A rehabilitation approach to injury to the medial tendons of the elbow joint and its effect on some physical variables for tennis players

Abstract

Preparing rehabilitative therapeutic exercises that have a significant impact on the muscles working on the elbow joint for players with a stress injury after revealing the location of the injury and weakness in physical and skill performance is the primary purpose of our study in order to rehabilitate players with medial tendon injury and to know the extent of the impact of these rehabilitative exercises on some... Physical variables, because the development of the physical level plays a great importance in all psychological and skill aspects and the achievement of sports achievements. The research problem included some players who continue to play or train for long periods of time to use the elbow joint despite feeling some pain of varying intensity, especially in the medial side. This negatively affects the power of strikes, accuracy, and directing the ball to the correct place on the opponent’s court, in addition to weakness in returning fast and powerful balls. Therefore, the researchers decided to use therapeutic rehabilitation exercises that would help speed up the recovery of the injured muscles and the player’s return to practicing his specialized activity, as well as their positive effect on some physical variables. The study aimed to prepare a rehabilitation curriculum for injuries to the tendons of the medial muscles of the elbow joint and to know its effect on some physical variables, as well as to identify the differences in pre- and post-tests of physical variables. The researchers assumed that there are differences in the pre- and post-tests for physical and skill variables, in favor of the post-tests. The researchers used the experimental method and the research sample was determined intentionally for some clubs in Basra Governorate (Abu Al-Khasib Club - Shabab Al-Basri Club). The research sample consisted of (6) players suffering from stress injury.