In reply to the power:
I'm halfway through writing up a blog about Golfer's elbow having had it badly in the past (to the point of pain carrying a pint of milk), and then recovering, but here's a quick rough summary:
• Make sure it's definitely golfers and not pronator teres or something else
• Do eccentric exercises, lots of them - how you do them is really important, the elbow angle, the weight, the reps, the speed (Dave Mac's book is good on this as is Julian Saunders blog below - tho I needed to increase the reps and weight more than DM recommends). Basically you need to irritate the tendon, it has to cause some discomfort, and the weight needs to be sufficient to require almost max effort after 15 reps.
• Make sure your posture is good and strengthen your core, shoulders and triceps.
• Try and do less computer based work or if you have to take 5 mins every 25 mins rest.
• Stretch
More here
http://drjuliansaunders.com/dodgy-elbows/
http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/rock-climbing-injury-dodgy-elbows-revi...
Don't rest completely unless it's so bad it causes pain when washing hair etc, if so, just do the eccentrics and stretching. Otherwise climb, but try not to do too much or aggravate it.
It's caused by poor healing cycles in the tendon, so you need to strengthen and rehabilitate your way out of it. Plenty of other little things that will make a difference (armaid, massage etc are all secondary to good eccentrics and stretching).
Collagen (the tissue that reforms the tendon) takes about 100 days to form in the tendons, so don't expect a quick fix ie probably at least 3 months if you've got it badly. But one day you wake up and it's magically gone. I'll get round to finishing the blog at some point.
Post edited at 11:21