Tennis Elbow and Preventions

As anyone who has ever experienced tennis elbow will know, the pain, while not being excruciating does have a negative effect on performance. Tennis elbow is caused by tiny tears in the tendon connecting the elbow to the muscles in the lower arm. So how do we keep performance high during our time away from the practice court? This article will answer this question and allow you to return to action feeling fitter and just as confident in your game as before you were injured.

As I have spent time nursing this particular injury I have needed to keep my tennis fitness levels high. I did this by developing my speed, rotational power and movement around the court, all of which I will touch upon in this article. Working on these aspects of fitness helped me deal with the frustration of not being able to actually play and benefited me greatly in the long run.Tennis elbow is a painful condition that responds well to treatment with anti inflammatory drugs. This condition is caused by the degeneration of the tendons that cause them to become inflamed. A person suffering from this kind of pain often finds it difficult to grip anything properly. Tennis elbow surgery is recommended only if the initial efforts at remedying this condition with prescription drugs have failed to give the desired results.

Here's how it works. One autumn Saturday morning, you're doing some backyard work - work of the raking, shoveling, nailing-things-back-in-place nature. You spend the morning raking leaves and pine cones, bent over, pulling the rake toward you, lifting it up, turning, dropping in a new spot, pulling again, etc. After a couple of hours, you get your piles in order and pull your "green" garbage can over, deftly scoop the leaves with your rake and drop them in the can. By the end of you third or fourth pile, you're feeling that tired, weak, somewhat pleasant feeling in your biceps, forearms, low back and gluteus maximus.

So, perhaps you take a lunch break for an hour to relax, refresh and admire your work. But the weekend doesn't last long, and there's more work to do. For one, the fence boards are coming loose in places and a couple of the posts can use some proper finish work. So you hoist your already-tired body out of your chasse lounge and pick up a hammer. You drum in a few new nails here and there, cut some 2X4s and tack them onto 10 or so posts. Before you know it, it is 4:00 in the afternoon, you're back is sore and your hammering arm is really tired. But you keep going because you have just three more posts to finish.

 The technical name for a tennis elbow is extensor elbow tendinitis. It occurs in people that do repetitive elbow and wrist tasks like typing on the computer or sorting bottles in a factory. Tennis elbow is a very painful injury and prevents normal movements of the arm like turning a door knob or straightening up your arms. If you don't intervene and get treatment, you may get chronic pain and extreme stiffness of your elbow.The most common way in treating this condition is simply by resting it and consuming pain killers. However, if you take too many pain killers you may develop side efforts like stomach ulcers or heart problems. As a result, you need to find ways that you can treat this condition without the above side effects.

Preventions

Below are six home cure tennis elbow treatments that you can use.

1. Rest. You should try as much as possible to rest your fingers, wrist, and forearm muscles. This will allow you tendon to heal. You should stop any activities that you think might be causing your tennis elbow pain. You may have to do this for a number of weeks and the length of time will depend on the severity of your tendon damage.

2. Use ice packs. You should try to place an ice pack on the injured area at least three times a day for the duration of your injury. This will help with the pain, swelling, and inflammation. For the first 72 hours after your injury you should leave the ice pack on for 10 minutes and reapply every hour. After this you can use the ice pace for 15 to 20 minutes approximately three times a day. You can do this in the morning, afternoon, and about two hours before bed.

3. Wear a counter force brace. A counter force brace should be worn during any activities that involve grasping or arm twisting movements. This brace is a strap that is worn around your forearm just below the elbow. This helps to spread the pressure throughout your arm. It should be noted that these braces are not a substitute for exercises that should also be performed.

4. Elevate your elbow. As much as possible you should try to elevate your elbow as this will help to relieve the pain and reduce any swelling in your wrist and forearm.

The third method is to use compression. You can get specific wraps that can be placed around your wrist and arm and this is another method that can be used to keep the swelling to a minimum and prevent any further damage to the muscles and tendons. Compression also helps to keep everything in place.

The fourth treatment method is elevation. If you can try to keep your arm elevated above heart level it will help to prevent further swelling and help to reduce pain. Swelling is often caused when there is too much blood in the site of the injury and by elevating your arm you will be reducing the amount of blood in this area.


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