Tennis elbow - it isn’t disease only of tennis players
Cause of tennis elbow
Long-lasting overloading of elbow joint and muscle insertions which straighten wrist. It happens not only to tennis players but also to people who work with computer, screwdriver or to hard working patients.
Traumatogenic states of elbow joint.
Tennis elbow can sometimes also relate to cervical spine defects.
Tennis elbow symptoms
- Pain, swelling, erythema on outer side of elbow joint
- Morning stiffness
- Relief at rest
Urgent form of tennis elbow
It often arises from single physically demanding load. This form shows symptoms like pain on outer side of elbow which is shooting to forearm, swelling and erythema of tender spot.
We can talk about chronic disease if troubles last for more than 6 weeks.
Our workplace has already dealt with tennis elbow therapy for the long term.
Most of our patients have been treated on a regular basis, came through cortico-therapy (spray around), x-irradiation, magnetotherapy, ultrasound, DD streams and even some of them have already been after operation of tennis elbow. We also achieve excellent results of therapy with help of shock wave in these present cases.
Our results of tennis elbow therapy with help of shock wave are 95%.
Shock wave therapy
Individual impulses are applied to skin with adjusted intensity and frequency of strokes.
- the maximum depth of mechanical effect of the wave is 3,5cm
- instant cut-down of tissue tension – progressive reduction tentacle pains
- analgetic effect
- raising local vascular and metabolism
- raising absorption of calcium deposits in muscles and tissues
- raising production of bone tissue (healing of fractures)
