Tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow are common overuse injuries that affect the tendons around the elbow joint. In medical terms, tennis elbow is called lateral epicondylitis (or lateral epicondylalgia), which causes pain on the outside of the elbow near the lateral epicondyle. Golfer’s elbow affects the inside of the elbow and involves irritation of the forearm tendons that attach to the elbow bones.
These conditions develop when the elbow muscles and tendons are repeatedly strained during sports or daily activities. Many people with tennis elbow do not actually play tennis. It can affect anyone who performs repetitive arm and wrist movements, leading to pain in the elbow and forearm, reduced grip strength, and tenderness in the elbow.
Repetitive wrist and arm strain
Overuse from tennis or golf
Poor sports or lifting technique
Sudden increase in training
Weak elbow muscles
Repetitive hand and wrist work
Minor elbow impact
Lack of proper stretching
Incorrect sports equipment use
Ignoring early elbow pain
Frequent racket sports activity
Age 30–50 with active arm use
Repetitive manual work
Previous elbow injury
Weak grip strength
Poor arm posture
Lack of injury prevention
Skipping warm-ups
Tendon weakness history
Continuing activity despite pain
Pain inside or outside elbow
Elbow and forearm pain
Elbow tenderness
Weak grip strength
Pain toward wrist or fingers
Elbow ache when lifting
Burning outer elbow pain
Pain with hand movement
Soreness after activity
Severe elbow discomfort
Treatments range from conservative treatment to surgery. Our goal is to provide you with the best treatment plan to reduce pain, but these treatments do not change the underlying source of pain. Medical treatments are often used in combination such as: medications, physical therapy programs, and injection therapy.
Treats radiating pain; deposit the medication, typically steroids in the epidural space of the spine.
Targets a specific spinal nerve and deposit medication around the nerve at the point where it exits the intervertebral foramen (bony opening between adjacent vertebrae).
Treat pain stemming from a specific facet joint.
Deposit medication around the medial branches of spinal nerves. The medial branch is a nerve that sends pain signals to the brain from an arthritic facet joint. An injection directed around the medial branch can relieve neck and lower back pain.
Treats pain by lesioning medial branch nerves of the facet joints.
