“WORLD’S BEST VIBRATION DAMPENER!”
- Tennis Warehouse Australia, January 2007

Tennis Elbow ...

At Own the Zone, we understand Tennis Elbow: we believe that most racquet sports players would appreciate a device that reduces vibrations and enables them to continue enjoying their favorite sport without pain and discomfort.

We have therefore devoted a large part of our research and development towards creating a product that helps alleviate this painful condition, which reduces your time - and fun - on the court. The OTZ band has been purpose-designed to simultaneously absorb initial impact shock and significantly reduce ball impact vibrations .

Hitting a ball produces vibrations that travel through the strings down the racquet to the grip and into the player's arm exacerbating the condition known as Tennis Elbow (lateral epicondylitis), one of the most debilitating and painful conditions to affect the keen tennis player.

 

The following points will help you understand Tennis Elbow – and its management – a little better:

1. Repeated stress and strain, occurring primarily during the backhand strokes cause macroscopic and microscopic tears between the common extensor tendon and the periosteum of the lateral humeral epicondyle, thus causing the condition known as "tennis elbow".
2. Advanced age and frequency of play are the fundamental factors underlying the likelihood of tennis elbow pain.
3. A 2003 study by a leading racquet manufacturer concluded that during their careers, more than 60 percent of frequent tennis players will suffer from tennis elbow. [A frequent player is defined as someone who plays twice a week for more than one hour at a time.]
4. A novice, as compared to an expert player, has more eccentric wrist extensor muscle activity in the backhand strokes. Thus novice players may be more at risk of lateral tennis elbow.
5. The impact induced oscillation of the racquet and arm system at ball contact is believed to contribute to the risk of lateral elbow pain.
6. Off-center as compared to center or “sweet spot” impacts results in approximately three times increased acceleration amplitude values on a player's arm. Novice players will experience off-center racquet-to-ball impacts on a more frequent basis than expert players.
7. Because of the pain of tennis elbow many players cut back on their playing time.

In our program to develop a dampener which reduces vibrations, thus helping to alleviate Tennis Elbow, OTZ conducted a series of controlled and dynamic tests in the lab and on the tennis court. We scientifically measured shock and vibration transfer to the arm and compared OTZ band vibration dampeners to other dampeners. The results can be seen at Racquet Science.

NOTE: Tennis Elbow is a physical medical condition. The information provided here is of a general nature and is not intended to suggest any specific cure or treatment procedure or to make any such claims. ALWAYS consult your physician before embarking on any course of treatment.

 

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