Physiotherapy treats patients using electrical modalities, exercises, and soft tissue manipulation. It focuses on specialized areas like sports injuries, orthopedics, neurology, and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. Sports physiotherapy helps athletes recover from injuries. Common sports injuries include tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, muscle pulls, runner's knee, and ankle sprains. Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, causes pain on the outside of the elbow often in tennis players, cricketers, and weightlifters. Physiotherapy treatments for tennis elbow include ice, heat, ultrasound, stretching, strengthening exercises, and bracing.

2. PHYSIOTHERAPY IS THE BRANCH OF MEDICAL
SCIENCE WHICH TREAT THE PATIENT WITH THE HELP
OF ELECTRICAL MODALITIES, EXERCISE THERAPY,
SOFT TISSUE MANIPULATION ETC.
.

3. DIFFERENT SPECIALIZED AREAS OF
PHYSIOTHERAPY
 sports injury.
 Orthopedics.
 Neurology.
 Cardio-thoracic.
 Obstetrics and
Gynecology.
 Musculoskeletal.
o Physiotherapy in
rehabilitation.
 Pediatric.
 Geriatric.

4. WHAT IS SPORT INJURY?
 Sports injuries
are occurs commonly
in athletic activities.
 Due to over use
or acute trauma

5. ROLE OF PHYSIOTHERAPY IN
SPORT:-
Sports physiotherapy is specialized for athletes. This
includes helping athletes recover from injuries. While
this branch of physiotherapy deals with athletes of all
varieties.

6. MOST COMMON SPORTS INJURIES
 Tennis elbow
 Golfer elbow
 Muscle pull
 Hamstring pain
 Runner’s knee
 Rotator cuff tendinitis
 Achillis tendinitis
 Ankle sprain
 Shoulder pain

7. TENNIS ELBOW

8. TENNIS ELBOW, ALSO CALLED LATERAL EPICONDYLITIS,
IS A DISCOMFORT OR PAIN AROUND THE OUTSIDE PART OF
YOUR ELBOW.

9. . Tendulkar suffered an elbow injury during the third test in Sri
Lanka last month which forced him out of the subsequent one-day
series.

10. TENNIS ELBOW COMMON IN:-
o Tennis player
o Cricket batsman
o Racket sport players
o Heavy weight lifters
o Baseball

11. EXAMINATION:
 Pain on palpation in
elbow
 Resisted elbow extension
 Resisted middle finger
extension

12. CAUSES OF TENNIS ELBOW:-
 Improper playing style
 Overusing forearm muscles
 Using manual screw drivers
 Plumbing
 Playing certain racket sports, such
as tennis or squash
 Hammering

13. SYMPTOMS OF TENNIS ELBOW:-
 pain and tenderness
 weakness
 Swelling
 Tingling or numbness
 Restrict the movement of the
elbow

14. WHAT YOU CAN DO?????
Immediately following your injury, you should
o Rest
o Apply ice
oCompression
oElevation

15. PHYSIOTHERAPY OF TENNIS ELBOW:-
 Cold therapy or Cryotherapy
 Heat pack application
 Ultrasound
 Manual muscle stretching
 Joint mobilization
 Range of motion exercises
 Flexibility exercises
 Strengthening exercises
 General conditioning exercises
 Patient education
 Recommend brace if necessary
 Work or sport-specific rehabilitation
program

16. HOW WE PREVENT TENNIS ELBOW:-
 Stretching and warm up
 Following the proper technique
of playing
 Increased flexibility
 Increased endurance
 Avoid over use of joint
 Increased elasticity

17. CONCLUSION
The type of physiotherapy treatments that
athlete will receive depends on the severity of
his injury. Only Physiotherapist can help him
to decide what appropriate interventions are
best for him.

18. REFERENCE:-
 Fracture of lateral condyle of humerus,
page no. 85-88, essential orthopaedics by
J.Maheshwari
 The ligaments of elbow, page No. 84-100,
The physiology of the joint vol-1, by A.I.
Kapandji
 www.physiotherapynotes.com
 www.steadyhealth.com
 www.wikipedia.com

19. THANK YOU
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