Tennis shoulder and elbow injuries

Abstract

Since tennis involved swinging motion, upper limb injuries are expected, especially “Tennis elbow”. However, in epidemiological studies showed that the tendency of injury is different from players’ skill-level. In this paper, tackle on the definition, etiology, courses (injury mechanism) and reconditioning exercises on representative shoulder and elbow injuries. Furthermore, in recent years, the mechanism of tennis elbow has changed. Due to the development of tennis racket dramatically and the ways recrea-tional players swing, actual example is explained. Regarding on prevention, proposed several exercises from the viewpoint of “making movement” of the swing motion.