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Diagnosis of Tennis elbow

To diagnose tennis elbow, your GP with examine the affected arm and discuss the symptoms with you. Your GP will also check for pain in the area around the elbow by pressing on it, as well as bending the hand upwards against pressure to see if this causes pain.

Tennis elbow itself cannot be seen on an X-ray. However, in some cases it may be necessary to take an X-ray in order to rule out a possible injury inside the elbow joint.

Your GP will also want to make sure pain is not being caused by pressure on a nerve. For severe tennis elbow that has failed to heal, you might need to have an MRI scan. This gives an image of the soft tissues, including muscles and tendons, inside the arm.

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