Ep 136: Lateral elbow pain 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline, with Drs Ann Lucado and Joseph Day
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The Conflicting Evidence for Therapy Exercise for Lateral Elbow Pain
There is no grade A evidence for therapy exercise. We couldn't make a comment on recommendations regarding deep transverse friction massage or ultrasound as a standalone without any other treatment. For the form orthosis and the risk support brace, we decided on based on an expert opinion that if the person that you're working with is aggravated with activity and they respond positively to offloading the risk then use it. But there isn't any evidence that says that this would be working long term for these individuals. If you look at a lot of our recommendations in this flowchart, I mentioned before particularly loading, we just don't have a lot of guidance as to when and how to load our patients.
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