RADIOHUMERAL BURSITIS, EPICONDYLITIS, EPICONDYLALGIA (TENNIS ELBOW)

Abstract

Tennis elbow, as it has been commonly called in this country and Great Britain, or the epicondylitis of Franke, or the epicondylalgia of Féré, is a condition that is fairly common among tennis players, though by no means confined to them. The first mention of the lesion which I have been able to find was by Bernhardt, in 1896, in theNeurologisches Centralblatt, "On a Little Known Form of Occupational Neuralgia." He states that Remak had previously reported a case. The most significant contributions on the subject since this article have been made by Bähr¹in 1900, Clado²in 1902, Preiser³in 1907 and 1910, Vulliet⁴in 1909, Franke⁵in 1910, Momburg⁶in 1910, Coues⁷in 1914, and Dubs 8 in 1920. The articles by Coues, 7 in English, and Dubs,⁸in German, are the most illuminating and complete which I have seen.