Best Long Term Cure For Tennis Elbow: Do Nothing

Forget the cortisone. Forget the sonar beam therapies. Forget massage.  Want to know the best way to cure tennis elbow? Do nothing. That's the conclusion of an Australian study that looked at 198 sufferers of tennis elbow and divided them into three groups. As reported by CBC News, one group received physiotherapy, the second got steroid injections, and the third had to "wait-and-see." CBC reports that after six weeks, 78 percent of the group that got the corticosteroid injections reported significant improvement, compared with physiotherapy, with a 65 per cent success rate, and just 27 per cent in the wait-and-see group. But wait. The injected group quickly lost ground, with 47 of 65 "successes" regressing and reporting much poorer outcomes in the long term, and in the period after the initial six-weeks, the physiotherapy group healed better than the injection group. After a year, the researchers found, there was no difference between physio and wait-and-see.

Comments

[PP]

I would argue that the best cure would be therapy rather than nothing. 65% vs. 27% felt better after 6 weeks and had no regression like the shot group. I would rather feel better after 6 weeks than not, knowing that I would continue to heal as time went on. And no, I'm not a physical therapist, but I have had a wicked case of tennis elbow that was still going strong after 9 months. (I got rid of it completely by progressive eccentric resistance within 6-8 weeks.)

[Hariram]

Hi,
Could you please let me know what is progressive eccentric resistance and how I can do it? I starting to get tennis elbow and I would really want to get rid of it soon.

Appreciate your help.

[sam]

please let me know what is progressive eccentric resistance
thanks