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Online Help for Tennis Elbow

Diagnosis and Causes

By Jeff Cooper, About.com

If you do a general Web search for the phrase "tennis elbow," you'll get thousands of hits. I haven't sifted through thousands of sites for you, but I have looked at enough to be able offer you this brief guide to some of the better information.

The first thing you probably want to know is whether you actually have tennis elbow or some other condition. The best sites addressing this question are the following:

"Coping with Tennis Elbow" offers a concise list of symptoms and makes a few points often omitted elsewhere, but it gives exactly the wrong advice about racquet weight, and it lacks a good diagram.

The clearest diagram showing the locus of tennis elbow pain is at "What Is Tennis Elbow?" This article offers three diagrams in a chart comparing tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, and bursitis, but the better diagram of tennis elbow itself is the black-and-white below the chart.

Once you decide you probably have tennis elbow, you'll want to know what caused it. Before you decide to give up tennis or completely rebuild all of your strokes, you should take a look at a couple of sites that describe the many non-tennis causes of this somewhat misnamed condition:

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety emphasizes, as one might expect, the workplace causes of tennis elbow. It also makes some valuable points on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. It's definitely worth a visit.

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