Tennis Elbow Symtoms and Treatment
Tennis Elbow Treatment
Before we get into the various types of tennis elbow treatment, it is important to first understand the nature of this condition.
Tennis Elbow or Lateral Epicondylitis
Lateral epicondylitis, (lateral epicondylagia), or what is better known as tennis elbow, is characterized by the inflammation of tendons on the outside part of the elbow, near the bony prominence of the forearm.
Overuse and repetitive movements of the forearm muscles and wrist results to this elbow pain, and as its name suggest, it was derived from the common tennis player’s forearm problem.
Causes of Tennis Elbow
Any repetitive movement of the arm involving the wrist, such as playing tennis and other racquet sports, playing golf, excessive use of hammer or screwdriver, hedge clipping, gardening, painting, or any other activity that puts pressure and strain to the forearm can cause tennis elbow problems.
This condition specifically involves the part of the forearm where the muscles and tendons are attached to the outside bony area of the elbow. Usually, this problem usually occurs in the dominant hand, stress is usually present. However, it can also occur in the non-dominant arm or even both arms, which is quite common for people who spend long hours all day every day in front of the computer typing.
Tennis Elbow Symptoms
Before looking for any tennis elbow treatment, it is crucial that you assess the condition first, for more effective healing process.
Symptoms tennis elbow are easy to diagnose, and if you are constantly exposed to physical activities that usually lead to it, then you most likely have developed the condition.
Common symptoms Tennis Elbow include:
* Pain when squeezing objects, opening doors, opening bottles and even when shaking someone’s hands.
* Pain slowly intensifies on the outside part of the elbow, less often, pain may just develop quickly.
* Pain intensifies when stabilizing or moving the wrist by force, such as stretching, lifting objects, opening bottled jars, or even using simple utensils such as using knife and fork.
When to seek tennis elbow treatment
Though tennis elbow is not a life-threatening condition and usually does not lead to other serious health problems. Tennis Elbow can, however, be very debilitating and can leave you feeling very uncomfortable and weak even doing simple chores.
If symptoms still persist and left ignored people suffering from this condition may lose motion and function in their forearm and elbow. Thus, it is very important to seek for professional tennis elbow treatment as soon as the condition develops. If in any doubt, go and see a doctor.
Tennis elbow warning signs that you should not ignore
If you have any of the following tennis elbow symptoms you should see your doctor:
* Pain that persists despite of using cold compress, resting for a couple of days or more, and using topical analgesics and anti-inflammatory pain relievers.
* Pain significantly affects and limits daily activity.
* Weakness and numbness of the hand, which may even lead to additional type of injury along the arm, elbow and wrist.
Diagnosis of Tennis Elbow
Tennis elbow can’t be diagnosed through any types of blood tests and rarely by X-rays. What doctors do is diagnose the condition based on the description of the pain and particular findings from a physical exam.
Since there are many other conditions that contribute to pain around the elbow, it is very important that you seek professional advice from your doctor to get the right diagnosis. Then your doctor can prescribe the appropriate tennis elbow treatment.
Tennis elbow treatment
Tennis elbow treatment is usually involves medications, such as cortisone injections and exercise to rehabilitate the shoulder.
Reducing Tennis Elbow Inflammation
Doctors may prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs, but the best way to reduce the inflammation and pain of the tennis elbow is rest. Our body has a unique ability to heal itself, and most of the time it only requires ample rest for the stressed part of the body to completely heal. Rest your arm for a couple of days before engaging to physical activities again. You can also use ice-packs to reduce the inflammation and relieve the pain.
Tennis Elbow Surgery
Tennis elbow treatment rarely requires surgery. However, for cases that do requires surgery, then after-surgery braces and support is usually required to immobilize the elbow and speed-up the recovery process.
Aircast Mayo Clinic Elbow Brace
The popular choice in Amazon for this kind of elbow brace is the Aircast Mayo Clinic Elbow Brace. This brace is designed to be used right after the surgery, and its hard-wearing metal uprights provide stability from the forearm to the elbows, as it straps with aircells hold the brace securely on its position, avoiding pressure points and giving the patient comfort.
Tennis elbow treatment depends on lots of factors, including overall health of the patient, age, medical history, types of other drugs being taken and the severity of the condition. The goal of tennis elbow treatment is to reduce the inflammation and pain, decreasing stress, promote healing and to prevent further abuse on the injured elbow by providing compression, support or in some cases completely immobilizing the elbow for a faster recovery.
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Tennis Elbow Pain Cure
Filed under Elbow Brace, Tennis Elbow, Tennis Elbow Treatment by on Feb 1st, 2012. 
Do you suffer from Elbow Tendonitis or Tennis Elbow?
Elbow tendonitis, popularly known as Tennis Elbow affects millions of people, typically in the age group of 35-60 all over the world.
The association with the highly popular sport of tennis has made the medical condition tennis elbow famous. But the term tennis elbow creates a false impression. Tennis elbow’s exclusive association with the sports is false. The idea of elbow tendonitis being caused by tennis alone is a misconception. Cases of tennis elbow have been reported from people and parts or the world, who haven’t even watched tennis on TV!
Tendonitis doesn’t just affect the elbow. In fact tendonitis or severe and repetitive pain in the ‘tendons’ can and does occur in other joints in the human body too.
Elbow tendonitis symptoms
The major symptoms of Elbow tendonitis are severe and recurrent pain at the elbow joint, especially when stressed to lift a weight or during sudden movement.
In pure medical terms, the ‘elbow’ is the joint at the meeting of the upper and lower arms, where the humerus (upper arm bone) meets the twin bones of radius and ulna (lower arm bones) and the connecting tendon tissues covering both sides is called lateral epicondyles. Hence, in medical terms, the problem is referred as lateral epicondylitis. The suffix ‘itis’ is used in medical terms to convey, pain at times associated with inflammation.
Symptoms may also include tenderness on the outside of the upper arm at the elbow (lateral epicondyles) and swelling associated with pain to the touch at the inflamed joint.
Causes of Elbow tendonitis
What exactly are the causes of this syndrome, if tennis alone is not the culprit? The most important cause of Elbow tendonitis is repetitive strain on the tendon (including tennis) due to work habits such as heavy manual labor, lifting of heavy objects in the factory or porters lifting heavy cases and weight lifters.
Elbow tendonitis and Age
Elbow tendonitis may occur due to advancing age, which causes the ‘hardening’ of tendons and consequent losing the flexibility at the joint.
Injury induced elbow tendonitis
Elbow tendonitis can occur at times due to ‘one-off’ stressing of the elbow joint by putting the joint and the tendons to very high stress levels that they are not used to. This is often referred to as ‘injury induced’ tendonitis. This can also happen to athletes, body builders, weight lifters etc, who in an attempt to reach their self-defined goals, over-stretch themselves, leading to injuries. Elbow tendonitis may also occur due to injuries due to accidents, especially in the aged, who in trying to cushion a slip or fall may cause injury.
Medical conditions that may cause or trigger elbow tendonitis
Other existing medical conditions such as arthritis, diabetes may either cause or trigger elbow tendonitis. Some sports such as mountain climbing, rock climbing etc may suffer ‘thermal ‘injuries leading to tendonitis.
Treatment of elbow tendonitis
Treatment of elbow tendonitis to a great extent depends on what exactly has caused the problem.
Rest
In cases other than previous medical problems, the first treatment is to give the joint ‘total rest’ which may at times require application of suitable harness or bandaging. This helps the body’s natural recuperative process to take charge and repair the damage.
Ice Treatment
Use of ice is recommended for tendonitis triggered by injury or sudden extreme stress. Hot or cold compression helps to reduce the inflammation and tenderness at the side of the joint.
Arm elevation
Keeping the arms elevated above heart level relieves pain and help in countering swelling. Once these have failed to give desired relief, consult a doctor, who in extreme cases may suggest surgery.
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Who is most likely to suffer from Tennis Elbow?
I guess the obvious answer to the question, “Who is most likely to suffer from Tennis Elbow Pain?” would be tennis players of course!
To some extent that is true. As you would expect tennis players are a high risk group. But there are other groups at high risk of experiencing elbow pain. According to statistics, tennis elbow pain occurs more often in men than in women and it mostly occurs between the ages of 30-50. So you are statistically more likely to experience tennis elbow pain if you are a man between 30 and 50 years old.
Despite the name, it is not only tennis players that suffer from tennis elbow pain
Baseball players, mechanics, and office cleaners are examples of the most common types of job that are likely to lead to tennis elbow pain. It might surprise you, but basically any job or sport that involves repetitive use of the elbow is likely to increase your risk of elbow pain and injury.
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Filed under Elbow Pain, Tennis Elbow by on Sep 22nd, 2011.
A tennis elbow band is worn around the upper forearm and reduces the strain that is applied to your muscles.
If you suffer from elbow pain tennis elbow bands can be extremely useful. Tennis elbow bands take away some of the pain and also helps protect against further elbow damage.
Tennis elbow bands are inexpensive and I frequently recommend them to my patients. Elbow bands provide relief to the injured area, help the healing process and providing comfort.
There are a range of different elbow bands depending on the symptoms that you are suffering from.
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Filed under Tennis Elbow by on Mar 23rd, 2010. Comment.
Tennis elbow splints are commonly recommended by the physicians or therapists in the treatment of tennis elbow splint.
Tennis elbow involves inflammation of the tendons so the use of a tennis elbow splint can often help the elbow and tendons rest long enough to be able to recover and heal.
Filed under Elbow Brace, Tennis Elbow by on Mar 4th, 2010.
Tennis Elbow Treatment
Over the counter pain medications containing ibuprofen or aspirin are usually among the first treatments for tennis elbow pain. The application of ice to reduce any swelling and lessen pain is the next step. Rest and massage are also effective. A tennis elbow strap, which serves as a counter-force brace, can also be worn to reduce pain, eliminate strain on the muscles and prevent further damage.
I also recommend exercises to strengthen your elbow. For further details please enter your name and email address in the box on this page and I will send you my free Tennis Elbow Report
Filed under Elbow Pain, Tennis Elbow by on Feb 21st, 2010.
The tennis elbow brace is designed in such a way that it provides therapeutic heat and compression which is very helpful in relieving you from the tennis elbow pain.
The majority of tennis elbow braces these days come with a strap which can be fastened tight in order to lessen the muscle action of the extensor tendons of the forearm; it helps in relieving the stress on your affected tennis elbow area.
I recommend choosing a brace that provides therapeutic heat and compression and make sure you fasten the strap tightly.
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Filed under Elbow Brace, Tennis Elbow by on Feb 10th, 2010. Comment.
Elbow Bursitis is a chronic inflammation of the elbow.
Elbow Bursitis is an inflammation of the connective tissue that surrounds the elbow joint space. Symptoms of elbow bursitis include pain and swelling of the elbow.
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Filed under Elbow Pain, Tennis Elbow by on Nov 14th, 2009. Comment.
If you suffer from elbow pain it is very useful to understand how the elbow works.
The elbow joint is the hinge joint located in the center of the arm. It is a complex joint made up of three separate relationships; the humero-ulnar joint, the humeroradial joint and the superior radio-ulnar joint.
Each of these separate joints is comprised of two of the three bones of the arm; the humerus, the radius and the ulna. The bony projection at the rear of the joint, sometimes known as the funny bone, is the olecranon.
The elbow joint is considered to be the most stable joint in the human body, but is also often the site of injury and cause of pain.
For more details about the elbow joint click the link below:
Elbow Joint
Filed under Elbow Pain, Tennis Elbow by on Nov 10th, 2009. Comment.
Elbow exercises are the best way to help rehabilitate an elbow injury. They can also help to prevent elbow injuries from occurring.
I’ve just published an article about simple elbow exercises that can be done to prevent and rehabilitate an elbow injury.
All of these exercises help strengthen the muscles that support the rotation in your elbow movement and the elbow exercises should be done with care. Start slowly and work up to the level that is suggested.
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Elbow Exercises
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