Tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow are tendon problems at the outside or inside of the elbow, usually from repetitive gripping, lifting, typing, or swinging. The pain sits right at the bony bump, but the real issue is a tendon that got overloaded and stalled in its healing.
These respond poorly to rest alone and very well to the right loading plus hands-on care, which is exactly how we treat them.
Why braces and rest rarely finish the job
A strap or a few weeks off can take the edge off, but the moment you go back to gripping and lifting, the pain returns, because the tendon was never rebuilt to handle load. A stalled, degenerated tendon needs to be loaded correctly to heal, not just protected.
We treat the tendon and the muscles feeding it with Graston and dry needling, use shockwave to restart healing when it is stubborn, and then progressively load the tendon so it gets strong and pain-free.
How we treat elbow pain
- Soft-tissue work and Graston on the tendon and forearm
- Dry needling for tight, overworked forearm muscles
- Shockwave for chronic, stalled tendon cases
- Progressive grip and forearm loading to rebuild the tendon