Tennis Elbow... or a Marionette Puppet?Happy 2012 everybody! It takes a few weeks to get the year going, doesn’t it!? As the Australian Open Tennis Tournament is about to kick off in my home town of Melbourne, I thought I would write today’s article on tennis elbow.
90 to 95% of people I see with tennis elbow, didn’t actually get it from playing tennis!
Tennis elbow has a far more technical name, but what fun is that? I enjoy the slang names society makes up for injuries, as much as the medical toffs abhor it. Skiiers thumb, jumpers knee, golfers elbow…laymen can be so much more logical than scientists (who would say ulnar collateral ligament sprain of the first metacarpo-phalangeal joint, patellar tendinopathy and medial epicondylitis, for the previous three conditions).
I do wonder, though, if we got it a bit wrong with tennis elbow. As excited as I was when I first saw a tennis elbow that actually
Nevertheless, tennis elbow is our habitual moniker, and an identifiable term.
Tennis elbow is a mighty stubborn condition to treat. Try and count how many times you use your hands each day – Hundreds? Thousands? Exactly – the forearm is easy to overload, and difficult to rest. Outsmart and avoid tennis elbow – read this article!
Stay well and active.
