Talk:Tennis elbow

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[edit] Choice of names

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PubMed may be used to indicate the choice of terms biomedical papers tend to use.

• "tennis elbow" = 966
• "lateral epicondylitis" = 932
• "lateral epicondylagia" = 45

So I suspect this makes "lateral epicondylagia" a trivial alternative choice of terminology at just 2.3% of all hits found, and trivial POVs need not be included under NPOV guidelines.

Whilst I agree the presentation is of either pain or weakness on using the arm, this alone is insufficient in choosing naming terminology - we talk about tonsillitis rather than "tonsilagia" and costochondritis vs "costochondralgia" (although the latter may result in some patients attending hospital fearful of being in the middle of an MI). The underlying mechanism would seem to be of a sprain or inflammation as given by the response to NSAIDs and steroid injections (although like other sprains, physiotherapy, if available, is noted by the article to possibly offer a better longterm approach). Any comments/thoughts ? David Ruben ^Talk 18:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

I supoose if significance/triviality of minority POV term is disputed, then the opening might include the extra term with "and less commonly lateral epicondylagia" rather than seeming to give it equivalent and thus undue weight.David Ruben ^Talk 19:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] grammar

the grammar on this article is awful. please revise. these are the only sentences i read so the rest of the article could probably use editing as well.

Tennis elbow is a condition where the outer part of the elbow becomes painful and tender knee kap, usually as a result of a specific strain or overuse of such knee .

The Use of Laser Therapy (Low Power or Low Intensity Laser Therapy) is a currently used treatment.