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Arm Pain Chiropractor Care

Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Altamonte Springs tennis elbow, the layman’s term for Lateral Epicondylitis, is the most prevalent illness of the upper body.

But tennis elbow is not unique to tennis players only. Tennis elbow can come about when too much strain is placed in the muscles of the forearm (wrist extensor group). This ailment is common among tennis players, carpenters, typists, manual laborers and a lot more professions. So basically any activity that involves repetitive wrist extension will cause tennis elbow, says Dr Kenneth Ross DC. The pain in tennis elbow is most frequently felt in the tendo periosteal junction where the common extensor tendon (outer part of the elbow) is sourced from. In fact, in 10 cases of tennis elbow, 9 of them would have this. Some patients with tennis elbow will feel pain radiating to the back of the forearm and wrist area.

FL tennis elbow can be a challenge because it needs lengthy treatment course due to the lack of a tendon sheath. The common extensor origin resembles a muscle more than a tendon, but its blood supply is not adequate and thus, it cannot get nutrition from the fluid that is found within a tendon sheath.

To identify the level of severity of your tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis), your Chiropractor at Chiropractic Pain Medicine and Weight Loss Center will take your history and examine you completely. Further, he will include neurological and orthopaedic tests. Then they will develop a specific plan of management tailored to your case.

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