European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Modern Medicine Friday june 17, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 21 Tennis Elbow can be prevented a so cured by Michael j. Halberstam Elbow was first described in the medical literature of 1873, about the time the englishman maj. Walter c. Wingfield applied for a Patent for a portable court for playing the ancient game of Tennis and created the game As we know it. Had nature s design for the Elbow join proved As effective As maj. Wing fled s Tennis court the appointment books of countless orthopaedic surgeons and other physicians would doubtless be less , the Elbow is extremely sensitive to stresses on the wrist extensor Muscles at their origin at the Elbow. Any activity that drains these structures be it Tennis Golf baseball skiing handshaking As with politician swimming gardening carpentry or even washing dishes can inflame the tendons ligaments and soft tissues of the Elbow. A hammering or shaking action with the fist clenched around a handle or Racket is the common denominator. Men and women Are equal vulnerable tothe ailment. It usually occurs Between 35 and so years of age a time when players modes have the strength but not the elasticity of youth. Pressure on the Elbow on the same Side As the thumb when the Palm faces upward will also cause pain As will making a fist Curling it toward theorist and then pressing it against the oppo site hand. This last is the classic Way to distinguish Tennis Elbow from Ordinary sore Elbow there is usually a dime sized tender spot on he outer aspect of the sporting terms Many Tennis players especially the weekend variety tack the muscle Power endurance and flexibility to withstand the overwhelming Force that smashing a Tennis Ball exerts against the players use the wrong equipment rackets Are too heavy handles too. Large Forhand size. Often players use Nylon strings when gut would be easier on the wrist and Elbow. Tennis Elbow candidates also tend to show poor playing form Ese Dally during the backhand stroke when they use forearm rather than shoulder Muscles and do not hold the Elbow and wrist firm at Impact. Not All victims Are weekend athletes however. Some world ass players get Tennis Elbow although in their Case the serve is More often at fault than the Back hand. Prevent Tennis Elbow by doing isometric exercises to strengthen the upper and fore Arm Muscles. One technique is squeezing a Tennis Ball for is seconds at a time As Fotenas possible during the Day. Flexibility and weight lifting exercises both in Modera Tion also help. When Tennis Elbow strikes it is important to see a physician As soon As possible be cause untreated Tennis Elbow can cause great pain not Only making Tennis impossible but rendering difficult everyday tasks like lifting a Book. The classic treatment includes resting the Arm for a week or longer to avoid further Strain and relieving inflammation with aspirin and other drugs. The temptation to keep on playing or to return to playing too soon should be avoided. If pain continues a physician May decide to inject the sore area with cortisone. Then if further rest and strengthening exercises bring no Relief a physician May recommend surgery to remove the injured tissues around the Elbow. About 10 per cent of Tennis Elbow cases Are treated surgically and most players can gradually return to Tennis. Fortunately most cases of Tennis Elbow improve with time and rest. Once symptoms subside by whatever Means recurrence of Tennis Elbow is rare. Thus the saying Oncea Tennis Elbow always a Tennis Elbow is not strictly True. It applies mainly to people who neglect their problem. Treatment is time consuming but usually it succeeds. A Lucky few people even experience spontaneous remission disappear Ance of symptoms but this Seldom happens in genuine cases of Tennis As opposed to sore Elbow. Washington . Ambassador Andrew Young keep insisting that no matter what he says publicly president carte never mentions it to him. This is hard to believe. Since we have nothing but conjecture to go on As to what takes place in the Oval office Well have to base this conversation on conjecture. Well Andy How s it going very Fine or. President. I m really enjoying my work. I did realize foreign affairs could be this much me about Well you get to insult any body you want of you can t believe How Many racists there Are in this world. Do you know they have As Many Racks in Sweden As they do in Queens n.y.?""that Many maybe More. Of course Haven t been to Sweden and i Art Buchwald Don t spend too much time i Queens except to go to the air port but they re seems to be our prob Lem with Sweden Andy nothing. Or. President. Things Are Fine with Sweden. At least they were until i called them racists. Now they re All Don t see of course they re not As upset As the people in Queens. I did t mean it the Way they Toolkit in How did you mean it Well i was trying to make a Point about Sweden and i had to compare it to something. My . Office overlooks Queens so i just said Queens. I could have easily mentioned Brooklyn the Bronx Manhattan or Staten Bland. They re racist is there anything i can do Gocool things Down in Sweden or Queens we could probably make it up to Sweden but i would t give new York another did t i read somewhere that you called England racist also yes sir. They Are too. But they took that statement out of context. What i really meant today was that All of Europe was racist. It s not their fault they s just the Way they Are. Think it s America s Job to Point it out to , do you believe it s advisable to go around the world and Tell everyone they re racists i know it s important but i seems to me and i m new on the Job. That the role of our . Ambassador is to make friends or at least not lose the ones we be already was a i did t know so were Kennedy Nixon but what has that got to do with foreign affairs Andy it s has a lot to do with the africans Are mad at you also the racist ones. The Black countries have inverse racism there and when i told them that they did t like it. That s Why i said Cuba was moderating influence in Angola. Or. President anytime you think i m not doing my Job i la be very Happy to would t want you to do that Andy. 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Do you truly believe Chat the Good lord sends a "gift1 to the abusive Mother the prostitute the unwed teenager not to men Tion the millions of disadvantaged who can t feed the children they already have and certainly Don t need another gift do you also believe that he de Prives the multitude of individuals who so dearly want this Gin perhaps you should set you readers straight and Tell them that nature plays the greatest role in determining who is to have and who is not to have children. I feel confident that god would not waste his Tim sending gifts to those who do not want them. On who has been there dear one i do not believe go gift wraps babies and tends them via United parcel to individual whom he wishes to favor. I do believe however that the Miracle of life in itself is proof that there is a god. Only a greater Power could have dreamed up something to unique and � biologically perfect As Man and imagine of the billions of people who have been born since the beginning of time no two humans were exactly alike when i say remember that a child is a gift of god i mean there is the magic of god in every human yet even if hit Mother was a prostitute or unwed or disadvantaged. People need to be reminded that every new life is a Miracle. Dear Ann Landers Why Don you get out of that Ivory Tower or that Hayloft or wherever it is that you write your column you advise kids who write to you about their problems talk to your guidance Well we have two guidance Counselor in our school. One is a creep and the other is so bus polishing her nails talking on the phone and eating pretzels that she does t have any time for Cousin who lives so Miles from Here goes to a school that does t even have a guidance Counselor. So Why Don t you give these us the help they need turned off dear of first the parents in vow school should get together and tee to it that the creep and the pretzel eater Are , the next letter might be of Tome interest to you dear Ann Landers our school is rather Small. We Don t have guidance Counselor. But we do have an English teacher who Isone of the neatest ladies who Ever i have a problem i ask her for a few minutes of her time.9ie has never failed me. I feel so close to her almost like she is my older sister. She can Tell if i upset or angry or Down. Some times she even asked me to stay and Tell her what s bugging me. So maybe if those us who Don t like their Counselor or Don t Nave one would go to teacher they really like it would accomplish the same thing. Grateful c wifi a in
