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Why Surgery and Cortisone Are Failing Lateral Epicondylitis (And What Works Instead)
In this episode of The Sports Medicine Research Rundown Podcast, co-hosts Tim Tyler, PT, ATC, and Rob Shapiro, DPT, COMT, NKT, welcome back an orthopedic sports fellowship alumnus (Faculty Practice, Mount Sinai West) to dissect the modern management of recalcitrant lateral epicondylalgia (tennis elbow).
Despite being labeled an "-itis," chronic extensor carpi radialis brevis (ECRB) pathology is characterized by angiofibroblastic hyperplasia, tenocyte apoptosis, and failed collagen synthesis—rendering traditional anti-inflammatory treatments and cortisone injections counterproductive. Our…
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