Elbow pain from lifting is pretty common and usually just starts as a nagging ache on the inside or outside of the joint after a heavy pulling day. It might even disappear as you warm up and come back the next time you lift, but with more vengeance.

It can be tempting to slap a compression sleeve on and train through it, but the experts say that could make things much worse. Instead of a few weeks of irritation, you could end up battling it for a year or more. According to two clinicians, the fix for lifter’s elbow starts with your wrist.

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What Is Lifter’s Elbow?

Lifter’s elbow is just a gym nickname for elbow pain caused by repeated activity. “It’s not different from tennis or golfer’s elbow,” says Maggie Strode , a certified hand therapist and occupational therapist at Dexterity Hand Therapy.…