Tennis Elbow

Tennis elbow is also familiar as lateral epicondylitis. When the outer part of your elbow turns tender the situation is called tennis elbow. It’s a quite painful ailment. Though it’s called tennis elbow but it can happen to anybody.

Some effective cures:

•    To get some effective relief you can also use some ginger compress, even ginger tea is also able to give some relief from inflammation.

•    Avocado oil has also been recommended for treating tennis elbow. You can massage the area gently with some avocado oil for some effective results.

•    Try to ingest foods those are rich in omega-3 fatty acid (like- salmon, flax seeds etc), because it’s able to lower the joint pain.

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NEW YORK – Shock wave therapy is useless for the treatment of tennis elbow, researchers informed. “There is currently no place for shock wave therapy in the management of tennis elbow,” Dr. Rachelle Buchbinder from Monash University, Australia.

Tennis elbow, common injury caused due to the overuse of tendons around the outer side of the elbow. As the name explains, it often arises in racquet-sport devotees, but can also occur with repetitive arm motions such as, constant use of screwdriver, hammering or painting.

Though tennis elbow usually improves on its own but may persist in some people. So-called extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) has been tested to treat tennis elbow, in which shock waves are focused on the problem area. ESWT is believed to work by causing microscopic injuries to the affected tissue that stimulate the healing process.

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