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The Treatment for Tendinitis of the Elbow Include
March 14th, 2010 | 
Author: Tendinitis of the elbow is known as tennis elbow if the pain is located on the outer side or golfer’s elbow if the inner side.
Occurs frequently in sports activities that require repetitive motions of the forearm (racquet sports, golf, baseball), but also can be an occupational disease.
The pain may be constant or occur only with / or after performing repetitive movements of the forearm.
Localized pain on the outside of the elbow that is exacerbated by resisted supination or resisted extension of the wrist or fingers is indicative of tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis is the medical term).
The pain is located on the inside of the elbow and is exacerbated by resisted forearm pronation or resisted flexion of the wrist is indicative gofista elbow (medial epicondylitis). Read the rest of this entry »