TENNIS ELBOW - LATERAL ELBOW PAIN SYNDROME

'Tennis elbow' or 'lateral epicondylitis' is a name used for painful condition at or about the lateral epicondyle of the humerus. Characteristically symptoms are experienced when the wrist and finger extensors are actively used while the elbow is in extension. Thus far no agreement has been reached as to the appropriate name for this condition because its pathogenesis is still obscure. Only a minority of the patients are actually tennis players, and the term 'epicondylitis' is equally unsatisfactory because the pain may be located at various points in the elbow rather than at the lateral epicondyle. Bowden suggested that the proper term for tennis elbow might be 'lateral elbow syndrome'.