Background: Tennis elbow or Lateral epicondylitis is now a days a well known condition with mixed etiopathogenesis
of inammation and microtear resulting in decreased hand grip strength. Among the various treatment options,
therapeutic ultrasound and local steroid injection are commonly used in managing these patients, but comparative effectiveness of these two
treatment procedures are often debated. To compare the efcacy of local cortic Aim of Study: osteroid injection versus therapeutic ultrasound in
terms of improvement in painfree grip strength(PFGS) of affected upper limb. This i Method: nterventional study was conducted on 56 patients
of both sexes within the age group of 18-60 years with unilateral Tennis elbow. They were randomly divided in two groups of same number(28 in
each group)- Group-1: managed with local injection of steroid (methylprednisolone-10mg, single dose) with 2% of 0.5 ml lignocaine and
Group-2 : managed with Therapeutic Ultrasound. Improvement of PFGS was assessed by hand held Dynamometer. Data collected at 0 week
(Visit-1 or Pre-initiation), 3weeks (Visit-2 ), 6 weeks (Visit-3), 12 weeks (Visit-4). For PFGS score, in both Group-1 and Group-2, there Result:
was signicant increase in subsequent visits (p<0.05). The mean PFGS score of Group-1 was signicantly higher than that of Group-2 in visit2(p<0.01), but in visit-3(p>0.05) & visit-4(p>0.05) there was no statistically signicant difference noted. Local Steroid injection & Conclusion:
therapeutic ultrasound both are effective in improving PFGS. Though Local steroid injection is more effective in initial period, but in subsequent
followups, the difference was statistically insignicant.