Pain in and around the outside of your elbow could be a sign that you suffer from tennis elbow. Although your tennis backhand can be the culprit, there can be many other causes for your pain. Your elbow joint is connected by muscles, ligaments and tendons to your hand and wrist, so any activity with gripping or using your arm can contribute to this injury.

Tennis Elbow Symptoms

Your Tennis Elbow can cause Nerve Pain

Tennis elbow is also known as lateral epicondylitis which is inflammation around your elbow. Everyday activities may aggravate it, causing sharp pain to radiate from your elbow into your forearm and wrist. You may have the following signs and symptoms:

• Pain when you shake hands
• Pain when you open a door
• Pain when you drink a cup of coffee
• Pain when you push around your elbow
• Pain driving your car or playing golf
• Pain when you use a hammer or screwdriver
• Pain when you use a computer mouse
• Loss of motion and clicking in your elbow

Tennis Elbow Causes

• Overuse of any activity using your hand, wrist or elbow
• Anything that causes Inflammation around your elbow joint
• When you grip objects tightly or clench your fists
• Tight forearm muscles
• Misalignment of your elbow, wrist, or shoulder
• Misalignment of your neck or upper back
• Pinched nerves in your neck, upper back, or arm

Tennis Elbow Treatment

To properly treat your tennis elbow pain, you should consider the following treatments:

• Apply ice to your elbow for 20 minutes then take an hour break
• Get some rest from activities that caused your pain
• Gently stretch and move your elbow and forearm
• Have Massage Therapy to your forearm and elbow muscles
• Get Myofascial Release Therapy and deep tissue work
• Use nutritional supplements to reduce pain and inflammation
• Receive Chiropractic instrument treatments with the therapy edge tool
• Have Chiropractic treatment and alignment of your elbow, hand, wrist, and shoulder
• Get Chiropractic treatment and alignment for your neck, upper back, and nerves

Try this 1 minute Stretch for Tennis Elbow:

Tennis Elbow Pain Relief Care

All of the treatments listed above are available in our Chiropractic and Massage Therapy Office in Hanover. If you would like help resolving your pain or injury quickly call our office at 781-829-9300 to schedule an appointment for a consultation, exam, and treatment. Click here to read more on Tennis Elbow Pain at WebMD.

Best Regards,

Dr. Sarro