Cold pressed coconut oil can be used both topically and internally. It is excellent for cooking and baking, and is also a fantastic health supplement, and skin and hair care product. It also makes an excellent daily supplement for dogs and cats.
Ultrasound therapy. Ultrasound may help your tendon heal and stop pain. Surgery, which is seldom used to treat tennis elbow (less than 5 out of 100 cases). Surgery may be a treatment option if persistent elbow pain doesn't improve after 6 to 12 months of tendon rest and rehab.
It used to be thought that tennis elbow was caused by inflammation of the muscles at this point, but studies have now shown there is no inflammation. Thatâs why cortisone injections, which have an anti-inflammatory effect, are no longer used. The latest thinking is that tennis elbow is caused by degeneration of the tissues which attach the muscles to the bone. This could possibly be triggered by repeated tiny but repetitive trauma from long-term overuse.