Tennis elbow

Clear, practical guidance on lateral elbow pain: what it is, why it lingers, and how to tell it apart from look-alikes. We cover typical symptoms, simple self-tests, red flags, and the usual time course, then point you towards sensible first steps and evidence-based next moves.

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Tennis elbow

Tennis Elbow Today: What Really Works (and What Doesn’t)

Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylalgia/epicondylitis) is an overuse problem of the tendons on the outside of the elbow, most often the extensor carpi radialis brevis. Despite the “-itis” suffix, it behaves more like a degenerative tendinopathy than a pure inflammatory flare.

Oliver Hutcheon