Rehabilitation.
On my way, originally uploaded by christinamarcet.
Lateral epicondylitis is treatable. It takes a long time to treat.
This forearm strap is the most low-tech of the treatments, but it does wonders. It provides focused compression on your tendons to relieve stress at the elbow joint. Stress relieved there also relieves pain in my hands, since they're all connected by the same tendons. Good good stuff.
It's an invisible condition to the outside world - you look normal and capable, but under your skin, you look like this:
And it hurts. All the time, if you do like I did and wait forever to get treatment.
Hopefully, I'm not too late.