📚The posterior compartment of the forearm contains the wrist and finger extensor muscles, which are responsible for extending the wrist and fingers and partially stabilizing the lateral elbow.

🧠Soft tissue mobilization (massage) of these muscles is often implemented in physical therapy and can help with conditions like tennis elbow (lateral epicondylalgia), radial nerve entrapment issues and some wrist pain issues.

🔎To mobilize these muscles, work from the distal forearm proximally toward the outside of the elbow (lateral epicondyle). Tenderness will usually be most severe as you get closer to the elbow where the tendons attach.

👉In addition to implementing soft tissue techniques like this, it’s also important to incorporate exercises that load and strengthen the extensor muscles and their tendons.

✅The tennis elbow program here in the app will teach you the best exercises and guide you through three phases of rehab. Click the link below to access this program.

https://membership.rehabscience.com/programs/tennis-elbow?category_id=260466