US OPEN TENNIS

For those of you who are more comfortable with a hard to pronounce and medical sounding name, it is called lateral epicondylitis. To really get an appreciation of the reasons why an alternative health approach to tennis elbow is a very viable choice, you might consider the way that certain medical conditions are named in Western style medicine. The suffix itis refers to an inflammation. The term epicondyle means a rounded protrusion of bone at the point where tendons and ligaments attach. This would be like the elbow. Therefore, epicondylitis simply means inflammation of the elbow. This points out the Western approach to so many conditions. Even the name of the condition is merely a description of the symptom. Traditional Chinese Medicine is less concerned with the symptoms other than as a diagnostic tool to uncover the true cause of the condition. It is commonly assumed that tennis elbow syndrome is caused by an over use of the elbow. It is not exclusively found in tennis players o …