Tratamiento fisioterápico de la epicondilitis en un tenista joven

This case-study analyzed the physical therapy applied to a young tennis player with tennis elbow. It was placed in an interdisciplinary health team system for recovery based on the collaboration of physical therapist and trainer, permitting a rigorous and objective analysis of the different aspects considered as determinants for the injury, as well as the seriousness, the causes that provoked the injury and the methods of physiotherapy used for the patient's recuperation. Besides the collaboration of both professionals it was analyzed the causes that produced the injury by a detailed analysis of the amount of physical development of the player and the influence of training charge, the technique used to hit the ball and the material - racket - used by tennis player at the moment to appear the injury, all of it with the purpose to prove that a control of these variables is fundamental for new tennis players as they grow as their muscle structure is not ful developed as with professional players. At the same time, prepare a physical treatment program on the tennis court as a preventive measure for futures injuries during the Accumulation period where the probability of and injury is dramatically increased by increment training volume.