With active indoor tennis programs to extend the season, players are now on court year-round, which can lead to wear and tear of the joints and muscles and a rise in overuse injuries. The most common ...

Like many sports, playing tennis can lead to injuries. Many of these are caused by overuse, not enough muscle strength, training too fast, and sudden movements. Learn the most common tennis injuries ...

Tennis elbow impacts most avid players. It is a common injury that occurs when tennis players overuse their forearm muscles ...

Commonly used steroid shots may worsen tennis elbow in the long run and increase chances that the painful condition will reappear, a small study found. By contrast, patients who got dummy injections ...

People with tennis elbow may not benefit from corticosteroid injections over the long term, a new study from Australia suggests. In fact, the findings suggest that the shots may actually make matters ...

Correspondence to Elisa L Zwerus, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shoulder and elbow unit, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis, Oosterpark 9, 1091 AC Amsterdam, The Netherlands; elisazwerus{at}gmail.com ...

Go to the doctor with an aching elbow, and the prescription may well be a cortisone shot. Ah, relief! But that short-term gain may make for long-term pain. There's mounting evidence that cortisone ...

In this March 28, 2019, file photo, Kevin Anderson, of South Africa, hits a forehand to Roger Federer, of Switzerland, during a quarterfinal match at the Miami Open tennis tournament at Hard Rock ...

The first steps in treating tennis elbow are reducing inflammation and resting the irritated muscles and tendons. Ice and compression can help. Then you can begin gentle exercises to strengthen the ...