Changing your playing style - Tennis Elbow

The rest and recovery style is required,then think about ways to stop reoccurrence 

turbozed wrote: Simon_plays wrote: Hi everyone, Tennis elbow has hit me fairly badly and I was wondering if anyone has an idea or experience of a playing style that is better suited to playing with this condition?  Maybe it's a good time to try learning to block with anti and have some SP on the FH for smashing?  Are you tensing your arm too much? I didn't think tennis elbow was a common injury in TT. I'd invest in a theraband (or a copycat version). It's helped me treat tennis and golfer elbow issues caused by weightlifting.

I ended up switching hands when I got severe tennis elbow. so that I didn't aggravate my dominant hand. Progress was quite fast and it was helpful to learn from scratch by doing drills with a practice partner. I was able to meaningfully improve my backhand technique & consistency on the non-dominant hand, and it's actually much better than my dominant hand's backhand now. 

A lot of tennis elbow (or what people think is tennis elbow) comes from muscles tightening and pinching on nerves and tendons. So if you strengthen various muscles in the fingers and around the upper and lower arms, and get them to relax so they don't tighten when used, a lot of the pain and issues with tennis elbow go away.  It is rarely a technical issue, and while it is often described as an overuse issue, I see it more as a muscle imbalance issue. If you get your grip to work without squeezing the palm and the fingers get strong enough to grip and hold the bat, it is very unlikely you will get tennis elbow but it takes a lot of strength buildup to get to the point where the fingers can carry the bat by themselves and not the palm.