Elbow injury

Hello everyone,

The last few months I've been bouldering a lot. I usually lead climb, however the gym by place is close and doesn't have a lead wall up yet. I have jumped from V3 to V5 quickly which makes me very happy. With that being said, the last month or so I've been getting some weird pains on my elbows. I heard someone talk about climbers elbow. Is this true? If so, how do you treat and prevent it from happening? Thanks in advance!

I'm still pretty new to climbing but when I first started I was zooming past the grades at the gym, just trying to pump out the hardest routes I could do. It made me happy too see such "progress." Started feeling slight pain in my left elbow and put it off and just getting sore, so I kept climbing on it for a couple weeks (BIG MISTAKE!). Ended up hurting it really bad on a climb that I slipped and tried holding on, swung out and my elbow was shot! It throbbed for the next 2 weeks even as I didn't climb. At 4 weeks the pain was all but gone with only the occasional ache. I thought I was good to climb easy routes, I was right, if I kept it under 5.9 I focused on straight arms I could climb. An overconfident me jumped onto a V1 and bam just like that re-injured my elbow, FML. 3 more weeks off then eased myself back in on the under 5.9 and wearing a brace. 4 more weeks later I replaced the brace with KT tape and it's almost healed. It's a long slow heal, be patient.

Oh and grab a foam roller and use it religiously. The best medicine for it is rest.

The dodgy elbow program works but his instructions were hard to understand