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● CONDITION · TENNIS & GOLFER'S ELBOW

Hands-On Treatment for Tennis and Golfer's Elbow / Tendinitis

Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) and golfer's elbow (medial epicondylitis) both cause pain around the elbow, often making everyday tasks like gripping, lifting, or twisting genuinely uncomfortable. Despite the names, you don't need to play either sport to develop them — repetitive movement of almost any kind can be enough.

Evidence-based approach to your healing

At our clinic, we take a thorough, evidence-based approach to identifying exactly what's driving your elbow pain, then build a treatment plan around you — drawing on the most appropriate combination of hands-on therapy, targeted rehabilitation, and advanced treatments available across our clinic, to relieve your symptoms and address the underlying cause.

Does this describe you?

  • You feel pain on the outside or inside of your elbow, especially when gripping or lifting
  • Shaking hands, carrying shopping bags, or turning a door handle brings on a sharp twinge
  • Your pain gradually crept in over weeks, rather than from one specific injury
  • Repetitive movement at work, in the gym, or during a hobby seems to make it wors
  • Your grip strength feels noticeably weaker than it used to be
  • The pain radiates down your forearm, or into your wrist
  • You've rested it, tried a brace or strap, but the pain keeps returning once you're back to normal activity
  • It's been going on for months, and you're not sure it's actually improving

If any of this sounds familiar, you're not alone — and it's exactly what we help patients with, every day.

DIAGNOSIS

Types of Elbow Pain and Tendinitis We Treat

Each one needs a different treatment approach — which is why the first appointment exists to identify exactly which is yours.

Tennis Elbow (Lateral Epicondylitis)

Pain and tenderness on the outer side of the elbow, caused by overuse or strain of the tendons attaching to the forearm muscles, often aggravated by gripping or repetitive wrist extensio

Golfer's Elbow (Medial Epicondylitis)

Pain and tenderness on the inner side of the elbow, caused by overuse or strain of the tendons on the inside of the forearm, often aggravated by gripping, throwing, or repetitive wrist flexion.

Chronic Tendinopathy

Long-standing tendon degeneration resulting from repeated strain without adequate recovery, distinct from acute inflammation and often requiring a different treatment approach to resolve.

Repetitive Strain-Related Elbow Pain

Elbow pain linked to repetitive movement at work or during everyday tasks, such as typing, manual labour, or lifting, rather than sport specifically.

Sports-Related Elbow Tendinitis

Elbow pain linked to repetitive movement in sport, common in racquet sports, golf, climbing, and weightlifting, often related to technique or training load.

Referred Elbow Pain

Pain felt at the elbow that actually originates from the neck or shoulder, requiring a wider assessment beyond the elbow itself to identify the true source.

— OUR APPROACH —

How We Can Help

Tennis and golfer's elbow are often treated the same way everywhere — rest, an ice pack, and a wait-and-see approach — which can leave people stuck with symptoms for months longer than necessary. We take a more active approach, starting with a proper assessment to confirm exactly which tendon is affected and how far the problem has progressed, since early, mild tendon irritation and long-standing chronic tendinopathy respond best to quite different treatment.
From there, we build a plan that may combine hands-on manual therapy to ease surrounding muscle tension, shockwave therapy — one of the most well-evidenced treatments specifically for chronic tennis and golfer's elbow — and a structured, progressive loading exercise programme to rebuild the tendon's strength and resilience, rather than just resting it into further weakness.
Our aim isn't just short-term pain relief, but getting you back to full grip strength and the activities, sport, or work that caused the strain in the first place — with a plan to help prevent it flaring up again.

THE ART OF HEALING · WANDSWORTH OSTEO CLINIC
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  • Finalist - Community Practice of the Year 2026
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London SW5 9AS
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