Cathy Kates’ Last Ditch Cure For Tennis Elbow: Horse Liniment [Cue The Jokes]

The doctor says if the elbow hurts on the top, it's tennis elbow.  If it hurts on the bottom, it's golfers elbow.  I haven't done either and my left elbow has been killing me for months.  I can barely lift a coffee cup to my face!  I talked about this during the morning show and a listener face booked me and said she and two others in her office have the same thing and so does my husband!  Could rubbing medication for horses really be our cure?

I've had tennis elbow before and spent a lot of time at the chiropractor working on the muscles of my arm while silent tears ran down my cheeks.  I tried that again this time and finally thought...ENOUGH, a medical doctor may be the better route.  I LOVE Dr. Kenji Sudoh, he's my Sports Medicine doctor and he started me on physical therapy I could do at home because he knows how busy I am (God bless him!), but that doesn't seem to be helping and the next step with him would be a cortisone shot. Yikes!

Then my friends Scott and Lisa told me about Horse Liniment. Yup, medication meant for horses.  They say people swear by this stuff although I had a listener tell me that while it worked for her it also gave her a garlic taste in her mouth. (a small price to pay for a pain-free arm).  So, I began my search thinking L&M Supply in Cloquet or Dan's Feed Bin in Superior might be the place to pick some up.  But, while we were in Wausau, WI with my sister and I saw a Fleet Farm and asked if we could stop, that's where we found it.

It almost feels like Icy Hot or Ben Gay (do they make that stuff anymore?) when you rub it on and it smells like spearmint.  It did feel better, but only for a while.  I've used it for about three days now and haven't gotten the garlic taste in my mouth yet.  Now, my husband also bought and is using a copper compression arm band.  He's used both with great results, so that may have to be my next purchase.  I was so shocked to hear that one office, near where I live,has THREE people in it with the exact same symptoms (cue Carrie Underwood's "Something In The Water" here).  What the heck?   I picked them up a bottle of horse liniment to share.  My goal is to cure five tennis elbows with two bottles of liniment. HA!

If you read the bottle it says that it can be used for sore joints and muscles, so take it from me, if you're having problems, give it a shot.  I haven't grown a tail, I am not craving hay and apples and I don't have the sudden desire to run the Kentucky Derby so I'd say it's safe.