Ouch, that hurts to pick up my coffee cup! You look down and realize that the outside of your elbow is sore. Not thinking much of it, you continue daily life with intermittent symptoms. But then one day several months later you realize your elbow is hurting all of the time – with exercise, housework, and activities like golf and tennis. Chances are you have developed lateral epicondylitis, aka “tennis elbow”.
At LifeMotion, tennis elbow is one of the more common orthopedic injuries we treat. Technically, the pain occurs due to inflammation and injury to the wrist extensor tendons that originate at the outside of the elbow. Responsible for activities that involve gripping objects, wrist extensor tendon injuries most often occur with repetitive overuse.
Unfortunately this is an injury that can hang around for a long time. The primary reason is that tendons have a limited blood supply. Remember blood delivers all of the good stuff needed for the body to heal itself. So the key to solving this problem is to improve the vascularity in the region, then perform therapeutic exercise at the proper level to stimulate healing. The great news is that your LifeMotion clinical team has both the knowledge and tools to help you through this tough problem quickly and completely.
