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An injury that bothers mostly table tennis players is "tennis elbow". "Tennis elbow" is an inflamation symptom in the elbow area at the extensors muscles of the forearm resulted in pain during the table tennis movements. There is no specific prevention of this symptom. The athlete has to do a very good warm up with stretching exercises following a specific training program given by the team orthopedist and physiotherapist. In this case (symptom) even the ice treatment for 6-8 minutes after the training session is a prevention.
The treatment of the tennis elbow is the total absence of the athlete from the training for about 2-3 weeks. During this period the athlete can follow a special training program ex. swimming, biking, weight training, physiothetapy. The physiotherapy program includes TENS, laser, ice treatment, ultrasonics and massage.
Courtecy of Nikos Koulopoulos
Physiotherapist
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