We commend Nourbakhsh and Fearon for performing clinical research related to the treatment
interventions of lateral epicondylosis during this day and age of evidence-based practice.
Today's competitive health care environment forces hand therapists to advance our
profession by being critical of the literature when choosing effective treatment interventions.
There are several elements that hand therapists should consider to make educated decisions
for treatment interventions from the hand therapy body of evidence. The areas we examined
to assist us with reviewing this study included 1) the current best evidence regarding
the histopathology of lateral epicondylosis, 2) reliable and validated outcome measurements
to measure effects of interventions for this condition, 3) treatment effect to generalize
this treatment to our patient population, and 4) short- and long-term follow-up of
study patients.
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