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'Every time you flex or extend your wrist, these forearm muscles contract or stretch, putting stress on their origin and insertion points in your elbow and wrist areas.
Regular court time and off-court resistance work can improve the strength of your forearm muscles and tendons and how much load they can bear. But if fatigue, gross overuse, or even one horrendous mis-hit create more stress on one or more of these tendons than they can handle, you will experience pain and inflammation - pain to prevent you from further exerting yourself and possibly worsening the injury, and inflammation to repair micro or macro tears.'
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