Talk:Tennis elbow

message: Sorry previous reversion got saved whilst trying to type up the edit summary.
PubMed may be used to indicate the choice of terms biomedical papers tend to use.
* "tennis elbow" = 966
* "lateral epicondylitis" = 932 
* "lateral epicondylagia" = 45
So I suspect this makes "lateral epicondylagia" a trivial alternative choice of terminology at just 2.3% of all hits found, and trivial POVs need not be included under NPOV guidelines.
Whilst I agree the presentation is of either pain or weakness on using the arm, this alone is insufficient in choosing naming terminology - we talk about tonsillitis rather than "tonsilagia" and costochondritis vs "costochondralgia" (although the latter may result in some patients attending hospital fearful of being in the middle of an MI). The underlying mechanism would seem to be of a sprain or inflammation as given by the response to NSAIDs and steroid injections (although like other sprains, physiotherapy, if available, is noted by the article to possibly offer a better longterm approach). Any comments/thoughts ?  David Ruben  Talk  18:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I supoose if significance/triviality of minority POV term is disputed, then the opening might include the extra term with "and less commonly lateral epicondylagia" rather than seeming to give it equivalent and thus undue weight.David Ruben  Talk  19:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Choice of names

message: The cure for tennis elbow is very simple. Use single dumb bells to strengthen the muscles and ligaments in the arm. Do this every second day for 2 weeks and your tennis elbow will be reduced by 70%. Keep doing it for a month to 8 weeks and it will be cured. No doctor will tell you this because doctors only know how to prescribe painkillers and anti-inflamatories, both of which have the same effect of taking the oil light warning out of your car to solve the problem of a car with no oil. ie painkillers will make it worse in the long term.92.10.42.201 (talk) 21:07, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  solution 

message: I am a 37 year old electrician that suffers from this condition, is it that hard to write an article that is not full of medical terms?
Or is the writer looking to alienate those from outside the medical "profession".Trumpy (talk) 03:31, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Let's have this in English?

message: Hi,
I had several painful occurrences of tennis elbow lasting several weeks.  It happened mostly when I used excessive efforts to hit driving backhands with a continental grip.  I found out that if I use the eastern or semi western grip, the radius crosses over the ulna bone in my arm and a different set muscles and tendons become more prominent during the stroke and I never get tennis elbow again.  I also use a little wrist action with my backhand for extra power and less elbow effort. It works for me so I wanted to share this tip. 
Anonymous  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.252.9.111 (talk) 19:08, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  My experience with Tennis Elbow. 

message: I got Lateral Epicondylitis from shoveling snow.  It was the motion of lifting, turning and twisting my forearm over and over.  So it should be noted somewhere in the article that you can get Lateral Epicondylitis even if you don't play tennis as the name would imply.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.100.190.138 (talk) 14:46, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  From other causes 

message: I am a student from California Polytechnic State University in Pomona. We are doing a class project for a Kinesiology class called Movement Anatomy and Kinesiology. The project entails group members to research a topic and to use the research to update a page in Wikipedia. Our topic is Tennis Elbow, obviously. The sections in which we have added new information are: Introduction, symptoms, Prevalence, Prevention, Examination and Tests and Treatment. This is an ongoing process which means that we are still editing and adding information.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sltruong (talk • contribs) 21:47, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Additions Cal Poly Pomona Students 

message: A recent reversion  removed the distinction in the section heading between 'manual' and 'physical' therapies. The claim is that manual therapies ARE physical therapies. I am ok with this idea, except then I think the section heading should be  'Manual therapies'  instead of 'physical therapies' and should be wikilinked. This is because Wikipedia's 'physical therapy' article is about the profession of 'physiotherapists', whereas the 'manual therapy' article describes the therapeutic approach and describes the MANY providers (right now the section heading is more of a plug for physiotherapists). For example: the first sentence in the 'physical Therapy' article is "Physical therapy (or physiotherapy), often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession." Here in this epicondylosis article we have used 'physical therapy' to describe a form of therapy that is provided by MANY health care profesionals. Rather than overhaul the physical therapy article to discuss the approach rather than the profession, or have a misleading section heading, perhaps mentioning both manual and physical therapies in the section heading, or using an introductory sentence (like what was removed in the reversion) is an easier solution? I think one introductory sentence mentioning who provides the therapies that are about to be discussed in the section is helpful, especially if the section heading is left as a misleading reference to a profession rather than a form of therapy.
On a similar note; the reversion removed a source for the statement: "manual therapy is usually provided by physios, chiros, physiatrists, OTs, DOs" with the reasoning that the review was not about elbow conditions. I realize it is not about elbows, it is the best source I can find at the moment for the statement of who provide manual therapies.Puhlaa (talk) 14:40, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: I have also re-added some of the info from the systematic review Re: cervical mobilization and lat. epicondylosis. I agree with qualifying the findings, but the general trend favoured the addition of c/s mobilization, why hide that?Puhlaa (talk) 15:01, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: We do not state medications are usually provided by physicians every time we mention a medication or that surgery is usually provided by surgeons. There is no need for this bland statement. We do not link the headings. Physicial therapies is a clearer term. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:28, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have shortened the heading to "physical" to address your concern and link "manipulation therapy". Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:32, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate your consideration of my concern, and I agree with your solutions. I might suggest we make the heading "Physical interventions" or "Physical treatments", which still disambiguate from the profession of physical therapy, but stand alone better than just "physical". Either way, I am satisfied with the result. Regards. Puhlaa (talk) 23:51, 25 September 2011 (UTC)

text: The main heading is "treatments" thus we already know that this is physical treatments and a second treatment is not needed.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 00:00, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits 

message: doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2012.09.018 JFW | T@lk 21:27, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review 

message: There are many opportunities for improvement on this page.  I edited the opening section and I promise to return to edit the some more of the article to provide citations, balance, and readability.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr311 (talk • contribs) 19:27, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starting a new rounds of edits 

message: "the trial was stopped after 8 weeks because the improvement using the bar for therapy was so significant."
If it was "so significant" why was the trial stopped?
Perhaps the Op meant to say, "not significant."  Still an awkward sentence but at least it makes sense.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.38.197.76 (talk) 03:07, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  nonsensical sentence. 

message: I propose merging Cozen's test into Tennis elbow. The former is a very brief description of a test for the latter.  — Moriwen (talk) 20:34, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 10:09, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal