Tennis Elbow Lateral Epicondylitis Homeopathic Treatment

Repetitive arm movements can cause your forearm muscles to get fatigued. A single tendon attaches this muscle to the bony bump on the outside of your elbow lateral epicondyle. As your muscle gets tired, the tendon takes more of the load. This overloading can cause inflammation and pain, known as tendinitis. Over time, this overloading can cause a degenerative condition known as tendinosis. Together tendinitis and tendinosis can then lead to tendon tearing.

Sometimes, a sudden arm or elbow injury causes tennis elbow. Rarely, people develop the condition for no known reason idiopathic tennis elbow.

Tennis elbow is usually the result of overuse. Symptoms tend to come on slowly. Pain may get worse over weeks and months. Signs of tennis elbow include:

Burning or pain on your outer elbow that may travel to your wrist (these sensations may get worse at night).

Pain when twisting or bending your arm (for instance, to turn a doorknob or open a jar).

Stiffness or pain when extending your arm.

Swollen elbow joint that’s tender to touch.

Weakened grip when you try to hold items like a racquet, wrench, pen or someone’s hand.

The diagnosis of elbow pain is generally done clinically, meaning through evaluation of one's medical history and physical examination alone. Sometimes, though, imaging, like an X-ray to rule out a fracture, for example, is needed.

Medical History

Prior to examining your elbow, your doctor will inquire about when the elbow pain began, the type and frequency of sport or occupational activities you engage in, and whether you recently experienced any falls or trauma.Moreover, besides pain, he will ask whether you have other symptoms like numbness or tingling (which suggests nerve involvement), swelling (which suggests inflammation), or a fever (which suggests a possible infection).

Physical Examination

During the physical examination, your doctor will first inspect your elbow, forearm, and upper arm for bruising, swelling, redness, and/or deformity. He will also press on and move the bones, muscles, and tendons of the arm and elbow to evaluate for tenderness and range of motion. In addition to a comprehensive musculoskeletal exam, your doctor will perform a brief neurological exam of the arm and hand to check for sensory disturbances and muscle weakness.

Imaging Tests

Various imaging tests may be needed to confirm or support a diagnosis for your elbow pain. For example, an X-ray is needed to diagnose an elbow fracture or dislocation, while magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be ordered to better examine the bicep tendon, especially if there is suspicion for a tendon rupture.

Electromyography (EMG) checks for compressed nerves by measuring muscle and nerve electrical activity.

Blood Tests like Uric acid,CRP C reactive Protein,ESR etc also helps.

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STRETCHING EXERCISES

▪️Wrist active range of motion, flexion and extension: Bend the wrist of your injured arm forward and back as far as you can. Do 2 sets of 15.

▪️Wrist stretch: Press the back of the hand on your injured side with your other hand to help bend your wrist. Hold for 15 to 30 seconds. Next, stretch the hand back by pressing the fingers in a backward direction. Hold for 15 to 30 seconds. Keep the arm on your injured side straight during this exercise. Do 3 sets.

▪️Forearm pronation and supination: Bend the elbow of your injured arm 90 degrees, keeping your elbow at your side. Turn your palm up and hold for 5 seconds. Then slowly turn your palm down and hold for 5 seconds. Make sure you keep your elbow at your side and bent 90 degrees while you do the exercise. Do 2 sets of 15.

▪️Active elbow flexion and extension: Gently bring the palm of the hand on your injured side up toward your shoulder, bending your elbow as much as you can. Then straighten your elbow as far as you can. Repeat 15 times. Do 2 sets of 15.

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STRENGTHENING EXERCISES

▪️Eccentric wrist flexion: Hold a can or hammer handle in the hand of your injured side with your palm up. Use the hand on the side that is not injured to bend your wrist up. Then let go of your wrist and use just your injured side to lower the weight slowly back to the starting position. Do 3 sets of 15. Gradually increase the weight you are holding.

▪️Eccentric wrist extension: Hold a soup can or hammer handle in the hand of your injured side with your palm facing down. Use the hand on the side that is not injured to bend your wrist up. Then let go of your wrist and use just your injured side to lower the weight slowly back to the starting position. Do 3 sets of 15. Gradually increase the weight you are holding.

▪️Wrist radial deviation strengthening: Put your wrist in the sideways position with your thumb up. Hold a can of soup or a hammer handle and gently bend your wrist up, with the thumb reaching toward the ceiling. Slowly lower to the starting position. Do not move your forearm throughout this exercise. Do 2 sets of 15.

▪️Wrist extension with broom handle: Stand up and hold a broom handle in both hands. With your arms at shoulder level, elbows straight and palms down, roll the broom handle backward in your hand. Do 2 sets of 15.

▪️Forearm pronation and supination strengthening: Hold a soup can or hammer handle in your hand and bend your elbow 90 degrees. Slowly turn your hand so your palm is up and then down. Do 2 sets of 15.

Homeopathy treatment for Tennis Elbow is highly recommended; it can effectively control pain and stiffness in your elbow without using any painful invasive procedures means non surgically treated by Dr Makkar.Homeopathy treats the person as a whole on wholistic concept. It means that homeopathic treatment focuses on the patient as a person, as well as his pathological condition based on symptoms.Symptoms are sign of internal turbulance or loss of equilibrium. The homeopathic medicines are selected after a full individualizing examination and case-analysis, which includes the medical history of the patient, physical and mental constitution, family history, presenting symptoms, underlying pathology, possible causative factors etc.  A homeopathy doctor tries to treat more than just the presenting symptoms. The focus is usually on what caused the disease condition especially. Why this patient is sick in this way while others not in same house or condition. The disease diagnosis is important but in homeopathy, the cause of disease is not just probed to the level of bacteria and viruses. Other factors like mental, emotional and physical stress that could predispose a person to illness are also looked for. No a days, even modern medicine also considers a large number of diseases as psychosomatic. The correct homeopathy remedy tries to correct this disease predisposition. The focus is not on curing the disease but to cure the person who is sick, to restore the health. If a disease pathology is not very advanced, homeopathy remedies do give a hope for cure but even in incurable cases, the quality of life can be greatly improved with homeopathic medicines.

Arnica- One of the best homeopathic medicines for tennis elbow worse during movement with sore bruised feeling.

There is a sore bruised feeling in the elbow and the forearm especially movement ,breathing or cough. Arnica is one of the best  medicines in homeopathy for tennis elbow. The soreness is such that one feels as if he has been beaten all over body and bruised. There is a feeling of sprain or dislocation. This soreness feeling often comes after any sort of overexertion. There is a deathly coldness felt in forearm. It is an excellent medicine for any sort of injury or sprain or exertion.Worse by touch.History of blunt trauma.

Rhus Tox- One of the best homeopathic remedies Rainy season aggravte  tennis elbow with amelioration from warmth and motion

Characteristic symptom of Rhustox is motion releive all complaint & pain in the tennis elbow is better from applying external warmth. This is an excellent remedy for any sort of sprain or strain from overexertion of muscle ligaments & tendons. The pain is worse when the patient when start moving the affected joint. The pain usually gets slightly better after moving for some time as blood take away inflammatoryfactors. Therefore, the patient keeps on moving to get relief exhausted finally.There is hot and painful swelling of the joints on physical examination. The patient cannot tolerate any cold air seasonal or air conditioning or cold application. There are tearing pains in the tendons and ligaments. The forearm seems to lose power.

Bryonia- One of the best homeopathy medicines Stitching pain of tennis elbow motion aggravate all problems. 

It is highly effective in stitching pains.When the pain becomes worse from any sort of movement even blink of eye cause pain. Bryonia is one of the best medicines in homeopathy for tennis elbow & Synovialjoints. The patient feels better when rest therefore he just does not want to move motionless totally. The pains are stitching and tearing felt in muscle of elbow in nature. The joints swell and are red and hot. The joint is painful on ant type of pressure & motion.

Kali Bi- One of the best homeopathic medicines in tennis elbow with extension to hand.

When the pain extends to the hand, Kali Bi is one of the best homeopathic medicines for tennis elbow. There is pain in small spots. The pains are often fly rapidly from one place to another wandering pain.One moment, there is pain in one particular spot and sometime later, the pain moves to another spot. There is stiffness and cracking in the joints.Pain appear and disappear suddenly.

Chamomilla- One of the best homeopathic medicines for tennis elbow with pain aggravated on carrying a weight with anger due to over-sensitivity.

 Chamomilla is one of the best homeopathic medicines for tennis elbow with numbness. When the pain gets worse on carrying any weight.Pains are intolerable and appear to be out of all proportion. Suited to bad-tempered.Neuralgic pain. The pains are severe and unbearable scream due to pain. The pains are worse at night. Mental irritability is characteristic of this medicine during pain angry quarrels with every one.