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Tennis Elbow: Causes, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

Get advice on the causes, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of tennis elbow. Causes discussed include problems with tennis strokes and racquet selection. Treatments include exercises, stretches, medications, elbow braces, elbow straps, steroids, and surgery.
Online Help for Tennis Elbow
A review of the best Web sites offering advice on the causes, diagnosis, treatments, and prevention of tennis elbow.
Coping with Tennis Elbow
Excellent overview with tennis-specific causes and detailed exercise treatments.
Frustrating tennis elbow can be aided
Good exercise suggestions and alaysis of tennis-specific causes.
OSH (Canadian OSHA)
Excellent discussion of non-tennis causes and remedies.
Southern California Orthopedic Institute
A differing opionion, discounting the usefulness of physical therapy.
SportsLine: Tennis Elbow Treatment and Prevention
Discusses several approaches not found elsewhere and offers several useful pointers on racquet selection.
Tennis Elbow - Strengthening Exercises
Offers a few exercises (some illustrated) with and without weights.
What is Tennis Elbow?
Good chart with diagrams that distinguishes between tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, and bursitis. Worthwhile discussion of treatment and prevention.

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