The following information, compiled by David Poyourow
poy@irvine.dg.com, may be useful to readers
suffering from tennis elbow.
Ultimately, you have to rest it for a long time for
it to recede.
A doctor can prescribe anti-inflammatories like
naprosin, although you might find ibuprofin works for you. A doctor can also give a
shot of cortisone, or even arthroscopic surgury for it, but that is treating the symptom,
not the cause.
Stretch the tendon before you play by extending
your elbow and then extending and flexing your wrist.
Ice your elbow down after you play.
Strengthen your grip to relieve the stress on your
elbow with one of those blobs or springs you crush in your hand.
Relearn your strokes to remove 'wristy-ness'.
Use a locked wrist type stroke.
Try a shock absorber on the strings.
I have done all of the above and my elbow seldom
bothers me; however, once you get it, you will always have a tendency to have it.
Those bands that people put on their forearms
change the position of the tendon, which allows you to abuse a fresh part of the tendon;
perhaps while doing this, the old irritated part will heal.
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