There are a variety of treatments that are employed for tennis elbow.
The two most common successful treatments are surgery and physical therapy.
And the correct physical therapy procedures provide the greater success for the vast majority of cases.
Everyone who wants to treat his or her affliction with exercise is looking for the best.
The best ones are those tried and true standards that are most commonly prescribed by doctors and physical therapists.
They are by far the most common and effective way to cure most incidents of the ailment, especially if they are performed in conjunction with a few other self-administered treatments.
The great thing about those exercises is they work in almost all cases.
Beyond that success rate, we get the convenience factor.
They not only can be done in your own home, you can actually do them while watching TV.
Here is A Very Important Warning: There are three or four exercises going around the Internet that are good for tennis elbow if done in conjunction with others.
But if they are done by themselves, they can set a person back into more injury and pain.
Unfortunately, those three are being presented around the Internet as the exercises to do for the ailment by themselves alone.
That is definitely counter-productive.
The reason these few can make the affliction worse when done by themselves is they are meant only for strength-building.
If you are truly suffering from tennis elbow, you need to do stretching exercises first.
Otherwise you could irritate your tendons even more by strengthening the muscles without stretching the tendons.
Here are the exercises to NOT Do by Themselves.
In preparation, gather a few common items that you probably have in your home that you will need in order to do these exercises.
These items include a liter size bottle of soft drink (or an approximately two pound size can of food), a hammer, and some rubber bands.
Sounds like a science experiment, doesn't it? In most of these procedures, you will be supporting your forearm on a table, on your knee, or on the arm of a chair or couch.
Your wrist will be hanging over the edge of the table or other horizontal surface.
In the first exercise with your palm facing down, hold the bottle or can.
Now lower your hand toward the floor so that it is approximately 90° with your forearm.
Then slowly raise your hand so that your wrist and forearm are straight.
Do several repetitions of this movement.
But remember: DON'T do pain.
In the second procedure, you will be holding the hammer.
Grip the hammer with the head of the hammer with the head of the hammer next to your thumb.
(Later, to add more resistance, hold the handle of the hammer so the head is further from your hand.
) Start with your thumb high and the hammer handle vertical (perpendicular to the floor).
Your first motion will be to rotate your arm so that your palm is facing toward the floor and the hammerhead is closest to your body.
Then rotate your arm back to its starting position.
Your next motion is to rotate your arm so that your palm is facing upward and the hammerhead is further from your body.
Finally, return to the starting position.
Now repeat this several times without pain.
In this last procedure, you will be using the rubber bands.
With your arm as straight as it will go without feeling pain, bring your thumb and all your fingers together.
Place one or more rubber bands around your thumb and fingers; the number of rubber bands will determine the resistance level.
Now simply open your hand so that your fingers are spreading the rubber bands apart.
Hold this position for a few seconds then relax your fingers.
Repeat this exercise a few times.
Again, avoid pain.
Be Sure You Understand the Danger.
Remember, it most likely was the repetitive motion of the arm with at least a moderate force that caused the injury in the first place.
Doing more repetitive motions with the arm, but without the stretching exercises, is just more of the same that caused the tennis elbow injury in the first place.
The two most common successful treatments are surgery and physical therapy.
And the correct physical therapy procedures provide the greater success for the vast majority of cases.
Everyone who wants to treat his or her affliction with exercise is looking for the best.
The best ones are those tried and true standards that are most commonly prescribed by doctors and physical therapists.
They are by far the most common and effective way to cure most incidents of the ailment, especially if they are performed in conjunction with a few other self-administered treatments.
The great thing about those exercises is they work in almost all cases.
Beyond that success rate, we get the convenience factor.
They not only can be done in your own home, you can actually do them while watching TV.
Here is A Very Important Warning: There are three or four exercises going around the Internet that are good for tennis elbow if done in conjunction with others.
But if they are done by themselves, they can set a person back into more injury and pain.
Unfortunately, those three are being presented around the Internet as the exercises to do for the ailment by themselves alone.
That is definitely counter-productive.
The reason these few can make the affliction worse when done by themselves is they are meant only for strength-building.
If you are truly suffering from tennis elbow, you need to do stretching exercises first.
Otherwise you could irritate your tendons even more by strengthening the muscles without stretching the tendons.
Here are the exercises to NOT Do by Themselves.
In preparation, gather a few common items that you probably have in your home that you will need in order to do these exercises.
These items include a liter size bottle of soft drink (or an approximately two pound size can of food), a hammer, and some rubber bands.
Sounds like a science experiment, doesn't it? In most of these procedures, you will be supporting your forearm on a table, on your knee, or on the arm of a chair or couch.
Your wrist will be hanging over the edge of the table or other horizontal surface.
In the first exercise with your palm facing down, hold the bottle or can.
Now lower your hand toward the floor so that it is approximately 90° with your forearm.
Then slowly raise your hand so that your wrist and forearm are straight.
Do several repetitions of this movement.
But remember: DON'T do pain.
In the second procedure, you will be holding the hammer.
Grip the hammer with the head of the hammer with the head of the hammer next to your thumb.
(Later, to add more resistance, hold the handle of the hammer so the head is further from your hand.
) Start with your thumb high and the hammer handle vertical (perpendicular to the floor).
Your first motion will be to rotate your arm so that your palm is facing toward the floor and the hammerhead is closest to your body.
Then rotate your arm back to its starting position.
Your next motion is to rotate your arm so that your palm is facing upward and the hammerhead is further from your body.
Finally, return to the starting position.
Now repeat this several times without pain.
In this last procedure, you will be using the rubber bands.
With your arm as straight as it will go without feeling pain, bring your thumb and all your fingers together.
Place one or more rubber bands around your thumb and fingers; the number of rubber bands will determine the resistance level.
Now simply open your hand so that your fingers are spreading the rubber bands apart.
Hold this position for a few seconds then relax your fingers.
Repeat this exercise a few times.
Again, avoid pain.
Be Sure You Understand the Danger.
Remember, it most likely was the repetitive motion of the arm with at least a moderate force that caused the injury in the first place.
Doing more repetitive motions with the arm, but without the stretching exercises, is just more of the same that caused the tennis elbow injury in the first place.