Who Are The Real Experts In Treating Tennis Elbow?

Who are the true experts and authorities when it comes to Golfer's and Tennis Elbow treatment? Are they Doctors? Surgeons? Physical Therapists? (Or could they be the practitioners who work on muscles and tendons by hand?)

Who Are The Real Experts In Treating Tennis Elbow? was originally published on: https://tenniselbowclassroom.com (Read the full article there.)

Tennis Elbow Supplements: Helpful For Your Healing Or Total Waste Of Money?

Are there any supplements, including vitamins or herbal remedies for Tennis Elbow or Golfer's Elbow that will help relieve your pain and support your healing process or are they a complete waste of time and money?

It's a question I'm often asked by my members in the forum – and in my practice treating Tennis Elbow sufferers directly.

Many people want to avoid toxic anti-inflammatory pills – for very good reasons, and they're looking for natural alternatives for both pain relief AND to support their healing process.

The problem is that desperate Tennis and Golfer's Elbow sufferers tend to get a little carried away seeking remedy…

And there's no shortage of claims on the Internet (some bordering on the miraculous) about all kinds of vitamins, supplements or herbal concoctions – including:

• Basic Vitamins: A, B, C and D
• “Anti-Inflammatory” Herbs: Ginger, Turmeric, Bromelain
• MSM, Chondrotin and Glucosamine
• Fish Oil / Veg-based Omega-3 Oils
• And Collagen Supplements

Sadly, the short answer is that most of these things, beyond basic vitamins, are pointless and a waste of money, for various reasons we explore in this episode...

(At least when it comes to healing tendon injuries like Tennis Elbow and Golfer's Elbow. Not necessarily for other problems.)

REFERENCE – Quoted in the video:

“Vitamin D plays a significant role in the tendon-to-bone healing process by increasing the bone mineral density and strengthening the skeletal muscles.”

Vitamin D And The Immunomodulation Of Rotator Cuff Injury

This study has to do with the Rotator Cuff tendons of the shoulder, and how they need to heal and form strong attachments to the bone after surgery…

But the same principle may apply to Tennis or Golfer's Elbow, because we're dealing with a similar 'tendon attachment' at our elbows.

See my full article for the other medical paper references, the full video and other details:

Tennis Elbow Supplements And Vitamins: Help You Heal Or Waste Of Money?

And while you're there, get my free video course:

'Tennis Elbow 101' – (6 videos on Tennis AND Golfer's Elbow)

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Tennis Elbow Supplements And Vitamins: Useful Remedy Or Waste Of Money?

Herbs, nutrients, collagen, omegas – What about Glucosamine / MSM? Here are the only two Vitamins you'll likely need to heal your Golfer's or Tennis Elbow and why the rest are useless junk and a waste of your money!

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Why Self Massage Is Key When Treating Your Own Tennis Or Golfer's Elbow Injury

Discover why advanced Massage Therapy techniques are the best way to treat your own Tennis Elbow or Golfer's Elbow injury.

Learn about the most powerful self-massage methods to use from a professional Neuromuscular Therapist, who treats these injuries every day.

Here's a quote from the episode:

I truly believe Advanced Massage Therapy Techniques are the “Missing Link” when it comes to treating the true, underlying causes of Tennis Elbow…

And reversing that stubborn, vicious injury cycle that few things can touch. (Literally, few things TOUCH at ALL, except, possibly in the most superficial way.)

Because nothing else physically “get's into” the muscle and tendon “issues in the tissues,” at the root of the injury better...

Nothing else releases the tension and restrictions in your muscles and stimulates tendon healing like the right Massage Therapy methods can...

(Again, in my opinion, but based on a lot of experience.)

For the full, detailed article please visit:

The Best Tennis Elbow Self Massage Therapy Techniques

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The Best Tennis Elbow Self Massage Techniques For Treating Yourself At Home

Learn why Advanced Massage Therapy Techniques are the best way to treat your own Tennis Elbow or Golfer's Elbow, and discover the most powerful self-massage methods to use – Straight from an experienced, professional Neuromuscular Massage Therapist, who treats these injuries every day.

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Tennis Elbow And Trigger Points: Source Or Symptom?

What are Trigger Points? What do they have to do with Tennis Elbow? (If anything...) And should you use Trigger Point Massage Techniques on them if you have Tennis or Golfer's Elbow?

 

Trigger points are said to be highly irritable spots in bands of tight muscle tissue, which are painful when pressed on, and which often refer pain and other sensations in “well-mapped out” predictable patterns that are specific to each muscle and trigger point.

According to this article in MassageMag:

How To Fix Elbow Pain With Myofascial Trigger Point Therapy

“Whether caused by tendonitis or referred pain, golfer’s or tennis elbow stems from trigger points in one or more of the muscles noted...”

I have to begin by saying, I don't think it's quite accurate to say that Tennis or Golfer's Elbow is “caused by Tendonitis or referred pain...”

But rather that Golfer's or Tennis Elbow can either be a “real” tendon dysfunction like Tendonitis...

(Although medical research over the past 30 years tells us that it's much more likely to be Tendinosis than Tendonitis.)

OR it can be Tennis Elbow-like pain that is actually a referred pain pattern caused by Trigger Points elsewhere.

I don't deny the existence of Trigger Points. (I would be surprised to find many Bodyworkers who do!)

But I do regard them as secondary symptoms, as in symptoms that cause other symptoms.

I don't regard them as the primary cause of the dysfunction – Not as the root of the problem.

The article goes on to say that:

“These trigger points must be deactivated to restore the muscles to a pain-free and fully functional condition.”

I know I may be splitting hairs, but the way I see it is the other way around:

Once you release the adhesions in a muscle (and do whatever else may be necessary) and restore it to full function…

THEN the Trigger Points will be deactivated.

In the process of working on a muscle I may occasionally spend some time on a trigger point or two…

(It's often highly instructive to the patient/client to feel their pain pattern magnified – often dramatically – by the pressure on the Trigger Point)...

But I don't “chase them down,” so to speak, as a primary treatment goal.

Lastly is the claim, (still in reference Tennis Elbow) that:

“Fortunately, the muscles are easy to treat...”

Well, I've been specializing in treating Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow for something like 15 years now, and as good as I've become at it, it's still not something I can honestly say is “easy” to treat.

It's not impossible – (Although some people do have very difficult cases) – But if it were that easy it wouldn't be something that people spend over 10 Billion Dollars a year trying to treat.

Here's more on the subject of self massage in my latest full-length post at Tennis Elbow Classroom:

The Best Tennis Elbow Self Massage Techniques

For the origin of the Trigger Point perpective, see:

Myofascial Pain and Dysfunction: The Trigger Point Manual, Vol. 1 - Upper Half of Body