A Pain in the Elbow for Amateur Players
Summary
For every father, the sight of Maria Sharapova embracing her dad after winning at Wimbledon last year was as emotionally charged as watching 11-year-old Roberta's reunion with hers at the close of The Railway Children. Just thinking of it brings tears to the eyes. The entire world is, of course, enchanted by Maria, but it is also awed by her. Rightly so, for she belongs to that higher order of humanity whom the Greeks called the demi-Gods - portrayed on the Parthenon frieze as being just that much taller, more beautiful and more perfect than the mortals processing past them.
Maria is also, like her fellow professionals, very rich, which explains why the seemingly insignificant inflammation of a tendon on the outer aspect of the arm, known as "tennis elbow'', is one of the most intensively studied conditions of the muscular skeletal system.See the full content of this document
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A Pain in the Elbow for Amateur Players
The paradox of the dual function of the hand as both a delicate instrument, capable of the finest movements, and a tool that has a vice-like grip, is...
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