US OPEN TENNIS

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

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 …

Power Tennis Training Don Chu, training consultant to the United States Tennis Association and top tennis pros, presents an easy-to-follow, balanced conditioning program specifically designed to help tennis players at all levels put more power into their game. Through a regimen of stretching, weight training, plyometrics, medicine ball exercises, and court drills, you’ll become faster and able to hit the ball harder. You’ll also find that you’re less injury-prone and can bounce back from injury sooner. Illustrations. Paperback - 165 pages (December 1994) Code Nbr: TB495