Tendinitis Cause of Elbow Pain and Weakness for Tennis and Golfers Elbow Treatment

Many reasons can cause your elbow to hurt, one of the most common being tendinitis. Tendinitis in your elbow is an inflammation or injury to your tendons that attach muscle to bone.

Well known forms of elbow tendinitis are tennis elbow, golfers elbow or little league elbow. However, other overuses of your elbow can result in a similar type tendinitis.

Tennis elbow is usually caused by a poor backhand technique or using a too small racquet’s grip. Signs of tennis elbow include:

  • wrist weakness
  • outside elbow pain
  • wrist extension pain
  • finger pain against resistance
  • tenderness around the bone on the outside of your elbow.

Treatment for tennis elbow involves:

  • ice
  • rest
  • elbow brace
  • gentle stretching
  • strengthening exercises

To prevent future elbow pain caused by tendinitis you need to:

  • proper strength training
  • warm-up adequately in advance
  • gradual return to full level activity
  • make technical corrections to your stroke

Golfer’s elbow, or little league elbow, is experiencing pain on the inside of your elbow. Symptoms are:

  • wrist weakness
  • inside elbow pain
  • inside elbow pain with use of a strong grip

Treatment and prevention for this type of elbow tendinitis is the same as it is for tennis elbow.

Other causes for your elbow pain may be:

Treatment for these will depend on which is causing your pain in the elbow.

Filed under: Tendinitis

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