Tennis / Golfers Elbow
Tennis or Golfers Elbow is also known as lateral and medial epicondylitis. This is a repetitive stress disorder that used to be primarily seen in tennis players and golfers but is now more prevalent in people that work all day at the computer.
This disorder is also commonly seen in weightlifters, musicians, grocery checkers, and any job that requires repetitive hand grasping, lifting, and twisting.
The muscles that extend the hand and wrist, known as the extensor wad, attach at the lateral epicondyle. With repetitive motion, inflammation and adhesions form inside these muscles and between muscle groups, leading to lateral epicondylitis. The same is true of the flexor wad and their attachment to the medial epicondyle.
People with this condition typically have pain with grasping, lifting, driving, and keying. Things as monotonous as lifting a morning cup of coffee can even be difficulty and painful.
Our office has a variety of effective and non-invasive techniques to deal with medial and lateral epicondylitis. They include active myofascial release of the flexor/extensor wad, specific manipulation of the elbow joint, cold laser therapy, muscle stimulation, bracing, cryotherapy, stretching and progressive strengthening.
It is hard to remove the aggravating factors for this condition, so most of the time this condition will not resolve on its own.
