TENNIS ELBOW

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 191, 30 August 1937, Page 10

TENNIS ELBOW

Cured by Dentists and Bee Stings A visit to the dentist was one of the cures suggcster during a diseussion aroong menibe':? of the British Medical Association at Belfast rocontly on ' 4 tcnuis elbow. ' ' Though most coiumon in tennis players, this complaint sometimes all'licts golfers, gardeners who use a trowel a great deal, and metal workers who use a hammer. Mr G. Mills, surgeon at Birmingham Geueral Hospital, described manipulative treatinent, which usually produced a rapid cure. "Some cases.are daripatic," he said. "One of my patients could not write, but on coming round from the anaesthetic he immediately sat dowii and wrote me out a cheque. Another patient come to me in the uiiddle of an important tennis touruament and said he could not even hold a racquet. A few hours after manipulation I watched him play a fine game." klr E. C. Elmslie, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, said that he himself had caught tennis elbow by manipulating club feet. "My tennis elbow was cured by liavirig a wisdoiu loolli taken out," lie added. "More cases ure cured by dcutisls tlmu by anvbody else. " Mr Iv. G. Pridie, Bristol, told of a woman patient whose tennis elbow lmcl been immediately cured when she was stung by a bee.