Tennis elbow treatment and exercises are a part of physiotherapy. Physiotherapy for tennis elbow treatment in Gurgaon is available. Our center named Physioharbor offers end to end and complete physiotherapy for tennis elbow in Gurgaon.
What happens when someone gets a tennis elbow?
Tennis elbow is also known by the term “lateral epicondylitis”. The lateral part of the elbow is affected due to overuse of movements related to the elbow area. A strain develops in the elbow portion due to certain activities and causes injury of the tendons below the elbow’s lateral joint.
Causes of tennis elbow
● Due to sports activities like tennis, or any such sports that involve overuse of the elbow
● Hitting the elbow portion on some hard things like wall or others accidentally
● Activities like vacuuming, painting over a long period
● Activities that involve desktop work like typing for long hours
Symptoms of tennis elbow
● Inflammation around the elbow area
● Severe pain around and below the lateral side of elbow
● Pain extending to the wrist area, weakness around it
● Pain in the outside portion of the elbow area while extending the fingers
● Difficulty in holding and lifting objects, writing, brushing teeth, combing hair
A patient must wear a brace/strap two finger below the affected elbow area to initiate healing. It helps in stabilizing the elbow portion and prevents it from getting more worse.
How can physiotherapy manage tennis elbow?
● Cold therapy can provide relief to severe pain
● Rest around the affected elbow area initially and after physiotherapy
● Ultrasonic treatment
● LASER treatment
● Soft tissue manipulation
● Physiotherapy exercises for tennis elbow treatment
Physiotherapy exercises can help relieve pain from the tennis elbow after the initial and basic physiotherapy treatment.
Physiotherapy exercises for tennis elbow
1. Wrist stretching
● Extend wrist of the affected hand
● Point down the fingers of the affected hand
● Using the palm of the good hand, press the knuckle portion in the palm of the affected hand
● Stretch the fingers of the affected hand and by good hand press the affected palm
● Repeat as per the advice of the physiotherapist
2. Ball squeezing exercise
● Take a soft squeezable ball in your affected hand
● Squeeze it slowly
● Repeat it as per the advice of the physiotherapist
3. Wrist flexing holding an object
● Rest the forearm of the affected hand on a table
● The palm should face the ceiling
● Hold a small bottle in the affected hand
● Flex the wrist portion while lifting up and down with the small bottle
● Flex according to the pain tolerance
● Repeat as per the advice of the physiotherapist.
4. Extending fingers
You will need an elastic rubber band for this exercise.
● Join the fingers of the affected hand together like it would form a beak
● Put a rubber band over the knuckle portion of the fingers
● Make sure the fingertips are together
● Try pulling the fingers apart while creating resistance against the elastic band
● Repeat as per the advice of the physiotherapist
5. Isometric wrist extension
● Place the palm of the affected hand on a table, on the rest
● Raise the palm in a way that the wrist should go backward
● Hold the contractions
● While holding the contraction, you can also place the palm of the good hand over the palm of the affected hand
● Repeat as per the advice of the physiotherapist