pain

[dfreak]

hello everyone, for some reason i suffer from some intense pain in my forearms when ever i curl with the straight bar. i can use machines and dumbbells all day long for biceps but the second i touch a barbell my forearms feel like they are about to pop. does any one have any idea to what might be the causing this?

it does not matter what weight i use weather is the bar by itself or with a plate. it can be the first workout of the routine or the last the grip has nothing to do with it, wide close regular they all hurt. but i can switch it over to dumbbells and keep working out with no pain at all. my forearms are also proportionate to my body so i really dont know what this could be nothing is broken or damaged i have no swelling or bruises and it only hurts when i curl with the bar help me out please...


btw is not no sissy man up pain is bent over eyes shut cant move my arms pain

 

[Fulano]

Sounds like median nerve compression.

The median nerve is a large nerve that originates from a couple different branches of the brachial plexus (in the armpit). It travels down your upper arm and through the middle of your forearm to your hand.

In the forearm, it passes between the two parts of the pronator teres muscle (which is the muscle that rotates your forearm inward). It also passes between other muscles of the forearm. The median nerve gives innervation to most of the flexors of the forearm. It is also the only nerve to pass through the carpal tunnel.

I'm not an orthopedic surgeon, but my suspicion is that as the muscularity of your forearms has increased, the spaces between the muscles where your median nerve passas have become smaller and smaller. So, now when your wrist is twisted in particular ways, you compress your median nerve with your own enlarged forearm muscles.

My understanding is that carpal tunnel syndrome ususally gives symptoms in the hands and wrists, not the forearms. So, my suspicion is that you're compressing the nerve somewhere nearer the bend of your elbow. Since the pain occurrs when your hand is rotated outward (straight bar curls), I'm guessing that the median nerve is getting compressed between the two heads of the pronator teres, which would be stretched taught in that position.

Solution: Don't do straight bar curls.