Tennis Elbow is the painful condition on the outer side of elbow. In medical term, it is called "lateral epicondylitis" where elbow tendon is overloaded with repetitive movement of arms and wrist.
Tennis elbow is inflammation of soft tissue of the forearm. The inflamed tendon common referred as Tendonitis experienced the pain on extension or straightening.
Tennis elbow is not only for the tennis players but can also happen to any person who overuses their wrist and arm such as painter, carpenter, plumber.....
Golf Elbow is similar situation that elbow has been used repetitively and weakened the muscle. In medical term, it is called "medial epicondylitis". The pain happens on flexing the arm rather than extending the arm.
Rainbow Medicine acupuncturist at Balgowlah clinic can assist you relief the pain in elbow muscle and tendon and you can go back to usually activities very quickly.
The Lane Cove rooms are at 2 Austin Street, directly opposite the Lane Cove Library and a few metres from Longueville Road. If you are coming from the village it is a walk of two or three minutes, and the parking behind the library is the easiest option in the middle of the day.
Lane Cove sends a particular mix of problems through the door. There are the desk-and-commute necks and low backs from St Leonards and the city, the shoulders and elbows of a suburb that plays a lot of tennis, and the knees and Achilles tendons that come with living on a hillside — the stairs down to Tambourine Bay and the streets off Burns Bay Road are their own kind of training load. Lane Cove also has a lot of people in their thirties and forties carrying small children, which is its own demand on a back.
A first appointment is mostly questions and movement testing: where the pain is, what makes it worse, what it stops you doing, and how it has behaved over weeks rather than days. From there you should leave knowing what is proposed, roughly how long it is expected to take, and what would mean changing the plan.
Worth bringing: any imaging or specialist letters you already have, a list of medications, and the shoes you actually walk or train in. If the pain is new and severe, follows a significant fall, or comes with numbness, weakness, fever or any change in bladder or bowel control, see a doctor first — that is a medical assessment, not a treatment question.
The nearest alternative if Lane Cove does not suit you is the Freshwater side, about 14 kilometres away across the Spit.
