TENNIS ELBOW SYNOPSIS

A simple and inexpensive way to alleviate the pain of tennis elbow may be just around the corner.

A rubber bar and easy wrist strengthening exercises may be the key to pain relief from this common tennis ailment that often affects 3 percent of the population, not just tennis players.

The therapy involves twisting the bar with the uninjured arm and untwisting with the injured arm. This is done with three sets of 15 repetitions.

This exercise  has many advantages over the common treatments of cortisone shots or nitric oxide. The bar exercise is cheap and not limited by the patient having to come to a clinic at regular visits.

Though this study was conducted on only 21 patients, the results were dramatic with improvement in pain by as much as 81 percent.