pay medical bills?

HAHA, nah, cell phone charger is hanging my first run gym socks on the wall...

I said screw it and took 2 weeks off. My right elbow is back to 100%, although I'm still taking it easy with it. Just putting and maybe a round each week. I have ZERO pain in the elbow after a 24 hole round, which isn't something that was normal for me even 2 years ago when I was first getting into it.

i started playing 2 years ago in the winter. i had a bruise come up on my arm a few weeks later. i had one on my chest then on the back of my arm. i thought it was from not warming up and stretching, but it could have been because i was a new player and i started using muscles i hadn't been using. i play every few days now and i don't bruise anymore.