I started dancing around 6 months ago and I have a pole in my apartment. I used to practice a lot and I could really feel myself getting stronger. I loved doing it, but a couple months ago I started experiencing pain in my elbow, forearm, and wrist. My grip and overall strength in that arm became very weak.
I did some research online and I'm pretty sure the problem was golfer's elbow (like tennis elbow but on the inside instead of the outside of the elbow).
I stopped doing pole work to give my elbow a chance to heal, and it's FINALLY to the point where it isn't hurting me anymore. I tried doing a couple of easy spins with it and still didn't have any pain, so I'd like to get ease back into using the pole.
I don't want to over-do it and injure myself again, especially since I've gotten pretty weak from not working out for the past couple months.
I know I could just jump back in to using my pole everyday, and I'd get my strength back, but seeing as how that's how I hurt myself in the first place I'm thinking I'd better build up some strength first.
Has anyone else had this problem before? Any recommendations of exercises I can do to help strengthen my forearms that won't be too much or re-injure me? Or any good stretches for this? I've read stretching can really help, but have had a hard time finding actual examples of stretches to do.
Thanks!



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