"Tennis Elbow."

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13367, 17 August 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

"Tennis Elbow."

Nearly every forim of sport, wo are wild by a writer in the Hospital, is liable to give rise to some special surgical lesion, generally involving some particular region, and taking the form cither of a fracture of a bone or a 'tearing of some muscles or liniment. Of the *so called tennis elbow he goes on .to cay : '" In most cases there is delinito Underlies*, on pressure; and acute pain is caused by any forcible and couniltto extension of tilie elbow. In some" ca.-es this pain is f-clt most sharply when the arm is extended and at the samo time supinated (turned palm upward), as occurs when a low ball is struck in tennis. In these casts it is probable that the injury has been inflicted in the effort to take such a ball. In other cases, again, the injury appears to bo caused by a forcible backhanded stroke, and it is this stroke in particular which cause's most pain, and may givo rise to a recurrence of the symptoms after they-'have liiibsidcd. In thesecases tho forearm is extended and pronated! (turned palm downward) and the •extensor muscles of the arm and forearm are chiefly involved." The trouble is probably due, in most cases, to the. tearing of muscular •fibre, and is not usually accompanied by .'-willing. Id is "very intractable to treatment, and liable to recur own. after prolonged rest."