Tennis elbow is named after tennis players are prone to this disease, and its medical name is lateral epicondylitis of humerus. Housewife, bricklayer, carpenter, etc. People who do elbow exercises repeatedly for a long time are also prone to this disease. Due to long-term strain, some tendons and soft tissues attached to the elbow joint may be partially torn or injured, or periosteal trauma may be caused by friction, leading to periostitis. Mainly manifested in the pain outside the elbow joint, and radiated to the outside of the forearm, the grip strength is weak, and the local pain is aggravated when screwing screws or squeezing towels. The affected area has a certain swelling, and you can feel the hyperosteogeny and swelling, and the tenderness is obvious. In order to diagnose this disease, we can do a wrist flexion test of rotating arm. The method is to straighten the elbow joint, bend the wrist, and then rotate the forearm backwards and outwards as far as possible. At this time, if the elbow pain is aggravated, it means that you have tennis elbow.
After tennis elbow happens, you should pay attention to rest and stop some movements with elbow and wrist strength. All kinds of diathermy physiotherapy, or hot compress with hot water bottle and hot towel, combined with acupuncture and massage, have certain curative effect. If the injection site is accurate, it is effective to inject triamcinolone acetonide at the tender site. It can be injected 1 time every week, and 2 ~ 3 times is 1 course of treatment. Except for a few patients whose local inflammatory reaction may aggravate the pain within 1 ~ 2 days after injection, local injection generally does not cause systemic complications. If all kinds of treatments are still ineffective and have seriously affected work and life, surgery can be done.