Side effects of armwrestling: tennis elbow 09:00 01/08/2014 How to armwrestle without getting pains in your wrist and fingers? Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Armwrestling is a sport with a high risk of top extremities injury. And even though proper warmup and training can minimize the risk of elbow injury, still the “tennis elbow” prevails in the sport. “Tennis elbow” (enthesopathy of shoulder and elbow region) is synonymous with many ailments that result in acute pain when bending elbow, wrist and fingers. It also results in weakening of arm and wrist. Mechanics: As a result of repetitive bending and rotation, the muscle tension can cause injury, inflammation and other pathological changes in muscular-tendon-bone connections. The pain locates itself in a small bone structure ( epicondylus lateralis ) on the outside of the elbow, where all the wrist and finger muscles have their fastenings. The surface of this spot is so small compared to the tensions applied to