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This is primarily a condition of muscular overstrain, due to the playing of tennis or some other game, or of the muscles arising from the common extensor tendon. The use of too heavy a racket, or of any other tool or implement too large or heavy for the user, may be responsible for the trouble. From the point of view of physiotherapy the primary aims are relief of pain and the prevention, heat and massage are given for the relief of pain. Infrared radiation, and shortwave diathermy, TENS are all suitable.
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