Assignment 21 - Matthew Klee - Obstacles

Okay so here's going to be yet another post about tennis, bare with me please. This past year I've been playing A LOT of tennis. I've been hitting (in the past 6 months) every day of the week for around 2 hours a day, so yes, I'm committed. But once I started playing so much I started developing wrist problems. Now, the common injuries for tennis players are what's called tennis elbow and shoulder injuries and of course, I got what I would consider the worse one, tennis elbow. In my case, it's caused by overuse of my wrist because although it's called tennis elbow the injury really concerns the muscles that control wrist movement, and since my tennis game involves putting a lot of top-spin on the ball, my wrist gets used a TON. At first, I didn't know what was up, I would just start taking Advil or whatever I had on me to get through the pain for a 2-hour practice at UK or whatever I had going on that night, however, eventually, it stopped working well enough for me not to notice its effect on my game. So, I decided to make a plan to overcome this. I bought a brace, and through the help of Web MD and my mom (nurse practitioner) I figured out a plan to give my wrist the most rest time I could and ensure it didn't get into any positions for straining during nonuse (by using the brace). I was able to overcome this problem before it got bad and caused me to have to take a break from tennis luckily, I still deal with this problem but it is now manageable because I have a plan that works to keep the injury at a minimum.