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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Duloxetine in treatment of refractory chronic tennis elbow: Two case reports | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Duloxetine in treatment of refractory chronic tennis elbow Two case reports Zaid Ahmad Wani 1 Shabir Ahmad Dhar2 Mohammad Farooq Butt2 Yasir Hassan Rather1 and Shano Sheikh3 Address Department of Psychiatry Government Psychiatric Diseases Hospital GMC Srinagar Kashmir J K 190010 India 2Department of Orthopaedics GMC Srinagar Kashmir J K 190010 India and 3Department of Psychology Jamia Milia Islamia Jamia Nagar New Delhi 110025 India Email Zaid Ahmad Wani - zaidwani@ Shabir Ahmad Dhar - shabirdhar@ Mohammad Farooq Butt - mfbutt72@ Yasir Hassan Rather - hrather@ Shano Sheikh - shiekhshanoo@ Corresponding author Published 17 September 2008 Received I March 2008 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008 2 305 doi 1752-1947-2-305 Accepted 17 September 2008 This article is available from http content 2 1 305 2008 Wani et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Tennis elbow is a common musculoskeletal disorder management options include physiotherapeutic medical surgical and other forms of intervention. Some patients remain symptomatic despite best efforts. We present two patients who did not respond to medical and surgical treatments and whose symptoms were relieved with duloxetine. This is the first report on the use of duloxetine to treat tennis elbow. Case presentation Two mentally healthy young Asian women aged 32 and 27 years each with tennis elbow of about 18 months duration continued to suffer pain despite treatment with analgesics local steroid injections .