Millions of Americans suffer from sports injuries every year. A lot of these injuries are both easy to prevent and can successfully be treated with some minor intervention.

In his almost 30 year career, tennis pro Johan Kriek has won fourteen singles and eight doubles titles. So it's safe to say he knows a thing or two about suffering from sports-related injuries. His most important advice. warm up properly. "It's very important that you warm up properly very slowly, don't go for the big serves right off the bat. Warm up properly, you'll be good to go."

Regular tennis player Arnie Wohl heeds that advice and has found success with an easy warm-up exercise to avoid tennis elbow. "Take your fingers and pull then back towards you as hard as you can and stretches your elbow, stretches it out and then between that and putting this bandage on you're good to go."

Even seasoned players like Johan still suffer the occasional injury, and he uses this basic treatment for fast relief." Make sure that you ice your elbow with crushed ice or a bag of peas in the refrigerator, the cheapest way to fix your elbow."

Orthopedic Surgeon John Kagan says that "Use the R.I.C.E. treatment, which is rest, ice, compression, exercise. The human body is amazing. And so it has the ability in most cases, to heal itself. So you just have to give it the ability to do it."

And according to Johan, he probably wouldn't have lost that last set to me if he would have paid more attention to the pain coming from his elbow. "And remember guys as a final tip, when it starts to hurt it's probably best to sit it out and go watch the ladies finals at Wimbledon."

Tennis elbow is the most common diagnosis in patients who are seeking medical attention complaining of elbow pain.