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Tennis Elbow – extremely tiring condition with which normal usage of the arm is impossible, and which prevents us from performing even the simplest daily tasks.
Traditionally, in conventional medicine, every elbow pain located in the area of lateral epicondyle of the humerus (clod-bone) is diagnosed as tennis elbow without further consideration. Most frequently, we hear that the fault lies in an inflammation. Therefore, every kind of treatment will consist of anti-inflammatory and regenerating actions. As a consequence, we will be prescribed with the anti-inflammatory medication, anti-inflammatory physical therapies, and prohibition of heavy lifting, because it may cause worsening of the inflammation.
Now it gets interesting: since 1992 it is common knowledge that inflammation don’t occur in this condition (Regan et al. 1992; Potter et al. 1992; Cawston et al. 1994).
Every therapy focused on epicondyle are ineffective as there can be many causes of the problem. In the next article, we will prove that epicondyle is only the victim, and not the source of the problem
Regan W., Wold L.E., Coonrad R., Morrey B.F., 1992: „Microscopic histopathology of chronic refractory lateral epicondylitis”, Am. J. Sports.
Potter H.G., Hannafin J.A., Morwessel R.M., DiCarlo E 18. .F., O’Brien S.J. Altchek D.W, 1992: „Lateral epicondylitis: correlation of MR imaging, surgical, and histopathologic findings”. Radiology, 1995, 196, 43–46.
Chard M.D., Cawston T.E., Riley G.P., Gresham G.A., Hazkeman B.L., 1994: „Rotator cuff degeneration and lateral epicondylitis: a comparative histological study”. Ann. Rheum. Dis. 1994, 53, 30–34.