What is a Tennis Elbow Injury?
Just like you don’t have to be an athlete to get athlete’s foot, you don’t have to be a tennis player to get a tennis elbow injury, or golfer’s elbow. It just happens to be a problem that a lot of tennis players have. You get it from using the forearm and arm muscles too much, which results in pain in the elbow.
A tennis elbow injury is usually the result of an injury to the muscle and tendon area surround the outside of the elbow. The area where the tendons and muscles of the forearm and the bone meet is where you’re going to be experiencing the pain of.
It’s usually a problem for people in their right arm if they’re right-handed, but it does sometimes happen in the non-dominant arm as well.
What are tennis elbow symptoms?
You’ll feel pain around the outside of the elbow. Sometimes it comes on all of a sudden, but usually it slowly gets worse. It hurts to squeeze objects and to shake hands with somebody. The pain is really bad when trying to lift something, opening a jam jar, or sometimes just holding a glass.
Who gets tenis elbow?
Plenty of people experience tennis elbow, but it’s usually men more than women, and you’ll usually first get it between 30 and 50 years old, but pretty much anyone can get it. If you do any kind of repetitive movement with your arms, elbow, or wrist, there’s a much higher chance of getting it. A friend of mine used to work for a printer loading huge sheets of paper on and off these printing presses and that’s how he got it. Just like people who type all day are at risk for carpal tunnel and get bad hand pain, people who clean houses for a living are likely to get it from all the scrubbing and vacuuming.
When I got it I though I had a pinched nerve or something, and it would go away. Months later it was too hard to ignore and I went to see the doctor who confirmed it was an tennis elbow injury.
