, epicondylitis is an insertional tendinopathy, which affects the tendons of origin of the wrist extensor muscles and causes pain on the lateral (outer) portion of the elbow.
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The precise site of pain is on the lateral epicondyle of the humerus; after all, it is here that the tendon origins of the wrist extensor muscles, ie the anatomical structures from which the painful symptoms arise, find their connection.
More than the inflammation of the tendons, epicondylitis is characterized by the degeneration of the tendon tissue; this explains why it is more correct to define it as an insertional tendinopathy, rather than a tendonitis (the suffix –ite, in medicine, indicates inflammatory processes).
