Hello, everyone; we are here to share the contest for week 2, Steemit Learning Challenge season 22. I am grateful to all the users who participated in the previous week and supported my course, and thankful to the Steemit team for this opportunity. I invite all the users to share their unique participation and try to gain maximum grades to get selected as the winner of the Steemit Engagement Challenge season 22, week 2. ![Rare Disease Day Quote Facebook Post_20241222_193525_0000.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmeXeGKkm9wsUVBCCaUEav5tBXBGWxncEsw5wrsjefEex9/Rare%20Disease%20Day%20Quote%20Facebook%20Post_20241222_193525_0000.png) [Canva](https://www.canva.com/design/DAGUxXwBICw/E-__H3TCP5U0mzaffF_3bg/edit?utm_content=DAGUxXwBICw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton) ## Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis) Tennis Elbow or lateral epicondylitis is the condition in which pain and inflammation occur on the lateral side of the elbow, mainly involving the lateral epicondyle. As it's named lateral epicondylitis, it affects the lateral epicondyle. ## Causes The common causes of tennis elbow are below: * Overuse or repetitive strain, like people who play sports, mainly tennis, golf, and other racket sports. That repetitively uses the wrist & forearm muscles. * Lateral epicondylitis occurs due to poor biomechanics or posture, like using poor biomechanics while performing activities. * Age-related wear & tear occur due to degenerative changes in tendons and muscles around the elbow region. ## Symptoms The common symptoms shown in tennis elbow patients are: * Pain and tenderness on the lateral side of the elbow. * Pain while grasping or twisting, and lifting heavy objects. * Weakness in wrist and forearm muscles due to repetitive use. ## Types **Acute Tennis Elbow** * The sudden onset of symptoms due to trauma or injury. Symptoms last for a few days or weeks. **Chronic Tennis Elbow** * The prolonged pain and inflammation due to overuse or repetitive strain. The symptoms last from weeks to months. There are other types of tennis elbow, radial tunnel syndrome, posterior interosseous nerve syndrome, and tennis elbow with radial head involvement. ## Diagnosis Tennis Elbow diagnosis can be made by different methods, but commonly used are: * History taking about family, profession, past medical, and surgical history. * A thorough physical examination by a physician or physical therapist. * X-ray, Ultrasound and MRI to assess fractures, arthritis, and any muscle or tendon ruptures, respectively. ## Special Tests In physiotherapy, we perform some special tests to confirm the diagnosis. 1. Cozen's Test 2. Mills Test 3. Maudsley's Test 4. Resisted Wrist Extension Test 5. Middle Finger Test ### Physical Therapy Intervention for Tennis Elbow Physical therapy interventions for tennis elbow for days to weeks to regain normal range of motion or performing activities of daily living, rejoining sports team and subside the symptoms. Here are a few exercise videos that you have to perform to treat tennis elbow patients. Treatment protocols vary from patient to patient. But the main thing is you have to evaluate the exact cause of tennis elbow, whether it's due to overuse or trauma. We can treat this condition completely with physical therapy, but sometimes surgical intervention is required if further damage occurs to muscles or tendons.

### Ball Squeezing Ball squeezing is an important exercise for wrist and forearm muscles. Because with ball squeezing, wrist and forearm muscles strength build and also improves in finer motor activities like eating and picking up anything. https://youtu.be/8h0tSMxLNG4?si=CKQlCH_Mx5BPJ1dh

### Finger Stretch Fingers stretching exercises are to improve the shortened muscles lengthened due to pain compensation. It also improves finger mobility and gripping ability.

https://youtu.be/05H0tjWx8UA?si=swilCRlU7u2vxadr

### Wrist Flexors Stretch Stretches are important to perform to improve the length of shortened muscles for pain compensation. In this video, wrist flexors stretch to improve mobility and flexibility. Also, hold each stretch position in the lesson for at least 5 to 10 seconds.

https://youtu.be/i-JV2PsFzWA?si=gMHarP007QS2-ia1 ### Wrist Isometric Exercises The another important part of treatment is to strengthen each muscles and in each direction. For that reason, isometric exercises are performed in different directions to strengthen the wrist and forearm muscles. In this exercise you also hold the position and also try to resist according to your muscle strength.

https://youtu.be/6J5MUqxUKkw?si=fN8IBpEgDpfFJa_1

Apply a heating pad for 5 to 10 minutes. Also, do soft tissue mobilization before performing these exercises to reduce pain. Perform 5, 5 repetitions on the first week, then increase accordingly. These are the exercises for beginners as other exercises can by performed by professionals and experienced physiotherapist or gym trainer. |Homework Task| |-| - What's tennis elbow? Write in your own words after getting knowledge from the lesson post. (**Note: don't add special tests or investigations in this question. Write the answer precisely**). - How would you diagnose a tennis elbow? Any clinical investigation or assessment tests? - Try to practice at least 3 exercises that you have learned from the lesson. Share images, gifs or videos while practicing preferably gifs or videos. - Share your review after performing these exercises either on yourself, healthy individual or patient. ![divider1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPwjhwDMeGJ2fBB2hsx2V682SGUJ1YTbozk6NqmM83vWn/divider1.png) |Guidelines| |-| *** - You are free to post in any community. - All country members are allowed. You can write your post in any language. - Plagiarism will not be supported. Content should be free of AI. (Content must be **steemexclusive**). - The Title of the Post should be **Steemit Learning Challenge-S22W2; Tennis Elbow"** - The tags are #pti-s22w2 (the main tag must be used in your post), #tenniselbow, and #physicaltherapy; others tags are like your country as Pakistan, club status as club100, and #steemexclusive. - Try to use your pictures, videos or git to represent homework tasks. - Mention my username @ashkhan in your participation post. - Invite your 3 friends to participate in our contest. Upvote and Redeem the contest post so that more users participate in this and upvote. - Share your participation link under the comment section of this post. - Share your post on Twitter by adding a little information about your post and a specific hashtag like fashion, and share link on your post comment section. - **Contest will start at 00:00 (UTC) Monday, 23rd December 2024, and end at 23:59 (UTC) Sunday, 29th December 2024.** - Subscribe to [Steem Physio & Rehab](https://steemit.com/trending/hive-127432) to share your physical therapy related content there. ### Reward **All 4 winners post will be rewarded by Sc01/Sc02.** > Each week we would like all Teaching Teams to make a post announcing the 4 people who have produced the best responses to the assignments and challenges. The selection of the 4 should be based solely on the quality of their post. Number of comments is no longer a factor to be considered. Cc, @pennsif @disconnect