Common symptoms: swelling and pain in the lateral elbow, dysfunction, relief after rest, and loss of strength.
1, elbow pain This disease is mostly chronic. At the beginning of tennis elbow symptoms, patients only feel pain and slight pain on the outside of elbow joint. Patients consciously feel pain in the upper and outer elbow joints, and the pain can sometimes radiate upward or downward, feeling sore and uncomfortable and unwilling to move.
2, can not hold heavy hands can not hold things hard, take a shovel, carry a pot, twist a towel, knitting and other sports will make the pain worse.
3. Tenderness generally has localized tenderness points in the lateral epicondyle of humerus. Sometimes tenderness can be released downward, and sometimes there is mild tenderness and activity pain even on the extensor tendon.
4, local no redness, elbow flexion and extension is not affected, but forearm rotation can be painful. In severe cases, it can cause pain when fingers are straight, wrists are stretched or chopsticks are held. When the affected limb is in the elbow flexion forearm supination position, the extensor is in a relaxed state, so the pain is relieved. A few patients feel that their pain is aggravated in rainy days.
Tennis elbow susceptible population:
1, tennis, badminton and baseball players. This kind of athletes often suffer from this disease, especially tennis players, hence the name tennis elbow. Because tennis players have to swing repeatedly, it is easy to tear and crack the muscles and tendons near the elbow joint, which leads to the onset of tennis elbow.
2. Middle-aged and elderly people. Because of their age, these people often have weak body functions, tendon fibers are degraded and aging, and they often can't recover quickly after injury, so the probability of tennis elbow is also high.
3. Housewives, bricklayers, carpenters, repairmen and other people who work with their elbows repeatedly. Such people often work with their elbows, so the chances of elbow injuries increase. In the past, some tendons and soft tissues attached to the elbow were torn by fibers, which led to the onset of tennis elbow.
Exercise method of tennis elbow:
1. Grip strength: rubber balls and other items can be used, generally about 3 to 5 minutes, three times a day, and the time and times can be gradually increased, but one time should not be too long.
2. Stretching muscle traction: stretching elbow and bending wrist traction, with a maximum of 5 digits, and repeating 10 times as a group, with 3 groups every day.
3. Wrist stretching: initial weight1-2kg, maximum weight 5. Repeat 10 times as a group, 3 groups per day; Gradually increase the number of repetitions, increase the weight 1 pound when it reaches 30 times, reduce the number of repetitions to 10 times, then gradually increase the number of repetitions, and so on.
4. Wrist flexion: Do not start with heavy weight, repeat 10 times as a group, 3 groups a day; Gradually increase the number of repetitions, increase the weight 1 pound when it reaches 30 times, reduce the number of repetitions to 10 times, then gradually increase the number of repetitions, and so on.