Abstract
Journal of Physical Fitness, Medicine & Treatment in Sports is an interdisciplinary open access peer reviewed journal that publishes original research, reviews, short communication, case reports, news, commentaries etc., in the field of sports medicine, treatment and exercise medication.
Highlights
Lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) seems to be the most appropriate term to use in clinical practice because all the other terms such as lateral epicondylitis, lateral epicondylalgia, lateral epicondylosis and/or tennis elbow refer to inappropriate aetiological, anatomical and pathophysiological terms [1]
The patient followed a supervised exercise programme consisting of slow progressive concentric-eccentric training of the wrist extensors, isometric training of the wrist extensors and static stretching exercises of the extensors muscles of the wrist
At the end of the treatment, there was a decline in pain on visual analogue scale (VAS) of 6 units, a rise in function on VAS of 5 units and a rise in pain-free grip strength of 38 units
Summary
Lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) seems to be the most appropriate term to use in clinical practice because all the other terms such as lateral epicondylitis, lateral epicondylalgia, lateral epicondylosis and/or tennis elbow refer to inappropriate aetiological, anatomical and pathophysiological terms [1]. The condition is usually defined as a syndrome of pain in the area of the lateral epicondyle [2] that may be degenerative or failed healing tendon response rather than inflammatory [3]. The dominant arm is commonly affected, the peak prevalence of LET is between 30 and 60 years of age [2,5] and the disorder appears to be of longer duration and severity in women [3,6]. A therapist should be able to reproduce this pain in at least one of three ways: a) Digital palpation on the facet of the lateral epicondyle, b) Resisted wrist extension and/or resisted middle-finger extension with the elbow in extension, c) By getting the patient to grip an object [2,3,5]
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