New IR treatment for 'tennis elbow' reduces pain and inflammation without surgery. Tennis elbow, the painful chronic condition that affects up to 3 percent of the US adult population, can be effectively treated through transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE), an image-guided, non-surgical treatment that decreases abnormal blood flow to the injured area to reduce inflammation and pain, according to new research. Source 6i.
I guess the only way to prevent this as much as possible is conducting various types of stretching and exercising. Even though Tennis Elbow is caused by constant repetitive action you can train the body to withstand for longer before it happens again.