I am a cardiac surgeon and have had chronic tennis elbow for many years. I have had steroid injections three times - mainly because I had acute pain during each exacerbation and I had to continue to do my job.
It’s unfortunate that I realized that physical therapy is a better option in order to heal the tendon than doing multiple steroid injections.
I learnt about Fiix from google search. From all the positive reviews, I got curious and called and spoke to Ms Lori Porth.
She was amazing - very detail oriented, very knowledgeable and probably was the first person who spent an hour listening to my symptomatology and explaining how the device works.
I stuck to the plan for 8 weeks and my pain has reduced by 90%. I can text or call Lori anytime and she and the other staff are more than happy to answer your questions. I cannot imagine going to a physiotherapist three times a week since that’s impossible for my job schedule.
I can operate now without any pain. I may end up doing another few weeks of treatment to completely resolve it. Steroids give you instant temporary relief but they destroy the tendon and another injury is just waiting to happen.
Please try to do physiotherapy and not steroids at any point - And the Fiix device is the best physiotherapy and you can get it in your couch.
I should say that I am indebted to Lori for clarifying so much stuff about tennis elbow that my health care providers neither had the time nor knowledge to share with me. She is an angel!!
