People with tennis elbow needed for study

People with tennis elbow needed for study

People with the elbow pain known as "tennis elbow" are needed for a University of Queensland study.

PhD student Tina Souvlis said otherwise healthy people who had experienced pain in one elbow aggravated by activities such as gripping, carrying or even playing tennis for more than six weeks were required for the study.

The aim of the research was to test whether certain physiotherapy techniques could relieve musculoskeletal pain, she said.

"Tennis elbow is a good model of a chronic musculoskeletal pain condition. We hope to produce a database of information on tennis elbow sufferers to assist physiotherapists treating tennis elbow," Ms Souvlis said.

Subjects would be required to attend three to five sessions of one and half hours duration at the University's Physiotherapy Department (free parking available).

For more information, contact Ms Souvlis or research assistant Luen Pearce (telephone 07 3365 4692).