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This, exactly (What Ron16 said).
I'm a Family Practice ARNP but not an ortho specialist or a PT so factor that into the extent you consider this perspective.
With either a nerve entrapment or tendonitis, inflammation is at work and causing the discomfort. When you use the limb in a way that aggravates the area, you keep it in a state of injury (inflammation) which involves a cascade of chemicals and reactions. You will be starting the healing process from the beginning each time you re-ignite the pain. There is no way to heal this except for ceasing the activity that is causing it.
It's not an exercise thing or a lack of strength thing. It's an inflammatory thing.
NSAIDs (if they're appropriate for you) and tincture of time.
A steroid injection could be helpful (or surgical decompression if there is a specific and solvable pathology) but not always. Ice also is an anti-inflammatory.
While probably not what you want to hear, I hope it's helpful.
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