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Akron, Ohio – September 8, 2010 – A simple and novel exercise using the Thera-Band® FlexBar® has been found to be effective at reducing the pain associated with chronic lateral epicondylitis — a.k.a. tennis elbow. Two recent studies support the effectiveness of this inexpensive treatment.
The first study, published in the September 2010 issue of Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery[1], measures the effectiveness of an exercise that utilizes the Thera-Band® FlexBar® exerciser, a flexible bar designed for wrist, forearm and hand rehabilitation. The study was conducted by researchers from the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma in New York City.
“With up to three percent of the population suffering annually with tennis elbow — a condition attributed to racket sports but can occur from simple everyday activities — we felt this population deserved an inexpensive and at-home treatment option to in-clinic machine-assisted or injection treatments,” stated Timothy Tyler, PT, ATC, and lead author of the study.
A second study was conducted to investigate the electromyographic (EMG) activity of the wrist extensors and flexors while performing the exercise. An EMG is a method of evaluating More >
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The “Tyler Twist” using the Thera-Band FlexBar continues to receive lots of media coverage. The novel tennis elbow exercise, developed by Tim Tyler, PT ATC in New York, has been shown effective at reducing the symptoms of tennis elbow.
- The May 2010 issue of Health Magazine featured the “Do it yourself cure”
- The May 15, 2010 Bottom Line Personal issue described the exercise in their “Self Defense” section.
Check out more coverage in the New York Times, Readers Digest, and Reuters among others.
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Note: the ‘unwinding’ portion of the exercises should be performed very slowly, for 5 seconds.
Akron, OH – Performance Health / Hygenic Corporation announces the introduction of new Thera-Band FlexBar, Yellow Resistance, for upper extremity rehabilitation and stabilization training. New Thera-Band FlexBar Yellow is the Extra Light resistance option for beginning rehab, pediatric, or geriatric patients, joining the Thera-Band color progression family of Red/Light, Green/Medium, and Blue/Heavy resistances.
Thera-Band FlexBar is 12” in length, contains a ribbed surface for secure grip, and is supplied in 4 progressive resistances beginning with new Thera-Band Flexbar Yellow and progressing to Red, Green, and Blue resistance levels for greater challenge. Made from dry natural rubber, the resistance of the Thera-Band FlexBar is increased by the force required to bend, twist, or oscillate the bar while holding it securely at one or both ends.
Thera-Band FlexBar is used routinely by therapists and trainers for clinical rehab and sold by Thera-Band authorized healthcare distributors.
Recently, New York physical therapist
Tim Tyler developed and researched the
“Tyler Twist” exercise with the
Thera-Band® FlexBar® for his patients with
lateral epicondylitis, or “tennis elbow.” The exercise was so effective that he terminated the clinical trial because the test subjects were improving so quickly over the control group of patients. As word of the success of his exercise spread, many people began to ask, “Will a similar exercise with the FlexBar work for golfer’s elbow?”
Golfers Elbow is technically known as ‘medial epicondylitis’ and is characterized by pain on the medial (inside) of the elbow, in contrast to the lateral elbow pain of tennis elbow.
In response to the many requests for an exercise for Golfer’s Elbow, Tyler invented the “
Reverse Tyler Twist.” The
exercise uses the same Thera-Band FlexBar color progression, and emphasizes an eccentric contraction of the wrist flexors and pronators, in contrast to eccentric contraction of the wrist extensors with the Tyler Twist. “We think the Reverse Tyler Twist will have similar results for medial elbow pain, but we don’t know for sure, so we’re going to do a study on this exercise as well,” said Tyler, a research associate with the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic
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