Observation of Two-step Treatment of Tennis Elbow Massage Curative Effect in 42 Cases / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective] The two-step massage treatment of tennis elbow and simple massage therapy clinical curative effect around the elbow. [Method] A total of 80 cases of external humeral epicondylitis were randomly divided into the treatment group(42 cases) and control group(38 cases). The treatment group were treated with the combination of the neck and elbows. The control group was treated only with simple elbow massage. [Results] The treatment group cure rate was 71.4%, the total efficiency of 92.9%;control group, the cure rate was 34.2%, the total effective rate was 71%. The comparison between the 2 groups, the cure rate and total effective rate differences were significant( P＜0.01, P＜0.05). [Conclusion]Two-step massage has better cure effect on external humeral cpicondylitis.