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Tennis elbow is often an overuse injury. It occurs when the muscles and tendons in your forearm are strained due to a repetitive or strenuous activity. Tennis elbow can also sometimes occur after banging or knocking your elbow.

Sit in a chair holding a 2-pound dumbbell in your hand with your palm facing up and elbow resting comfortably on your knee. Keeping your palm facing up, flex your wrist by curling it towards your body. Return to starting position and repeat 10 times on each side.

Most cases of tennis elbow respond to rest, ice, recovery exercises, pain relief, and counter force braces. This injury does take from 6 months to 12 months to heal. Patience helps. Procedure is considered as a last resort when all other non conventional treatments have failed.

Experts recommend doing it for 20 to 30 minutes every 3 to 4 hours for 2 to 3 days or until the pain is gone. Using an elbow strap to protect the injured tendon from further strain. Taking NSAIDs help with pain and swelling.

A counter-force tennis elbow strap can be thought of as your fingers on the neck of the guitar (your forearm) and the extensor muscles, especially the extensor carpi radialis brevis, would be the guitar string, thus reducing tension of the muscles as they attach to the lateral epicondyle.

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