Tameka Duncan PT, DPT, Cert. MDT is passionate about treating the active woman, the active post-partum mom with recurrent back, hip, and pelvic pain, and the female bodybuilding community. Tameka is certified in the McKenzie Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy, which helps her to identify and treat mechanical issues in the spine and extremities. In today’s video, Dr. Duncan teaches us about tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis.
Basically, tennis elbow is where you get pain in.the muscle bundle on the outside of the arm where it attaches at the elbow. Most commonly we see this in carpenters, plumbers, and cooks where you perform a repetitive motion that includes wrist extension. Tennis players obviously as well. Those muscles start at the elbow and come down to the fingers and can be irritated by repetitive motion.
A great stretch for these muscles is to straighten the arm out in front of you at shoulder level with your palm down. Then take the opposing hand and press the hand down to flex your wrist. You will feel a stretch of these same muscles attaching at your elbow. Do 30 seconds or so and then reverse it, by pulling the hand up and back to flex the wrist backward stretching the muscles on the opposite side of your forearm.
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