Treat Your Own Tennis Elbow
Chapter 1 titled "This Is the Spot Where All the Trouble Is" tells you where the problem is in your elbow.  Sure you know your elbow hurts, but exactly what structure in your elbow is causing all the pain?  Getting rid of tennis elbow once and for all starts with finding and treating the precise source of the problem.Chapter 2 is "What Went Wrong at Your Elbow".  Now that you know exactly where the problem lies, how did it get to be a problem?  This chapter will tell you.  Turns out the problem has nothing to do with inflammation in your elbow, but everything to do with a failed healing response.  Hard to believe?  Not after you've read the results of a detailed literature search I did on all the studies that looked at the tissue samples of people with tennis elbow. The microscope tells it like it is...Chapter 3 is titled "What Your Prognosis Is".  Prognosis can be defined as a prediction of the probable course and outcome of a disease. Practically speaking, it's your chances of recovery. So if you have tennis elbow, what are your chances of getting back to normal? Is it best to get immediate treatment, or will Mother Nature heal all in time?  After this chapter you'll know...Chapter 4 is titled "A Surefire Way to Help Your Elbow Finally Heal".  Now that you know exactly where the problem is and how it got to be that way, you can begin a targeted treatment plan.  The first part is decreasing the stress on your elbow.  Here you'll learn the correct way to use and apply a tennis elbow brace.  They do work - but only if you put them on correctly - which I show you how to do with a series of pictures.  The chapter ends by teaching you a strategy you can use that helps take stress off your elbow when you must do activities that could aggravate it.Chapter 5 is "Doing This Will Repair the Damage".  Where the last chapter showed you how to decrease stress off your elbow to create a healing enviroment, this chapter shows you specific exercises that have been shown to actually jump start the healing process in your elbow.  Here you learn how to do an "eccentric" exercice that has been shown to encourage a new blood vessel supply in your elbow, promote the formation of healing tissue cells (such as fibroblasts) and healing materials (such as collagen), and actually makes newly formed tissue line up properly.  You also learn how to properly stretch out the problem area in your elbow,  and I've included 8-weeks' worth of exercise sheets so you'll know what to do, when to do it and how many times a day to do it. Remember, making progress with a few targeted exercises is the key to getting better - and this chapter will help you do just that!Chapter 6 is"Measure Your Progress" and contains a handy scale you can use to measure improving elbow function. The book then ends with a reference section - the entire book is completely based on published research studies from peer-reviewed journals and randomized controlled trials - check them out if you wish.