Problem: Related to tennis elbow?

[Woodstock_Tennis]

I've been playing for a few years (20), and have had no problems in the pain area. However, I've recently switched to a two handed backhand (had a nice one handed but found the two hand to give a little bit more room for error), but now my right elbow has some pain (left handed btw).

Could this be the infamous tennis elbow? How would you find out for sure? What causes it, and how to treat it?

[Woodstock_Tennis]

Should prob make it more clear, been playing for 5 and now 20 heh.

[Marius_Hancu]

Yes, it is TE.

For whatever reasons, you 2HBH seems to be more "elbowy."
You should minimize the bend in your elbow (but not lock it), and not hit from it, but from your shoulders, torso, legs.

Get to a coach.

Also, look at your racquet, strings, tension.

FWIW
check my posting here:

Best arm friendly racquets?
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=77937

check my signature here:

Great fitness sites
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=33800

esp the Elbow and Wrist Pain sections

[samoca]

I would suggest switching to Babolat VS Team 17. The Racquet Stringers Association (don't remember exact acronym) rated it as the softest string available besides Pacific Gut (not available in U.S. currently). My constant arm pain just faded away, never to return. It's worth the money for me (but I'm not a string breaker). I never expected the results to be this good. I will say that my form is better (due to constant lessons)--I have a great Volkl head light racquet (but I had the racquet for a year before switching to the Babolat gut), and I'm playing one day less a week (basically to preserve my knees) but I had biceps tendinitis for 2 years (not TE) that would not go away until I did this. FWIW, I'm 60, play 3 times a week.

[rasajadad]

I would suggest switching to Babolat VS Team 17. The Racquet Stringers Association (don't remember exact acronym) rated it as the softest string available besides Pacific Gut (not available in U.S. currently). My constant arm pain just faded away, never to return. It's worth the money for me (but I'm not a string breaker). I never expected the results to be this good. I will say that my form is better (due to constant lessons)--I have a great Volkl head light racquet (but I had the racquet for a year before switching to the Babolat gut), and I'm playing one day less a week (basically to preserve my knees) but I had biceps tendinitis for 2 years (not TE) that would not go away until I did this. FWIW, I'm 60, play 3 times a week.
Pacific gut is available. The importer is in Santa Barbara, CA. You can google it easily.
When I started my 2HBH I had a little soreness in my left (non-dominant) forearm. With me it was just soreness from never having used that arm, then hitting 800 backhands a day for a week. Ice it, advil it, massage it. Give it a couple of days before you make a diagnosis.

[Woodstock_Tennis]

Thanks for the advice guys, not yet ready to say its tennis elbow. Will give it another week, think it might just be a little sore, 15 years of baseball and tennis being a lefty prob. means I need to give my right arm some time to recover.

[Marius_Hancu]

Babolat Tonic 16 is less expensive than VS and very good, IMO.