Sick leave
Sick leave is certainly advisable as long as the patient wears a plaster splint and initially still suffers from postoperative stress pain. During the in-patient stay in the hospital, the patient can receive a certificate of this, which he can submit to his employer. Aftercare and follow-up checks are usually carried out by the resident doctor who has also made the referral and given the indication for surgery.
This doctor then issues a sick note after the hospital stay. The sick note depends on the type of operation, its course and the profession that the patient normally pursues. It can last from a few days to months and can be extended if necessary. As a rule, a minimally invasive technique and an office job require 14 days of sick leave.
Supinator Lodge Syndrome
Another important point is that before the operation of a tennis elbow, the so-called supinatorlogen syndrome should always be excluded. This syndrome leads to pain very similar to that of tennis elbow and is caused by a branch of a nerve (ramus superficialis of the radial nerve) being pinched in the area of the muscle arcade of the supinator muscle in the forearm region. If these two clinical pictures are confused, tennis elbow surgery does not provide any pain relief. Often, however, both diseases are present at the same time and tennis elbow surgery can then be combined well with the open surgery common in Supinator’s syndrome.
