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Last week, I asked you to rank your favorite Top Blog Post of 2010….and we had a tie! Not surprisingly, the posts about Tim Tyler’s FlexBar exercises for tennis elbow and golfers elbow were the top vote-getters from our readers. The “Tyler Twist” has helped hundreds of people with tennis elbow based on the numerous comments posted on the Internet, and his new “Reverse Tyler Twist” for golfers elbow looks to be as promising as Tim completes his clinical research on the exercise. Here are the links to those posts in case you missed them!
Reverse Tyler Twist with the Thera-Band FlexBar for Golfers Elbow
Tyler Twist FlexBar Exercise Featured in New York Times
The “Tyler Twist” has gained quite a bit of attention since it was introduced last year at the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting; but you probably already know that if you follow the Academy blog!
The novel exercise using the Thera-Band® FlexBar® for tennis elbow (i.e., “lateral epicondylosis”) was developed and researched by physical therapist Tim Tyler in New York. His results were recently published in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. The exercise has also been very popular on YouTube, garnering nearly 200,000 views in about 18 months. The North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy featured the exercise as a “clinical suggestion” for sports physical therapists, and Active Aging Today published an article describing the exercise for fitness experts working with older adults.
Feedback on the Internet has been overwhelmingly positive, particularly after its posting on the New York Times and in Readers Digest. People continue to post their quotes, comments, and reviews of the exercise. Here are a few from our blog:
- The Flexbar helped me recover by a good 80-90% within as little time as a week. I did the exercise everyday (3 sets) –MJC
- This worked SO MUCH BETTER than the exercises I got in physical therapy which were different wrist curls More >
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Note: the ‘unwinding’ portion of the exercises should be performed very slowly, for 5 seconds.
Recently, New York physical therapist
Tim Tyler developed and researched the
“Tyler Twist” exercise with the
Thera-Band® FlexBar® for his patients with
lateral epicondylitis, or “tennis elbow.” The exercise was so effective that he terminated the clinical trial because the test subjects were improving so quickly over the control group of patients. As word of the success of his exercise spread, many people began to ask, “Will a similar exercise with the FlexBar work for golfer’s elbow?”
Golfers Elbow is technically known as ‘medial epicondylitis’ and is characterized by pain on the medial (inside) of the elbow, in contrast to the lateral elbow pain of tennis elbow.
In response to the many requests for an exercise for Golfer’s Elbow, Tyler invented the “
Reverse Tyler Twist.” The
exercise uses the same Thera-Band FlexBar color progression, and emphasizes an eccentric contraction of the wrist flexors and pronators, in contrast to eccentric contraction of the wrist extensors with the Tyler Twist. “We think the Reverse Tyler Twist will have similar results for medial elbow pain, but we don’t know for sure, so we’re going to do a study on this exercise as well,” said Tyler, a research associate with the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic
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