Do you suffer from pain in your elbow also known as Tennis Elbow? The medical term is lateral epicondylitis, a very common condition, causing pain and tenderness, often very severe, over the outside area of the elbow especially when lifting or gripping activities. You might also notice your grip strength is reduced.
Treatment
at PhysioWorks will progress you through the different phases of the injury.
Elbow Pain Treatment Phase 1
- Reduce pain
- Rest from aggravating activities
- Physiotherapy to ease pain e.g. soft tissue massage, joint mobilisation, acupuncture, ultra sound, taping and stretches and advice re management.
- Sometimes treatment to the neck is required.
Elbow Pain Treatment Phase 2
- When acute pain settled “eccentric” exercises can be commenced to strengthen the elbow and reduce pain.
Elbow Pain Treatment Phase 3
- Get back to normal activities/sport
- Generally tissues need approx. 3 months to strengthen and in some cases 6 months. Take this into consideration when completing this programme, especially if you have had this elbow problem for some time.
