Tennis elbow  

Is your tennis elbow pain related to a specific, dangerous movement or activity that you do regularly?

Did you know that Tennis elbow affects people who are in the age
group of 35-65 years?  Tennis Elbow is usually associated with a
pain on the outside of the elbow and is usually tender to the touch.

Tennis elbow as the name might suggest, does not affect only tennis
players in fact, 95% of all reported cases in the Unites States
alone are not reported by tennis players.

A better understanding of the various groups of people more
susceptible to tennis elbow actually aids faster diagnosis, and
there is a high probability that such people might not know they
are part of the high risk category, affected people usually ignore
tennis elbow symptoms till it becomes a chronic problem.

Based on the occupation/sports that a person is engaged in there
are two major groups of people that are susceptible to tennis elbow:

* People engaged in Manual Labour

There is a strong co-relation between the type of activity a person
engages in and tennis elbow, since manual labour involves lifting
of heavy weights, or involves more than normal stress on the wrists,
arm and elbow, people like labourers, carpenters, plumbers are
usually a high risk category for tennis elbow.

In addition tasks that involve long durations of wrist and elbow
movement like painting also can lead to tennis elbow.

Apart from manual labourers, there are also weight lifters that are
a part of this hight risk category, especially professional weight
lifters that have been lifting weights since a very young age, make
themselves susceptible to tennis elbow.


* Athletes

Tennis elbow is called so because, tennis players were one of the
first group of people who reported the problem, this does not mean
that only tennis players are afflicted by tennis elbow, however
people who are engaged in racquet sports like badminton are also
equally susceptible to tennis elbow.

Athletes like golfers and those competing in more weight oriented
sports like the shot put and the discuss throw have also been known
to be affected by tennis elbow.

Essentially athletes are susceptible to wear and tear of the
forearm, and elbow - especially those that require extensive wrist
movement are more susceptible to tennis elbow.


Since certain activities are more likely to affect a particular
part of the elbow or arm, the symptoms experienced by people
suffering from tennis elbow also vary, where as pain on the outside
of the elbow is a common symptom other than that the, symptoms can
vary from shooting pain in the forearm, to pain while lifting
weights or pain during simple activities like using a wrench.

Depending on the particular tendon group that is damaged and other
deciding factors, differential diagnosis of tennis elbow is divided
into categories like:

- anconeus compartment syndrome
- bursitis
- cervical radiculopathy
- radio-humeral joint dysfunction
- lateral epicondyle avulsion
- musculocutaneus nerve entrapment
- non-union of radial neck fracture
- osteoarthritis
- posterior interosseous syndrome
- posterolateral rotatory instability
- radial nerve tension
- radial tunnel syndrome
- rheumatoid arthritis
- strained lateral collateral ligaments
- snapping plicae syndrome

Whew...that was a long list!

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