Bigeclipse
Contributor
All,
I got into side mount last summer and I absolutely LOVE it. I feel so much better under water in side mount than traditional back mount or doubles. That being said, I got some major tennis elbow last year from carrying my tanks in and out of the water. I use steel 100s (I dive freshwater cold lakes in a drysuit). The steel tanks hanging from my right arm ended up giving me pretty severe tennis elbow. My left arm got very minor tennis elbow. My left arm was feeling better within a month after diving season but my right arm took 6 months and physical therapy to get rid of 95% of the pain. Here we are 10 months later and I still get small amounts of pain here and there (It still faintly hurts if I move a heavy object with my arm without paying attention). This has me concerned for this diving season. I know I could go to lighter tanks, but then that limits the lengths of my dives. I could carry one tank at a time with both hands, to the water...but some of our locations have long walks and carts are not an option. I could go back to back mount, but after diving side mount and loving it, I really dont want to. I am open to any and all comments.
I got into side mount last summer and I absolutely LOVE it. I feel so much better under water in side mount than traditional back mount or doubles. That being said, I got some major tennis elbow last year from carrying my tanks in and out of the water. I use steel 100s (I dive freshwater cold lakes in a drysuit). The steel tanks hanging from my right arm ended up giving me pretty severe tennis elbow. My left arm got very minor tennis elbow. My left arm was feeling better within a month after diving season but my right arm took 6 months and physical therapy to get rid of 95% of the pain. Here we are 10 months later and I still get small amounts of pain here and there (It still faintly hurts if I move a heavy object with my arm without paying attention). This has me concerned for this diving season. I know I could go to lighter tanks, but then that limits the lengths of my dives. I could carry one tank at a time with both hands, to the water...but some of our locations have long walks and carts are not an option. I could go back to back mount, but after diving side mount and loving it, I really dont want to. I am open to any and all comments.