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Extensor muscles

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Extensor muscles
A group of muscles in the forearm that serve to lift or extend the wrist and hand. Tennis elbow results from overuse and inflammation of the tendons that attach these muscles to the outside of the elbow.
Mentioned in: Tennis Elbow


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All volunteers met the inclusion criteria, which required that the subjects have no pathology affecting the left forearm, no pacemaker, and no damage to the skin overlying the wrist extensor muscles.
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