Elbow Strain Treatment
What is Elbow Strain
If you’ve experienced an elbow strain, you understand how debilitating it can be. The pain when lifting, weakness when gripping, and frustration with simple tasks can significantly impact your daily life. Don’t let elbow pain hold you back, book your assessment today and accelerate your elbow strain recovery.
Elbow strain occurs when muscles and tendons around the elbow are overstretched or torn, typically from repetitive movements or sudden force. This creates pain, weakness, and difficulty with gripping, lifting, or twisting movements.
Common types of elbow strain include:
- Tennis elbow: affecting the outer elbow, the most common elbow strain from repetitive wrist and arm movements
- Golfer’s elbow: affecting the inner elbow from repetitive gripping and wrist flexion
- Triceps and biceps strains: involving muscles at the back or front of the upper arm
Research shows tennis elbow affects 1-3% of the population. With appropriate physiotherapy, most people achieve full elbow strain recovery within 6-12 weeks.
Our Elbow Strain Treatment Services
Elbow strain recovery requires addressing pain, restoring movement, and rebuilding strength. We assess your elbow movement and pain patterns to identify specific structures involved, combining rest from aggravating activities with targeted exercises.
We use sports injury physiotherapy principles including pain control through ice therapy and taping, mobility restoration via gentle stretching, progressive strengthening with eccentric exercises, and functional training for daily activities.
Understanding and correcting muscle imbalances is crucial, as weakness in shoulder, wrist, or forearm muscles often contributes to elbow strain.
“After months of elbow pain, the physiotherapy programme got me back to full strength. I’m now pain-free.”— Mark T., Crewe
Why Choose True Physio?
Expert Physiotherapy Team
All of our Physiotherapists are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), which means that they fulfil the highest standards of practice required by law. They are also a part of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), demonstrating our commitment to delivering outstanding expertise.
Initial Assessment
At your initial assessment at True Physio, we will find out where your pain comes from and what your goal is before forming a plan to help you achieve that. Our clinicians will take the time to understand your condition, do a detailed assessment, and explain to you the nature of the problem you have. Treatment plans are created with your lifestyle in mind.
If you’re experiencing an elbow strain, don’t wait to get it treated. Begin your Elbow Strain treatment with us.
