For example, your elbow joint has two muscles that move your forearm up or down. These are the biceps on the front of the upper arm and the triceps on the back of the upper arm: to raise the ...

Contrary to its name, tennis elbow is not only restricted to tennis players. This painful, frustrating condition can be ...

And if the bony constraints provide enough stability to the elbow, despite torn muscles and ligaments, then that athlete can typically return to play very, very quickly. Clearly, physical therapy ...

From raising a fork to throwing a ball or turning a doorknob, your elbow gets a lot of use during everyday activities. Injury ...

1 Division of Physiotherapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2 School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Griffith University, Gold ...

The trapezius muscle can act as a fixator when the biceps is flexing the elbow joint. The abdominals can act as fixators to stabilise the body for hip and knee movements. Preparation and execution ...

Exercises suitable for tennis elbow can help strengthen forearm muscles and improve function. People whose jobs involve repetitive forearm movement can perform these exercises to help prevent ...

2 Biomechanical analysis of these forces, loads and motion on the elbow in tennis will lead to an improved understanding of the pathophysiology of injuries in tennis. Common injuries encountered ...

The point is to isolate your biceps muscle, which is difficult if you're moving your torso and digging your elbow into your thigh. One of the most useful things about arm training is that you can ...

Pitchers with deficits in total shoulder rotation range of motion (ROM) are 2.6 times more likely to experience an elbow injury. Despite the effects of shoulder ROM on elbow injury, it is currently ...