A tennis player with a pronounced single-handed topspin style of hitting a backhand stroke sustains a painful elbow injury. What are the forces and type of elbow injury sustained by the tennis player, and what are ways to prevent this problem?

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Zackary Jennings

14 November, 19:34

A tennis player with a pronounced single-handed topspin style of hitting a backhand stroke sustains a painful elbow injury. What are the forces and type of elbow injury sustained by the tennis player, and what are ways to prevent this problem?

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Ingrid Escobar · Answer 1

Mechanism of elbow injury:

Repeated tension causing microtraumas;

Stress can be reduced by increasing the grip circumference and flattening the backhand stroke.

Explanation:

The elbow injury is being described as the mechanism of elbow injury. This can further be explained as the ligament injury of the elbow.

There are 3 mains or types of mechanism of elbow injury. These are,

* Valgus mechanism

* Posterior translation mechanism

* Posterolateral rotatory mechanism.

The vagus mechanism is considered to be the most common, characterized with high incedent injury.

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