Overuse injuries of the elbow and forearm are very common in athletes. This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of muscle stretching and deep friction massage with using wrist joint support during management of tennis elbow. This study included forty patients with tennis elbow divided into two equal groups: the first group with a mean age 38.1 ± 0.294 followed a physical therapy program ...

BACKGROUND Tennis elbow is difficult to treat. The results of surgical treatments are not convincing. Treatment studies on Achilles and patellar tendinopathy targeting the richly innervated and vascularized soft tissues outside the tendon have shown promising outcomes. The innervation patterns in the fibrous/fatty tissues superficially to the elbow extensor origin have not been clarified. MET...

Elbow injuries are a very common part of athletic injuries. In fact, there are many sports that have colloquial names for the commonly associated injuries that happened in those particular sports. Most people have heard of tennis elbow which refers to pain along the lateral aspect of the elbow with a backhand maneuver. The lateral side of the elbow is the point farthest away from the body with ...

Hypothesis: Pain is the result of fraying of Sharpey's fibers (muscle attachment to periosteum). Treatment: Heavy progressive resistance exercises to wrist en tensors. 10 repetitive maximum (RM) with elbow at 90° and 10 RM with elbow at 180°. Do twice daily. Rationale: Exercise will create a dense collagenous scar (pain-free) at the attachment. One might conclude that similar consequences would...

We read with interest the article by Karimi Mobarakeh et al. (1) titled as “Autologous Blood Injection for Treatment of Tennis Elbow”. We would like to congratulate the authors for taking up such a study. However, we have several considerations regarding this manuscript: 1. What was the number of patients who received the local steroid injections before being in the study and also, what was the...

BACKGROUND The TATE trial was a multicentre pragmatic randomized controlled trial of supplementing primary care management (PCM)-consisting of a GP consultation followed by information and advice on exercises-with transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), to reduce pain intensity in patients with tennis elbow. This paper reports the health economic evaluation. METHODS AND FINDINGS A...

AIM Despite the lateral epicondylitis or tennis elbow is a common cause of pain in orthopaedic and sports medicine, the results of the different modalities of conservative treatment are still contradictory. The pourpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of radial shock wave therapy (RSWT) in the treatment of tennis elbow. METHODS In a prospective randomized controlled single-blind st...

Background:  Elbow surgery is shared by several subspecialties. We were curious about the most common elbow surgeries and their corresponding diagnoses in the United States.   Methods:  We used the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) and the National Survey of Ambulatory Surgery (NSAS) data gathered in 2006-databases that together provide an estimate of all inpatient and ambulatory surgic...