Joints are destroyed...

[105kStrongman]

This will be 16 years of heavy heavy training for me, my first 12 years were bodybuilding and even then I trained super heavy, it's how my body responds best..

Now I can't even do skullcrushers, one armed extensions, not even pushdowns anymore... I had an MRI, but it didn't really show much, im guessing scar tissue combined with tendonitis and some damage.

Now I have tried EVERYTHING and anything, the only thing I haven't tried is that synvisc stuff, liquid knees or whatever it is called...

Anyone know about this stuff, and has anyone here even used it before?

 

[nuknuk]

doesnt that wear off and you have to get it injected time to time? Or am i thinking of something different?

 

[105kStrongman]

doesnt that wear off and you have to get it injected time to time? Or am i thinking of something different?

I think you are right, I am going to google it, but I want to see if some of our guys have used it firsthand...At this point I wake up in my sleep at night in pain from them aching, it sucks. Im only 32, with no plans on quitting strongman or heavy training, so this is not good LOL

 

[nuknuk]

I know of runners that have to get it done in their knees. Its from just years of running on hard surfaces, they say. And it gets to the point where it fills like bone on bone, then they go get another shot.

 

[Pharm_Fed]

I think Presser was having problems with his knees and mentioned something about the synvisc or whatever. Don't know if he ever went through with it, maybe he'll chime in.

 

[dorian123]

my bet is that it was the skull crushers that did it-everyone that I've met that has done these heavy for a long period of time has elbow problems...

skull crushers, standing upright rows and hack squats tear the shit out of your joints if done long and heavy enough

 

[The Dude]

Synvisc is awesome shit from what my buddies have said and the research is also very impressive. It is injected every 6 months into the knees and creates a fake cartilagenous surface allowing for immediate results, but also contains additional medications to help regenerate the damaged tissue. That plus IGF would be very impressive I believe.

 

[saudades]

Yes, synvisc is what Presser was talking about earlier. Current methods inject directly into the joint--ouch! It does work though. The new research however, is an injectable that you use IM, and it travels to where it is supposed to go. I'll see if I can locate what that was. If you search through the site, there may be a link for it.