Treatment of Tennis Elbow - a Review

Lateral epicondylitis (Tennis Elbow) is the most frequent type of myotendinosis and can be responsible for substantial pain and loss of function of the affected limb. The research reviews the literature pertaining to types of treatment and their efficacy. This article present on overview of the current knowledge on lateral Epicondylitis and focuses on Etiology, Diagnosis and treatment strategies, conservative treatment. For this purpose, a review of the literature on the effectiveness of low level laser therapy, ultrasound, phonophoresis, shortwave diathermy, electromagnetic field therapy, iontophoresis and extracorporeal shock wave therapy for LE was carried out.

The present study shows that the use of ultrasound has been proved much effective in the tennis elbow.