ABSTRACT
Perhaps the most common soft tissue lesions are those affecting the extensor and flexor insertions at the elbow, as in tennis and golfer’s elbow, so called because the bad tennis forearm drive or the bad golf swing reputedly causes these conditions. In these lesions, the tendon substance (tenoperiosteal junction), which has no synovial sheath, itself becomes inflamed or degenerative and is a tendinopathy rather than an inflammatory tenosynovitis (in which the tendon synovial sheath becomes inflamed).
