Tennis Elbow
Fitness is defined differently by everyone, but for me, the most important thing is being healthy. As tennis players, what we do is not the healthiest thing. We almost abuse our bodies - Sania Mirza
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Phys Ed: An Easy Fix for Tennis Elbow?
In a medical advance inspired by recessionary thinking, researchers from the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City announced last month that they’ve developed an effective and supremely cheap treatment for chronic tennis elbow. Huddling a while back to brainstorm about inexpensive methods for combating the injury, the scientists glanced around their offices and noticed a homely, low-tech rubber bar, about 8 inches long, which, at the time, was being used for general physical therapy programs. The researchers wondered whether the ribbed, pliable bars, available for less than $20, might be re-purposed to treat tennis elbow. The answer,…
Resources
How to Rehab Your Tennis Elbow
Tennis elbow is an overuse injury. Taking time off and performing some of the exercises above will help decrease your pain and increase the longevity of your career.
Save Yourself from Tennis Elbow!
Not just for tennis players, straight-talking advice on healing from this common tendinitis (lateral epicondylitis)
For Tennis Elbow, No Such Thing as a Quick Fix
For decades, tennis elbow was thought to be caused by inflammation in the tissues around the joint. Newer science, however, including biopsies of the sore tissues, shows little inflammation, except in the very early stages of the injury. Instead, it is thought to involve degeneration of the tissues...
A Rubber Twist On Treating Tennis Elbow Pain
Bishop says the benefit of the FlexBar, which costs between $16 and $33, over traditional hand weights is that it helps people strengthen without recreating the symptoms. He says weights can overwork the muscle and sometimes leads to more pain.
Bracing for the Pain From Golf and Tennis
While the braces, generically called "counterforce braces," haven't been adequately vetted in well-designed studies, doctors and physical therapists say they seem to ease the agony for some of their patients.
In Tennis, Hip Injuries Are the New Wrist Injuries Are the New Elbow Injuries
Is the punishing power baseline style that has defined men's tennis for over a decade catching up with players?
Tennis Elbow Doesn't Just Affect Tennis Players
Tennis elbow is a common cause of lateral-sided (thumb-sided or away from the body) elbow pain. Though the condition often affects tennis players, usually on their backhand shots or volleys, anyone can get it.
Tennis Elbow Not Exclusive to the Tennis Enthusiast: How to Manage It and Preventative Strategies
In my close to 20 years of practicing orthopedic physical therapy I have treated a myriad of different disorders, but there are always some that seem more challenging to fix than others. One of the diagnoses that falls into this category of refractory conditions is "tennis elbow" or medically-termed lateral epicondylitis.
Tennis Elbow: Lateral and Medial Epicondylitis
Recent research at NISMAT presented at the 2009 American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Meeting suggests an effective treatment for tennis elbow using wrist exercises with an inexpensive rubber bar (the TheraBand FlexBar).
Tennis Elbow: What Is It, Do You Have It, And How Do You Treat It?
There are many treatments that I have found to be extremely effective in treating tennis elbow. Here is a basic strategy that I would recommend. This protocol focuses on non-invasive therapeutic treatment options:
What's the Difference Between Tennis Elbow and Golfer's Elbow
You don't need to play golf or tennis to experience tennis of golfer's elbow. The fact is, any one can get one of these injuries really from anything,
With Elbows, Cortisone Shots May Hurt More Than Help
Go to the doctor with an aching elbow, and the prescription may well be a cortisone shot. Ah, relief! But that short-term gain may make for long-term pain. There's mounting evidence that cortisone shots, long the first response for the painful tendon problem known as tennis elbow, increases the risk of continued problems or relapse one year out.
Phys Ed: An Easy Fix for Tennis Elbow?
Tennis elbow, characterized by pain, weakness and inflammation or degeneration of the wrist-extensor tendon that connects to the elbow, is one of those intractable overuse injures that, until recently, yielded very reluctantly to treatment.
AidMyTennisElbow.com
Most sufferers of epicondylitis or chronic elbow pain can recover more quickly if they treat their injury correctly. That means consulting with a physician to ensure they are using the right therapies every single day. In the following section, I will explain why the Freezie Wrap® and Inferno Wrap® therapies are applicable for many patients suffering from epicondylitis.
Tennis Elbow Classroom
Discover how you can release and “roll-back” months or even years of sticky, stubborn “STUFF” restricting your muscles and tendons (deep at the ROOT of your elbow pain and injury) – with three simple, but powerful therapy methods:
Tennis Elbow Secrets Revealed
Step-by-step guide on how to cure tennis elbow.
Tennis Elbow Treatment
This resource exists to serve 2 purposes. First, to educate those suffering from Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis) and provide them with an easily understood description of what it is AND what can be done about it.
Tenex
Use Tenex® ESA to protect yourself from tennis elbow, golfers elbow, carpal tunnel, muscle stress and fatigue!
TennisElbowRacquets
This website is about how you can prevent and eliminate tennis elbow by using the right tennis racquet and tennis string rather than completely relying on form and conditioning. It is divided into three areas, tennis racquets, tennis strings and tennis elbow bands.
ITF
Tennis elbow is the best-known and also the most painful elbow injury in tennis players. An estimated 50% of all tennis players will suffer from tennis elbow in the course of their career. Players aged over 35 are particularly at risk.
OrthoInfo
Recent studies show that tennis elbow is often due to damage to a specific forearm muscle. The extensor carpi radialis brevis (ECRB) muscle helps stabilize the wrist when the elbow is straight. This occurs during a tennis groundstroke, for example. When the ECRB is weakened from overuse, microscopic tears form in the tendon where it attaches to the lateral epicondyle. This leads to inflammation and pain.
Sports Injury Clinic
No single treatment for lateral epicondylitis has been shown to be totally effective, however a combination of the treatments below are known to resolve tennis elbow over time. Each individual will react differently to different treatments.
UpToDate
A special type of strengthening exercise, known as “eccentric strengthening,” is the most effective way to treat elbow tendinopathy. Patients can start these exercises once their flexibility has improved and they have little or no pain when performing a strengthening exercise. Eccentric strengthening involves working the affected wrist extensor tendon and muscle while they are lengthening. Patients can use a weight, elastic band, or a specially designed rubber bar to do these exercises, and they may be done under supervision or independently. Eccentric training was superior when compared to other types of strengthening.
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