What to do when you have tennis elbow?

Tennis elbow, the medical name for epicondylitis of the humerus, is named after the tendency of tennis players to suffer from this condition. Housewives, bricklayers, carpenters, repairmen and other people who repeatedly use their elbows for labor are also susceptible to this disease. The main symptoms are discomfort, elbow pain, tenderness, and inability to hold weight. Tennis elbow is mostly caused by the forearm extensor muscle group due to long-term repeated strong contraction, pulling, so that the tendon attachment place occurs in different degrees of acute and chronic cumulative injury, resulting in tearing, bleeding, mechanization, adhesion, and caused by the disease. When you feel itchy and painful on the outside of the elbow joint when lifting a hot water bottle, twisting a towel or sweeping the floor, even radiating to the upper arm and forearm, and the symptom is alleviated when you are resting, please pay attention to whether you are suffering from tennis elbow, and you should go to the hospital immediately for medical treatment. Once suffering from this disease, the acute phase should be done to limit the activities of the wrist joint, especially to limit the use of force to make a fist and extend the wrist movement is the basic principle of treatment and prevention of recurrence. Can use the neck and wrist strap suspension braking rest 1 ~ 2 weeks, during the treatment should avoid wringing clothes or big screw cap, pay attention to the combination of prevention and treatment. For athletes who cannot train intermittently, they should reduce the amount of exercise appropriately and avoid hitting the ball with the backhand, as well as tie an elastic umbrella on the extensor muscle below the radial head to reduce the tension stress at the beginning of the tendon. In addition to braking, patients can also use warm water immersion, hot water bag hot compress therapy. Massage Method 1: Massage for five minutes twice a day. The thumb and forefinger massage longitudinally down the muscle belly at the painful area, then laterally on the nearby tendon. Method 2: Use Qiaoli relaxation stick to beat massage: take a sitting or standing position, hold the relaxation stick in the left (right) hand and beat the dorsal (radial) side of the right (left) hand forearm. The strokes tend to induce straightening and throbbing of the index and middle fingers, and please be careful about how hard you hit them (they can be very sore). The incidence of tennis elbow is very high, so prevention is important. Before working, prepare for functional exercises by actively making a fist, bending the elbow, rotating the elbow, and straightening the fist every day. Exercise should pay attention to the intensity of the exercise should be reasonable, do not make the arm excessive fatigue. Usually computer typing, housework before, to fully do a good job of warm-up exercises, especially the arm and wrist internal rotation, external rotation, dorsal extension exercises. Wear an elbow protector, just like wearing a knee brace; grip the racket to relax; gradually increase the strength exercises. Equipment issues, the longer the racket the longer the lever, the smaller the handle the greater the required gripping grip, the greater the string tension the greater the strength required. Don’t ignore. Pay attention to warming up before exercising. Don’t flush cold water too often during labor. Avoid trauma.