10 ways to avoid tennis elbow

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Tennis elbow is painful sensation on the outer side of elbow commonly arising due to repetitive and frequent use of arm. It is due to inflammation or injury of muscles or tendons around elbow area.

This is characterized by painful feeling and difficulty in bending arm. The term “tennis elbow” is named so since tennis players mostly develop its symptoms. However, other people whose work involve twisting and folding of wrist again and again; can also develop this which leads to weak grip.

Here are some tips to avoid tennis elbow:

Practice with some skilled professional tennis coach that can guide you with right techniques of strokes and movement of arm so stress may be avoided over arm. Change the techniques that cause tennis elbow. While stroking set a light grip on racket instead of holding it tightly.

Exercise your muscles to make them strong and flexible to bear stress. This includes stretching your muscles by moving them up and down. Exercises like push-ups, rotating arm and bending and stretching arm will make your muscles strong.

Have some alterations to your diet. Like you can increase omega 3 part of diet via fish. In reducing inflammation Omega 3 plays a very important role. Milk has calcium in it that makes bones strong.

Check your tennis kit. Make sure whether they are the cause for tennis elbow? If your rackets are heavy and causing strain on your arm replace them with light weight and flexible rackets that have long stem and try to use light weight tennis ball in live tennis

Wear some wrist and elbow support wrap that will cause a lesser amount of stress to your muscle in live tennis. Be careful that elbow wrap should not be too tight to stop your blood circulation. It should just wrap the elbow to give support and minimize pressure to your arm.

If you are affected with tennis elbow then for inflammation you can use ice packs to cut down swelling. Apply ice after short intervals. This will not help in healing injured muscles and tissues, but diminish inflammation. After inflammation is gone, let your arm heal itself.

Massage is another technique by which you can give relieve to your arm. Softly rubbing on infected area will provide you comfort. An additional form of massage is to rub specific areas around the injury and not the actual point to relieve pain. This, however, may require some professional.

Use anti-inflammatory drug or creams as recommended by doctors.

If you are suffering from tennis elbow try to take complete rest and avoid using affected arm in any activity that causes stress. Overusing arm can lead to serious disorder that may be cured only by surgery, which is the last stage for treatment.

Consult to some physical therapist who will recommend exercises and therapies to make your muscle strong and flexible or to cure your muscle if tennis elbow has already occurred. He can suggest regular exercises that will help avoiding tennis elbow to occur again.