Tennis and golfer's elbows are medical conditions caused by inflammation in the elbow's outer and inner parts, respectively. These painful conditions can affect everyone, not just tennis players and golfers, despite the name. Tennis and golfer elbows are most likely to occur in men between 30 and 50 years old and are often a result of repetitive motions like typing, painting, or hand gripping during sports.
Tennis and a golfer's elbow can be frustrating conditions that prevent you from exercising and doing household chores. LaSara Medical Group offers low intensity extracorporeal shockwave therapy to ease tennis and golfer's elbow symptoms and allow you to resume your normal activities.
What is Tennis and Golfer's Elbow Treatment?
Tennis and golfer's elbow occur in up to 10% of the population. Although the conditions are fairly common, conservative treatments like pain killers, steroid injections, and rest often require repetition and don't provide lasting results. Low-intensity extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT), on the other hand, can effectively treat pain in a maximum of 6 treatments.
ESWT is an innovative non-invasive treatment that utilizes low intensity extracorporeal shockwaves to generate single bursts of energy. This energy promotes regeneration and reparative processes in tendons and soft tissues, alleviating symptoms associated with tennis and golfer's elbow.
Benefits of Tennis and Golfer's Elbow Treatment
Shockwave therapy has long been used in orthopedics, physiotherapy, and sports medicine to alleviate pain and restore mobility. Other benefits of shockwave therapy for tennis and golfer's elbow include:
- Accelerated tissue repair
- Pain relief
- Accelerated cell growth
- Improved mobility
- Reduces inflammation
- Stimulates collagen production
- Increases blood flow to tendons and bone
- Breaks up existing calcification
- Releases trigger points