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Old 04-05-2011, 09:32 AM   #5
troutman
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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler View Post
I had a very, very bad tennis elbow last summer, exacerbated by hyperextending it playing hockey, to the point it was often hard/painful to pick up a cup. The guy that fixed me was Dr. Jay Sheppard in Kensington - he is the guy all the pro/Olympic athletes go to. He used a combination of active release therapy and laser. Now, I personally believe it was the ART that did the trick, but who knows? He is more expensive than most ($59/visit; the laser is $45/treatment), but he fixed me in basically 8 visits.
That's the problem - "who knows?". Your elbow may have got better just by the passage of time.

LLLT seems to be a relatively new treatment, with insufficient data to make any conclusions about effectiveness. More research is needed.
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