Effectiveness of individualized homoeopathic medicine in fiftymillesimal potency in the treatment of tennis elbow:pre-post interventional study

Tennis elbow is a inflammatory condition is also known as lateral epicondylitis (mainly lateral area involve in elbow). It is a common problem of extensor muscle of forearm, mainly affect extensor carpi radialis bravis tendon, it’s also known as tendinitis. Tennis elbow as estimated to affect 1-3% of the adult population each year, but there was no correlation with gender. High Prevalence seen in 40-50 yrs old population. Predominant symptom is intermittent pain and tenderness in the region of lateral epicondyle of humerus. Homoeopathy treating the patient on the idea of individualization. Many researches already done upon tennis elbow in specific homoeopathic medicine. My intension is to study effect of individualization homoeopathic medicine on fiftymillesimal scale in case of tennis elbow including pain associated with tenderness. Numerous patients visit with complaints of pain and tenderness in elbow due to various causes in the OPDs of Mahesh Bhattacharyya Homoeopathic College and Hospital including those discontinued with the modern medications. I took interest to show the response of individualized Homoeopathic medicines in improvement of symptoms in case of tennis elbow using fiftymillesimal potency. primary outcome measure is patient rated tennis elbow evaluation (PTREE) questionnaire. Total study duration will be 18 months; each patient will get 3 consecutives follow up after 1 months each ,as per required.