I hurt my arm while playing tennis (when hitting backhand to be precise) and I’m pretty sure I have tennis elbow (all the symptoms fit). But even before it happened my wrist hurt a bit and I had restricted range of movement (for example it hurt when I bend it towards my arm or if I put pressure on it).

So I bought this tennis elbow support but I was wondering should I also buy the wrist support? Or would it be just too much? It’s all for the same arm.

The thing is I’m abroad so I can’t really be bothered to go to doctor so will be very grateful for any advice on that from tennis players / physicians.

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how experienced were you when you started? was it very hard? i wanna know what exercises i can do to improve my tennis skills. i have a good backhand but im a little rusty. and im afraid that my soon-to-be tennis coach wont be that good. is it okay to do simple exercises by myself, like running with weights?
i mean wrist weights.

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Two weeks ago, i started playing tennis with my friends in our neighborhood park. i had never played before. At first we were just fooling around, but after finding out that i liked tennis, i started getting a bit more serious. I youtubed videos about forehands and the such and saw my school coach for 1 day to ask about the form on a forehand. (he lives in my neighborhood.) The next day, with my friends, I started ripping balls, trying out the forehand. (each of these days btw, we were playing for around 1.5 hrs) That night, my hand started to hurt big time. The next day the pain was gone, but would come back whenever i shook somebody’s hand or tryed to grip something. A few days later, i thought it was better so I tried to play again. The pain came back, along with a pain going down my first finger, and stretching to my elbow. Now whenever I make the forehand follow through motion, even without a racket, I feel a slight discomfort at my elbow, and handshaking still hurts, but very little. Ive found that the pain can also be created by pulling up on my first knuckle while holding the second down, or by pressing on a point on my first knuckle bone about an inch higher than my wrist. (metacarpal?) Its been a week and a half since I last played tennis, but just by doing these things I can still feel pain. Im on vacation now so I cant see a doctor (im in india), but can anyone tell me what this pain is or if it is tennis elbow? I hear that tennis elbow comes from repetitive straining, but I have really only been playing tennis for 2 or 3 days and doing a proper forehand for 1 day. My backhand does not hurt at all, and it hurts much more if I actually hit a ball while doing the forehand motion. Im 15 btw. Sorry for all this info, but I really need to be sure if this is serious or not because I want to try out for my HS team come spring.
thanks, and i realize my mistake, but right now i need info on what i did to my hand, whether I pulled a muscle or what.

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After about 10 serves or so the area around my elbow begins to ache. The ache is mostly on the muscle in between my bicep and my elbow. Is this from improper serving mechanics? (I have never been coached) If so, what are the correct mechanics to serving without hurting myself?
Even though I haven’t been coached I have done some self research. I use a continental grip on my flat serve and an eastern backhand on my spin serves. Going through my motion, I noticed that I snap my elbow, should I use more shoulder, or just strengthen my elbow like others have suggested?

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Hi i’ve been having this problem when playing tennis only when i’m serving, and only when i try to serve hard. My elbow joints start to hurt. A lot of people say you’ve got a tennis elbow, but i don’t think it is. My elbow just hurts when i try to serve really hard, if i serve softly i don’t feel pain and i don’t feel it when i’m doing my forehand or backhand, and the pain goes away after a day.
Could anyone tell me what kind of symptoms this is and what i can do to stop it.

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i think i might have tennis elbow cuz i use bad technique on my backhand
it’s just my wrist that hurts for now
but i wanted to know:
1. how do u know for sure you have it?
2. what happenes if you dont treat it?
3. is this a serious condition?
plz feel free to add extra comments about this! like past experience!

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