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How To Apply Deep Transverse Friction For Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow

A massage tutor demonstrates the full sequence around deep transverse friction at the elbow. She warms the whole arm with effleurage, petrissage, broad cross-fibre strokes and stripping on the wrist flexors and extensors, then applies friction with the thumb to one tender spot near the outer elbow and one near the inner elbow.

How To Apply Deep Transverse Friction For Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow · NAT Global Campus · YouTube

Video: How To Apply Deep Transverse Friction For Tennis and Golfer’s Elbow, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b04a8I4LXP8

Length4:01
RatingClarity 4/5 · Credibility 4/5 · Relevance 4/5
International massage and manual therapy education provider. Shows the warm-up as well as the friction itself.
Coverstechniques/transverse-friction · techniques/cross-fibre-friction · muscles/wrist-extensors · muscles/wrist-flexors · muscles/extensor-carpi-radialis-brevis
Watchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b04a8I4LXP8

Chapters

  1. 0:00 Arm warm-up and prep
  2. 1:47 Tennis elbow treatment
  3. 3:04 Golfer's elbow treatment

Key points

  • Warm up the whole arm first, focusing on the forearm muscles, before any friction.
  • Find the most tender spot at the junction of muscle and tendon.
  • Press with moderate, steady pressure and move the tissue against the bone without sliding on the skin.
  • Keep the friction going for up to a minute the first time.

Cautions

  • The description makes treatment claims for tennis and golfer’s elbow; in Cert IV practice, refer clients with these conditions.