Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is pain on the outer side of the elbow caused by overuse of the forearm tendons. It's common in anyone who types, cooks, lifts or grips a lot, not just tennis players. Homeopathic treatment works on the inflamed tendon and the pattern that keeps it flaring up. Book a consultation with Dr. Chhavi Bansal today.
What is Tennis Elbow?
Tennis elbow is an overuse injury of the tendons that attach your forearm muscles to the bony bump on the outer side of the elbow. Small tears build up in the tendon faster than the body can repair them. The area gets painful, then weak.
The name is misleading. Most people with it have never held a racket. Office workers on a mouse all day, mechanics, painters, gym-goers doing heavy pulls, and homemakers lifting heavy kadhais and pressure cookers (the kitchen is a bigger culprit than people think). Anyone who grips and twists a lot is at risk.
It's often brushed off as a small problem. But once it becomes chronic, lifting a cup of tea or shaking hands starts to hurt, and it can drag on for months.
Symptoms of Tennis Elbow
The pain usually builds slowly. Typical signs include:
Causes of Tennis Elbow
It almost always comes down to repeated load on the same tendon. The common patterns:
- Repetitive gripping : mouse and keyboard work, tools, cooking, carrying heavy bags
- A sudden jump in activity : a new gym routine, a weekend of painting, picking up a new sport
- Poor technique or equipment : heavy tools, the wrong grip size, bad lifting form
- Age : most common between 30 and 50, when tendons heal more slowly
- Pushing through early pain : carrying on with the same activity through the first twinges
If Tennis Elbow is Left Untreated
- Pain that lasts for months, sometimes more than a year
- Loss of grip strength
- Trouble with work, cooking and driving
- Pain spreading into the forearm and wrist
- Flare-ups every time activity goes up again
- Reliance on painkillers or repeated steroid injections
How Homeopathy Treats Tennis Elbow
The usual route is painkillers, an elbow strap and physiotherapy, and steroid injections if those don't work. Injections can bring quick relief. But studies have found that people who get them often relapse more later on than people who don't. That part isn't usually explained to patients.
Homeopathy works differently. It treats the inflamed tendon along with your body's tendency to heal slowly or keep flaring up, based on your overall constitution.
- Reduces pain and inflammation around the tendon
- Supports tendon healing instead of just masking pain
- Improves grip strength and forearm movement
- Reduces the need for painkillers
- No injections, no side effects
- Works well alongside physiotherapy and exercise
The treatment is completely personalised. Dr. Chhavi Bansal looks at how your pain behaves. Worse in the morning or after rest. Better with warmth. Worse on the first movement and easier once you get going. These details decide the remedy, which is why two people with the same diagnosis can get different medicines.
Dr. Chhavi's Approach to Tennis Elbow
She'll ask what you do with your hands all day. Treating the elbow without changing the strain that caused it rarely works for long.
Alongside the medicine, she guides you on rest, an elbow strap where it helps, and simple stretching and strengthening that support the tendon.
One honest note. If the elbow is swollen, red or hot, if you can't straighten your arm, or if the pain started after a fall, get it examined in person first. Those aren't typical of tennis elbow.