One-on-one physical therapy for tennis elbow, golfer's elbow, and stiff elbows after an injury. We calm the tendon down, rebuild its strength step by step, and measure your grip as it comes back.
Tennis elbow is pain on the outside of the elbow, where the tendons that lift your wrist and fingers attach. It shows up when repeated gripping, lifting, typing, or tool use asks more of the tendon than it can currently handle. Pain on the inside of the elbow is its close cousin — golfer's elbow. Despite the names, most people who have it play neither sport.
A helpful way to picture it: an overloaded tendon behaves like sunburned skin — sore and sensitive for a while, but not damaged beyond repair. The answer is not to stop using the arm; it is to dose the load correctly while the tendon calms down, then build it back up. Pain, scan findings, and tissue changes do not match up neatly — a painful tendon is rarely a torn tendon.
Tendons adapt slowly, so recovery is measured in months, not days — often three to six. That is normal, and it is not a sign that treatment is failing. We track two numbers as we go: your pain-free grip strength and a short questionnaire about your arm, so progress is something you can see.
Complete rest may quiet the pain for a bit, but the tendon comes back less tolerant than before. The treatment is the right amount of load, progressed on purpose.
We measure pain-free grip strength at your first visit and re-check it as you train. When that number climbs, the tendon is adapting.
A steroid injection can ease pain for a few weeks, but research following people for a year found the pain was more likely to come back than with exercise-based care. We start with the approach that lasts.
These patterns need a medical work-up first — we will tell you honestly if that is you.
Education plus progressive exercise is the foundation — everything else supports those two.
Your history comes first: where it hurts — outside, inside, front, or back of the elbow points to different structures — what loads provoke it, and what your work demands. We measure pain-free grip strength and screen your neck and shoulder, which can refer pain to the elbow.
Short-term changes — grip size, lifting technique, workstation setup, a taping trial — calm an irritated tendon so training can begin. A counterforce strap helps some people during activity; we test it on you the same day and keep it only if it clearly helps.
Gentle static holds of 30–60 seconds can quiet tendon pain and switch the muscle back on. We dose them to your sensitivity — early on, exercise should be pain-free or close to it.
Slow wrist and forearm strengthening, starting light and building toward heavy strength work over 8–12 weeks and beyond — plus the shoulder and upper arm, because the whole chain shares the load.
Mobilisation with movement and soft-tissue work can ease pain and improve grip right away for many people. They support the exercise program — they do not replace it.
After a fracture or dislocation, elbows stiffen fast — and research shows that early, guided movement within the safe range does not cause more complications than weeks of casting. We progress by milestones, not the calendar, and we never force a stretch.
No phone tag, no guesswork about coverage.
Pick a time on Zocdoc or call us. Most new patients are seen within 48 hours.
Your physical therapist evaluates you one-on-one — strength, movement, training history — and explains the plan in plain language.
Hands-on care plus a progressive exercise program, re-measured so you can see the progress.
What makes a visit here different from a typical PT mill.
Most of every visit is with your physical therapist — we never see more than 2 patients per hour.
Your plan is built on current clinical research and best-practice guidelines — then tailored to your body, your triggers, and your goals. No cookie-cutter protocols.
We check your benefits before your first visit, so there are no surprise bills.
Steps from Grand Central. Open weekdays 11–7 and Saturdays 11–3.
We participate with most major plans. If yours isn't listed, call us — we'll check.
Send us your insurance card and we'll verify your physical therapy benefits — copay, deductible, visit limits — before your first appointment. No surprises.
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