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People with tennis elbow needed for study

21 January 2000

People with tennis elbow needed for study

People with the elbow pain known as "tennis elbow" are needed for continuing research at
The University of Queensland.

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. To date we have tested over 70 patients with this condition and have had good results with the manual therapy techniques we are trialling. Many of our patients have improved function and decreased pain following the technique. We hope to produce a database of information on tennis elbow management to assist all physiotherapists treating tennis elbow," Ms Souvlis said.

Subjects would be required to attend three to four 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).

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