Tennis Health
A Guide For Tennis Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation
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When performing repetitive physical activities such as those required by tennis, the body is subject to two types of problems: overuse injuries and acute injuries. Overuse injuries refer to injuries that develop over time. This means that relatively forceful motions produced at certain body parts can impart cumulative stresses on the tissues in that body part. If these tissues are not healthy or conditioned enough to properly tolerate such repetitive motions, they can break down over time. This can result in lingering soreness, pain, swelling or more serious types of injury, which in turn can impair one’s performance and possibly even participation for indefinite amounts of time. Such types of overuse injuries are tendonitis or bursitis, which commonly involves shoulder and elbow musculature, and even arthritis, which is wearing down of protective cartilage within joints. The other noted injury is an acute injury. This happens with a single traumatic event disrupting the stability of a particular joint by damage to muscle, tendon, ligament or bone. Such examples of acute injuries may be ankle sprains, hamstring strains, or fractures.
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About the Book
Given my strong interest in both tennis play and my career as physical therapist, developing a specialty interest with tennis wellness and rehabilitation was a natural transition. So often while playing tennis, I would be approached by other players or friends regarding ways to either help treat existing tennis related injuries or how to better train the body for improved tennis play. My goal with this book is to educate the readers on the involved anatomy in tennis and how this anatomy is affected by tennis participation. It also deals common tennis related injuries and guidance in utilizing exercise and activity modification to rehabilitate injuries. More importantly I hope to inform the reader of how to better condition and train the body to better tolerate the rigors of tennis participation, thus preventing onsets of injury. Ultimately, "Tennis Health" is geared to allow one to achieve peak performance of play by avoiding injury and/or quicker return to play after injury.
About the Author
Casey Deaton, MPT has a B.S. in kinesiology with human movement/sports medicine concentration from Louisiana State University (1995) and a M.P.T. (Masters of Physical Therapy) from Louisiana State University Health and Sciences Center (1999). He has participated in tennis since the age of 8 including USTA competitive junior and recreational play. He has been involved in sports medicine, wellness and fitness training since 1991. Since 1999 he has been employed as a physical therapist in the outpatient setting emphasizing orthopedic and sports injury rehabilitation/prevention, sports and wellness training, as well as special concentrations in tennis related injury, foot/ankle and spinal mechanics.