Effectiveness of Taping Along with Conventional Physiotherapy for Patient with Tennis Elbow Attended at CRP

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to find out the effectiveness of taping with conventional physiotherapy compare to only conventional physiotherapy for tennis elbow. Objectives: To compare pain intensity at rest, at forceful wrist extension, during forceful grip, during cozen test, at resisted middle finger extension, during palpation at affected site before and after conventional physiotherapy with taping and conventional physiotherapy alone in patients with tennis elbow. Methodology: 7 patients with tennis elbow were selected and randomly assigned to taping with conventional physiotherapy group and 7 patients to the only conventional physiotherapy group for this randomize control trial study. The study was conducted at musculoskeletal department of CRP, savar. Visual analogue scale was used to measure pain intensity in different functional position. Unrelated "t" test used to compare the result. Results: Following treatment the study found that the experimental group showed a significant improvement in case of pain at forceful wrist extension (p<0.05), pain during forceful grip (p<0.05), pain on cozen test (p<0.05), pain on forceful middle finger extension (p<0.025) & pain during palpation (p<0.025). Only in case of resting pain, reduction of pain intensity was not found to be significant. Conclusion: This experimental study shows that taping with conventional physiotherapy is more effective than conventional physiotherapy alone for patients with tennis elbow.