dissertation in tennis elbow and its manual therapy tech.

hi
i want to do dissertation on manual therapy vs conventional therapy in tennis elbow.could u pls tell me the various manual therapy techniques or their websites and also their abstracts or evidence based physiotherapy if possible?
is it the right topic to do or some modifications need to be made?
pls let me know.
thanks



reepa

there has been a lot of studies comparing physiotherapy against conventional management of tennis elbow already. most of them compare cyriax(deep frictions) v leave alone v steroid injection. if you do a literature search like you would have to for a dissertation im sure that you will find a lot of articles. if i remember right there wasnt a great deal of difference between all groups. the steroid group got better quickly but had more incidence of recurrence and long term problems. the physio group got better quicker than the group with no treatment but about 6 months later thay were generally better anyway.

manual techniques would include deep transverse frictions, specific soft tissue mobilisation(glen hunter) and mulligans mobs. other treatments include ultrasound.

let me know if you need any more information. i can probably get hold of some references for you if needed.

Hi - please search this forum under "tennis elbow" for comments and references previously supplied.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by jwilso

there has been a lot of studies comparing physiotherapy against conventional management of tennis elbow already. most of them compare cyriax(deep frictions) v leave alone v steroid injection. if you do a literature search like you would have to for a dissertation im sure that you will find a lot of articles. if i remember right there wasnt a great deal of difference between all groups. the steroid group got better quickly but had more incidence of recurrence and long term problems. the physio group got better quicker than the group with no treatment but about 6 months later thay were generally better anyway.

manual techniques would include deep transverse frictions, specific soft tissue mobilisation(glen hunter) and mulligans mobs. other treatments include ultrasound.

let me know if you need any more information. i can probably get hold of some references for you if needed.

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thank u sir but i wanted some websites/ abstracts related to effect of manual therapy in tennis elbow and the full text if possible.and the various techniques of manual therapy or mobilisation.