Football. Baseball. Tennis. Golf. These are just a few of the sports that Americans love to play. Each of these sports can help people stay active and healthy, but they can also lead to problematic injuries.
It’s estimated that 8.6 million sports injuries occur every year. Tennis elbow is one type of sports injury that’s reported to affect up to 3% of Americans annually. If you’re one of them, our physical therapists can help you find effective treatment for this sports injury.
Two ways our sports injury treatment may help your tennis elbow
Tennis elbow is a condition caused by repetitive racket motions you make while playing tennis. This condition is worsened further by the strain of the ball hitting your racket and the strain of returning your opponent’s volleys.
When you play tennis often, the repetitive movements and the strain they place on your elbows may cause you to develop several symptoms. These symptoms include things like pain and inflammation in your wrist, forearm and elbow.
Our physical therapists offer sports injury treatment designed to address these tennis elbow symptoms. There are two therapy techniques that can benefit patients with these symptoms.
- Manual therapy — Physical therapists often use manual therapy for tennis elbow. This category of therapy involves the physical therapist using their hands to massage and manipulate the injured elbow. It can also target tissue surrounding the injured area. Researchers from one study report that a type of manual therapy called myofascial release helped reduce tennis elbow pain by almost five points.
- Therapeutic exercises — Your physical therapist can also help you find specific exercises to help tennis elbow pain. One medical study of therapeutic exercise for tennis elbow reports that:
- 81% of people had significant improvements in pain levels
- 79% had increases in muscle strength
- 76% had improvements in elbow function
Border Therapy Services offers effective sports injury treatment
Do you have tennis elbow or another sports injury? Are you in need of expert sports injury treatment? If you answered yes, then Border Therapy Services is ready to help you get the treatment you need. In fact, we offer free screenings to help you begin your treatment. Our team also excels at building personalized therapy plans for tennis elbow and many other sports injuries.
Need to get sports injury therapy from home? No problem! We offer virtual care and at-home therapy appointments so you can receive effective therapy without the need to leave your home. You can even begin using our therapy services without first getting a doctor’s referral.
Don’t wait to start getting our help with your sports injury. Contact us today for more information about our treatment services or to schedule an initial appointment.