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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about epicondylitis and death from epicondylitis.
Meaning of epicondylitis
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, epicondylitis:
(a)          means a clinically symptomatic inflammatory or degenerative disorder of the tendons that attach to the medial or lateral epicondyle of the elbow; and
(b)          includes medial epicondylitis and lateral epicondylitis.
Note 1: Epicondylitis typically presents with pain and tenderness over the medial or lateral epicondyle, with exacerbation of pain by the use of the muscles of the forearm, such as with wrist extension in lateral epicondylitis or with wrist flexion in medial epicondylitis.
Note 2: Lateral epicondylitis is also known as tennis elbow. Medial epicondylitis is also known as golfer's elbow.
Note 3: Epicondylitis is also known as elbow tendinopathy.
(3)          While epicondylitis attracts ICD‑10‑AM codes M77.0 or M77.1, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of epicondylitis is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from epicondylitis
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, epicondylitis, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's epicondylitis.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.