Physiotherapy treats patients using electrical modalities, exercises, and soft tissue manipulation. It focuses on specialized areas like sports injuries, orthopedics, neurology, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. Sports physiotherapy helps athletes recover from injuries. Common sports injuries include tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, muscle pulls, runner's knee, and ankle sprains. Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, causes pain on the outside of the elbow often in tennis players, cricketers, and weightlifters. Physiotherapy treatments for tennis elbow include ice, heat, ultrasound, stretching, strengthening exercises, and bracing.
2. PHYSIOTHERAPY IS THE BRANCH OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE WHICH TREAT THE PATIENT WITH THE HELP
OF ELECTRICAL MODALITIES, EXERCISE THERAPY,
SOFT TISSUE MANIPULATION ETC.
.
3. DIFFERENT SPECIALIZED AREAS OF
PHYSIOTHERAPY
sports injury.
Orthopedics.
Neurology.
Cardio-thoracic.
Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
Musculoskeletal.
o Physiotherapy in
rehabilitation.
Pediatric.
Geriatric.
4. WHAT IS SPORT INJURY?
Sports injuries
are occurs commonly
in athletic activities.
Due to over use
or acute trauma
5. ROLE OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IN
SPORT:-
Sports physiotherapy is specialized for athletes. This
includes helping athletes recover from injuries. While
this branch of physiotherapy deals with athletes of all
varieties.
8. TENNIS ELBOW, ALSO CALLED LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS,
IS A DISCOMFORT OR PAIN AROUND THE OUTSIDE PART OF
YOUR ELBOW.
9. . Tendulkar suffered an elbow injury during the third test in Sri
Lanka last month which forced him out of the subsequent one-day
series.
10. TENNIS ELBOW COMMON IN:-
o Tennis player
o Cricket batsman
o Racket sport players
o Heavy weight lifters
o Baseball
11. EXAMINATION:
Pain on palpation in
elbow
Resisted elbow extension
Resisted middle finger
extension
12. CAUSES OF TENNIS ELBOW:-
Improper playing style
Overusing forearm muscles
Using manual screw drivers
Plumbing
Playing certain racket sports, such
as tennis or squash
Hammering
13. SYMPTOMS OF TENNIS ELBOW:-
pain and tenderness
weakness
Swelling
Tingling or numbness
Restrict the movement of the
elbow
14. WHAT YOU CAN DO?????
Immediately following your injury, you should
o Rest
o Apply ice
oCompression
oElevation
15. PHYSIOTHERAPY OF TENNIS ELBOW:-
Cold therapy or Cryotherapy
Heat pack application
Ultrasound
Manual muscle stretching
Joint mobilization
Range of motion exercises
Flexibility exercises
Strengthening exercises
General conditioning exercises
Patient education
Recommend brace if necessary
Work or sport-specific rehabilitation
program
16. HOW WE PREVENT TENNIS ELBOW:-
Stretching and warm up
Following the proper technique
of playing
Increased flexibility
Increased endurance
Avoid over use of joint
Increased elasticity
17. CONCLUSION
The type of physiotherapy treatments that
athlete will receive depends on the severity of
his injury. Only Physiotherapist can help him
to decide what appropriate interventions are
best for him.
18. REFERENCE:-
Fracture of lateral condyle of humerus,
page no. 85-88, essential orthopaedics by
J.Maheshwari
The ligaments of elbow, page No. 84-100,
The physiology of the joint vol-1, by A.I.
Kapandji
www.physiotherapynotes.com
www.steadyhealth.com
www.wikipedia.com
19. THANK YOU
Pain is a symptoms, cure the problem and not
only the pain go away, it won't return