How to Use tennis elbow in a Sentence

tennis elbow

noun
  • At one point, one of the employees got tennis elbow and had to stop making cubes.
    Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Think injuries such as hamstring strains, tennis elbow or ankle sprains.
    Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
  • That can lead to overuse issues like tennis elbow, rotator cuff tendonitis, and shin splints, to name a few.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Stanton is still managing his tennis elbows, but those achy joints haven’t stopped him from having a solid spring.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Lifters with poor technique can suffer shoulder, neck, lower-back and quad injuries, and even tennis elbow.
    William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Rojas said the plan was to go slow with Stanton, who missed the first 70 games of the year with tennis elbow in both of his elbows.
    Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 30 July 2025
  • Cannabis products make grandiose claims for a range of ailments from cancer to depression, from tennis elbow to insomnia.
    Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Stanton, who has a history of lower-body injuries, missed more than two months to begin this season due to tennis elbow in both arms.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • That makes the belt squat an ideal leg day exercise for people with twitchy backs or an upper body injury such as weightlifter’s shoulder or tennis elbow.
    Men's Health, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Photobiomodulation has also worked for patients with neck and back pain and tennis elbow.
    Praveen Arany, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The set comes with seven different resistance bands designed to help with grip strength and even pain relief for tennis elbow and carpal tunnel.
    Jessie Quinn, StyleCaster, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The pain can be from an injury – like tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, or maybe a strain from weightlifting or running – or even from arthritis or carpal tunnel syndrome.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The treatment is approved by the FDA for the treatment of plantar fasciitis and tennis elbow.
    Allison Aubrey, NPR, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Judge has made peace with the discomfort, the same way Giancarlo Stanton co-exists with tennis elbow in both arms.
    Peter Chawaga, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Aug. 2025
  • The righty-swinging Stanton, who has a history of lower-body injuries, missed more than two months to begin the season with tennis elbow in both arms.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 17 Aug. 2025
  • All have come in his last 24 games after two tennis elbow injuries delayed the start of the 35-year-old’s 16th big league campaign.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Some of the more common conditions include heel pain — often caused by plantar fasciitis — achilles tendinopathy and tennis elbow, which strikes many adults, even those who don't play the sport.
    Allison Aubrey, NPR, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Years ago, Nancy King’s mother was suffering from the painful tendon-strain condition known as tennis elbow.
    Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2021
  • He was limited by an adductor strain after running into a wall and later dealt with tennis elbow inflammation.
    Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Varying forms of exercise can help prevent tennis elbow the same way drinking different beverages can lower any risks those beverages cause.
    Vivi Smilgius, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
  • Stanton, plagued by a long list of lower-body injuries before his tennis elbows, has been nothing but a DH since 2023.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • And, of course, there’s lateral epicondylitis, commonly known as tennis elbow — now pickleball elbow.
    Matt Richtel, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Luckily, x-rays reveal that the lion's lump is something like the big cat version of tennis elbow, not cancer, like Kinsey's caretakers feared.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Alongside helping athletes overcome injuries like bicep tendonitis and tennis elbow, a pair of these compression sleeves also help relieve arthritis pain.
    Popular Science, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Giancarlo Stanton’s tennis elbows could also open lanes for younger hitters like Pereira and Ben Rice.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Ergonomically, the gear-shifting motion is hindered by an encroaching console that promises tennis elbow with every shift to the far side of the four-speed pattern.
    Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Giancarlo Stanton doesn't appear to be returning to the team any time soon due to personal reasons and dealing with tennis elbow in both elbows.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The slugger is continuing his regular maintenance in order to play through elbow inflammation — or tennis elbow — in both arms.
    Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Additionally, Nguyen said, the claw grip might exacerbate elbow conditions such as golfer’s or tennis elbow.
    Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
  • In this case, the subjects had knee osteoarthritis, plantar fasciitis, or tennis elbow, and neither dynamic nor isometric exercises seemed to help.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 4 June 2021

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