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My doctor told me I have tennis elbow. Could you provide me with more info?
My doctor told me I have tennis elbow. Could you provide me with more info? Thanks
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asked Apr 11, 2010 at 02:27AM in Sports Medicine
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answered Apr 22, 2010 at 11:23AMTendinopathy (tendinitis or tendinosis) is the most common condition affecting the elbow.
•It is called "tennis elbow" or lateral epicondylitis when there is an injury to the outer elbow tendon
•It is called "golfer's elbow" or medial epicondylitis when there is an injury to the inner elbow tendon
However, elbow tendinopathy can be caused by sports other than golf and tennis, as well as work-related activities that involve heavy use of the wrist and forearm muscles.
Elbow tendinopathy most often affects the dominant arm (ie, the right arm in people who are right-handed, etc.). Symptoms include:
•Pain in the elbow that spreads into the upper arm or down to the forearm
•Weakness of the forearm
•Pain can begin suddenly or can develop gradually over time
•You might have a harder time with activities that require arm strength, including sports that require you to hit backhand or throw a ball
Elbow tendinopathy is usually diagnosed based on an exam and your description of pain.
Treatment usually consists of appropriate elbow bracing and use of non-steroidal type anti-inflammatory medication. (http://www.uptodate.com) -
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answered Apr 30, 2010 at 06:43AMWhats new with tennis elbow
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Tennis Elbow...Whats new whats out and Whats Effective I am an avid tennis player with a terrible back hand technique that has caused lateral elbow epicondylitis (tennis elbow) . As a physician/patient I am also constantly seeking newer forms of treatment for my patients, and myself. WHATS NEW platelet-rich plasma (PRP) ..Tiger Woods had Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injections he received from Dr. Anthony Galea, PRP is created by taking an individual's whole blood, putting it into a centrifuge, concentrating the platelets, and injecting the platelet-rich mixture into a site of injury. While normal whole blood has about 200,000 platelets per microliter, PRP has about 2,000,000. PRP is rich in cytokines and other growth factors, but studies have yielded mixed results regarding its effectiveness in repairing various types of injuries, including tendinitis, muscle strains, ligament sprains, and fractures. The FDA has approved the treatment as a device, but its use is still considered experimental... -
0Votesanswered May 28, 2010 at 01:37AMOften a persisting problem, lateral epicondylalgia or tennis elbow similar to other on-going pains requires a wide-lens approach to incorporate changes that occur throughout the nervous system including potential somatosensory reorganisation that we see in back pain, CRPS and phantom limb pain. Detecting local physiology such as neurogenic inflammation is useful for the bottom up treatment but as pain is known to be a multisystem output from the brain (including the roles of the autonomics, immune system, endocrine system and motor system), we must look at the condition from a top down basis, i.e. why is the brain continuing to protect this region? What can we do to reduce the perceived threat value? Do we need to deal with an inflammatory source? Do we need to re-train the brain with two-point discrimination work or graded motor imagery for example? Although there is no significant work on this front in relation to tennis elbow, other conditions demonstrate these findings and therefore it seems sensible to think in these terms.
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A interesting approach that should awaken our right brain.Nicholas Cappello md commented May 28, 2010 at 02:07AM
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