Tennis Elbow & Homeo-medicines

What is Tennis Elbow ?

     It is a painful disease of outer portion of elbow joint, commonly experienced by the tennis players (so the name originates) due to inflammation or injury / tear of tendons attached to muscles inserted onto the outer portion of elbow joint. It results from over-strain of elbow-joint; however, injury, sudden over-stretch of elbow or overuse of wrist joint and forearm may cause the disease and anybody other than a tennis player may be affected.

Who are the common victims ?

• Aged ladies particularly housewives (>40yrs)

• Maids who use forearm too much to clean utensils/wash clothes

• Tennis players / Badminton players / Table-tennis players / Golf plyers

• Gymnasts

Why are homeo-medicines the best alternative?

• Natural medicines

• Having nil side-effects

• Cure comes without any untoward event

• No chance of suppression and consequent disease metastasis

Most effective homeo-medicines for Tennis Elbow

1)Bellis Per.: Tennis elbow with wrist of affected side felt contracted as if elastic band around wrist.

2)Calcarea Carb.: Tennis elbow of persons with moist cool palms/soles; joint swollen with sharp /sticking pain;

3)Carbo An.: Affected elbow joint very weak, least weight felt too heavy; pain comes down to wrist;

4)Causticum: Dull / tearing pain with numbness / loss of sensation of the affected side;

5)Cocculus Ind.: Affected arm goes to sleep, numbness with inflammation of elbow joint; trembling & unsteadiness of the limb;

6)Conium: Affected limb heavy, weary, paralyzed; profuse perspiration of hands;

7)Rhododendron: Stiffness of wrist & hands; worse when rest, before thunder-storm;

8)Rhus Tox.: Limbs stiff, paralyzed with loss of  power in forearm and crawling sensation on the tips of fingers;;  

9)Ruta Gr.: Pain with stiffness in wrists and hands; worse lying down, from cold wet weather;