I Had Three Cortisone Shots, Two Years of Physio, and a Brace I Never

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I Had Three Cortisone Shots, Two Years of Physio, and a Brace I Never Took Off. Then I Found Out I'd Been Treating the Wrong Thing

For years, I thought I was just one of the unlucky ones.

I’d played golf my whole adult life. Done my own DIY. Spent weekends in the garden. Active, physical, outdoors — that was me.

And then, somewhere around my late 40s, my right elbow started to go.

Not dramatically. No single moment. Just… a slow, grinding ache that started after a round of golf and stopped going away.
At first I ignored it. Then I iced it. Then I rested it for two weeks.

Then it came back the moment I picked up a club again.

I tried physio. I tried a brace. I tried anti-inflammatories. I had a cortisone shot that my GP told me would sort it out in a week.

And it did. For about three weeks.

Then it came back.

I spent two and a half years cycling through the same solutions and getting the same result.

I quietly stopped telling people my elbow was still a problem. I modified my swing. I stopped certain gardening tasks. I started using my left hand for things that used to be automatic with my right.

I’d accepted it.

I thought this was just what getting older felt like.

Then a mate of mine — a retired tennis player who’d had the same problem for years — sent me a video he’d stumbled across online.

A doctor I’d never heard of. Saying something I’d never been told.

And everything I’d been doing for two and a half years was wrong

The Truth About Tennis Elbow That No One Warns You About

This doctor’s name is Dr. Richard Calloway. And he’s not your typical sports injury physician.

While most GPs hand out cortisone prescriptions and tell you to rest…

Dr. Calloway has spent 18 years specifically studying why chronic lateral and medial epicondylitis — tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow — keeps coming back in active men over 45.

And what he says to most patients on their first visit will stop you cold.

“Cortisone doesn’t treat tennis elbow. It borrows time. And every injection you have is making the underlying problem worse.” — Dr. Richard Calloway, M.D.

Because here’s the reality.

Tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow aren’t inflammation problems.

They’re a muscle imbalance problem that creates inflammation as a symptom.

The forearm has 24 muscles. The flexors — the ones that close the hand, grip the club, hold the trowel — get worked constantly. In every swing, every dig, every carry.

The extensors, which need to balance that load and protect the tendons at the elbow, get almost nothing.

Over years and decades, that imbalance creates chronic overload at the extensor tendon insertion point — right at the lateral epicondyle. That’s the bump on the outside of your elbow that hurts when you shake hands or lift a kettle.

The pain is real. The inflammation is real.

But the cause isn’t inflammation. The cause is an imbalance that’s been building since your 30s.

And until you correct that imbalance, nothing — not rest, not braces, not injections — will stop it coming back.

Why Every Solution I Tried Was Always Going to Fail

I’d spent two and a half years doing the right things. The things my GP told me to do. The things the physio told me to do.

Dr. Calloway explained exactly why none of them worked.

Rest reduces inflammation temporarily. But the moment you return to golf, tennis, DIY — the same loading pattern resumes. The same imbalance continues. The inflammation comes back within days. You’re not fixing anything. You’re just pausing it.

Cortisone injections suppress the inflammatory response. That’s it. They do nothing for the muscle imbalance driving the overload. And there is now significant clinical evidence that repeated cortisone injections weaken tendon integrity over time.

Every injection is borrowing relief from your future. I’d had three.

Braces and straps offload the tendon by compressing the muscle belly below it. Some short-term pain relief. But they don’t correct the imbalance. They mask the signal while the damage continues. A lot of men wear them for years and never actually get better.

Standard physio exercises — wrist curls, eccentric wrist extensions, stress ball squeezes — are better than nothing. But most programmes only partially address the extensor chain and almost never include the rotational loading the joint actually needs to recover fully.

You’ve been treating the symptom every time. Nobody gave you anything that treated the cause.

That was the moment it clicked for me.

I wasn’t unlucky. I wasn’t difficult to treat.

I’d just never been given the right tool.

You Don’t Have an Elbow Problem. You Have an Imbalance Problem.

Dr. Calloway explains it like this.

Think of your forearm like a suspension bridge. Two cable systems — flexors on one side, extensors on the other — holding the joint in balance under load.

Now imagine one side of that bridge has been carrying double the load for 20 years.

The cables on the overloaded side start to fray. The anchor point — your tendon at the elbow — starts to degrade.

You can ice the fraying cables all you want. You can inject anti-inflammatories into the anchor point. You can rest the bridge for a few weeks.

But until you rebalance the load across both cable systems, the same cables will keep fraying.

That’s what’s been happening in your elbow.

The extensor chain is weak. Undertrained. Not because you’ve been lazy — but because every sport, every tool, every physical task in daily life loads the flexors and ignores the extensors.

And the joint has been paying the price.

So How Do You Actually Fix It?

When Dr. Calloway explained the problem, my first question was obvious.

So what do I actually do about it?

He said the answer is rotational loading.

Synovial fluid production — the joint’s internal lubricant and the mechanism through which tendons receive nutrients — is stimulated specifically by rotational movement under controlled load. Linear exercises don’t produce it. Static holds don’t produce it. Wrist curls don’t produce it.

You need a tool that forces the wrist and forearm through full 3D rotation under resistance. Pronation, supination, radial deviation, ulnar deviation — all at once. Under a load you can control and progressively increase.

For a long time, that tool didn’t really exist in a practical form.

Then Dr. Calloway showed me the Gripzilla Tornado.

Meet the Device That Finally Made the Pain Stop

The Gripzilla Tornado is a rotational friction resistance device designed specifically to load the forearm through 3D movement.

It’s not a grip trainer.

It’s not a stress ball.

It’s not a wrist roller.

It’s the first tool I’ve encountered that actually addresses the root cause of chronic tennis and golfer’s elbow.

Here’s how it works.

Rotational friction across 3D movement. The Tornado forces the wrist through pronation, supination, and full radial and ulnar deviation — simultaneously, under adjustable resistance. This is exactly the stimulus required to activate the extensor chain, drive synovial fluid into the joint, and begin correcting the imbalance that’s been causing the pain.

Adjustable resistance from day one. If your elbow is already inflamed and sensitive, you can start at the lowest setting and work up. No fixed load forcing you past your current threshold. No sudden resistance spikes that aggravate the tendon.

Eccentric loading built in. Eccentric exercise — loading the muscle as it lengthens — is the most evidence-backed intervention for tendinopathy. The Tornado delivers it naturally through the rotational movement. No separate programme required.

10 minutes a day. That’s all. The same amount of time you’ve spent icing your elbow for two years. Except this time, something is actually changing.

The Results Speak for Themselves

Once I started using the Tornado — consistently, 10 minutes every morning — here’s what happened.

By the end of week one, I felt a deep burn in the forearm I’d never felt from any other exercise. Not pain. Fatigue. The extensors firing for the first time.

By week three, I played nine holes. No strap. No ice after. A dull ache that evening but nothing like before.

By week six, I played 18. Full round. Carried my bag. And woke up the next morning without reaching for the ibuprofen.

Two and a half years of the same cycle. Six weeks of the right tool. That’s the difference.

I’m not the only one.

"I’d had tennis elbow in both arms on and off for four years. Three cortisone shots in the right, two in the left. Every time it came back within a month. My consultant was talking about surgery. I started using the Tornado six weeks before my next appointment. Went in expecting to book the procedure. My consultant measured my grip strength and range of movement and said ‘whatever you’re doing, keep doing it.’ Surgery is off the table."
— David M., 54, Manchester

"I’m a keen gardener and I’d basically written off the digging season for the second year running. The elbow just couldn’t take it. Five weeks on the Tornado and I spent a full weekend clearing the back garden. The ache that night was nothing — normal muscle tiredness, not that grinding tendon pain I’d had for years. My wife noticed before I did."
— Graham T., 49, Surrey

"Golf, DIY, occasional tennis — I’d had to cut all of it back. The elbow was ruling my weekends. I was skeptical about another gadget but I was at the point where I’d try anything. The burn on the first session told me it was hitting something different. Week four I was back on the course. Week eight I shot my best round in three years. I genuinely don’t know why this isn’t what every physio recommends first."
— Pete H., 52, Edinburgh

Think About Your Elbow Right Now…

Wouldn’t you welcome even just a week without reaching for the ibuprofen?

How much better would that round of golf feel if your elbow wasn’t the thing you were managing all the way round?

Imagine getting back into the garden. Back on the court. Back under the car on a Saturday morning without dreading the ache the next day.

How much of what you’ve quietly given up would come back?

I know the answer because I’ve lived it

And that’s exactly what the Gripzilla Tornado gave me back.

So, How Much Does It Cost?

Gripzilla’s mission is to make the Tornado available to as many men as possible.

That’s why they sell directly to customers online — no middleman, no clinic markup.

A single session of sports physio focused on epicondylitis typically costs £60–£80. Most men need 8–12 sessions before seeing meaningful improvement — if the underlying imbalance is even addressed at all.

You won’t pay anything close to that.

For a limited time, the Gripzilla Tornado is available at 30% off with free shipping on your first order.

One device. Used 10 minutes a day. Addressing the root cause that two and a half years of physio, rest, and cortisone never touched.

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You Don’t Have to Say Yes Today. Just Say… Maybe.

Gripzilla wants to make sure there’s zero risk for anyone who tries the Tornado.

They believe in this product so much that they’re offering a 30-day results-or-refund guarantee.

They don’t want you spending any money unless you feel the difference.

That means you have a full month to use the Tornado every day.

If your elbow pain hasn’t measurably improved — if the morning ache is the same, if the post-golf flare is unchanged — you get every penny back.

No questions. No hoops.

You’ll have nothing to lose.

Just 10 minutes a day and 30 days to find out if this is the thing that finally works.

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Don’t spend another season modifying your swing, avoiding the garden, or reaching for the ibuprofen.

The imbalance that’s been causing this is fixable.

And the fix is 10 minutes a day.

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Dr. Richard Calloway, M.D.

Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience. Works with men recovering from chronic overuse injury, joint degeneration, and grip-related conditions.

* The information on this page is intended for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Individual results may vary. Consult your healthcare provider before beginning any new rehabilitation or training programme. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.