If you are thinking that this tennis elbow pain occurs only to those people who use to play tennis then you are absolutely wrong. This can happen even If you are not roaming around the tennis court. And majorly this hit people with either middle age or above 40. In this blog, we will learn about Tennis elbow pain, symptoms, causes and how to manage them.

Cause of Tennis Elbow:

There are various causes that may affect tennis elbow except playing tennis. If there is a repetitive gripping motion then it will cause tennis elbow pain. The pain start developing over a time and with time it becomes unbearable. The causes that relate to tennis elbow are:-

• Playing Tennis or squash
• Weight Lifting
• Repetitive squeezing or gripping objects
• Frequent opening jar or rotating something

This pain is also associated with people who are in the job of or have a hobby that involves the repetitive movement of arms or gripping like:-

• Knitting
• Typing
• Painting
• Raking
• Carpentry

Symptoms:

The symptoms of tennis elbow involve pain and tenderness in the bony knob of the outside of the elbow. This knob is where the injured tendons connect to the bone. And this pain may also hurt the other part of your hand and arm.

How to Prevent Tennis elbow?

It is often difficult to cure or recover tennis elbow pain but you can prevent it by doing these below mention self-care piece of advice:-

• Avoid doing the repetitive task
• Do exercise of a forearm
• Take proper breaks, don’t pressurize your schedule
• Don’t break the routine of your exercise
• Choose proper posture while lifting a heavy object
• Warm-up & stretch properly

When to see a physiotherapist?

To diagnose your tennis elbow, a physiotherapist will do a thorough examination. Image test like X-Ray or MRI is also helpful in diagnosing the root cause of pain. They might ask you to do few of the movements or exercises like flex your arm, wrist, and elbow to see where it hurts. A physiotherapist may ask you to undergo few treatment sessions or may simply prescribe you some home exercise plan depending upon condition.