Suffering from Elbow Pain?
When you feel pain in your elbow it is not due to a traumatic injury, it can mean you are suffering from elbow pain. Elbow overuse and minor muscle strain are also considered as elbow pain.
Elbow disorder might happen because of many different conditions affecting your joint or the surrounding tissues or muscles. Swelling might occur from inflammation of bursa.
Generally, elbow pain is a common complaint in the medical world. In most cases, elbow pain is not a serious and usually it originates from the tendons or muscles around elbow area, as a result of injury or overuse. Below are the list of elbow problem:
Elbow disorder might happen because of many different conditions affecting your joint or the surrounding tissues or muscles. Swelling might occur from inflammation of bursa.
Generally, elbow pain is a common complaint in the medical world. In most cases, elbow pain is not a serious and usually it originates from the tendons or muscles around elbow area, as a result of injury or overuse. Below are the list of elbow problem:
Golfer's Elbow
What is Golfer’s Elbow? Golfer’s Elbow is an inflammatory condition of the elbow on the anterior forearm contains several muscles that are involved with flexing the fingers and thumb, and flexing and pronating the wrist.
What are the causes?
What are the causes?
- Reptitive stress injury
- Sudden increase in activities on that tendon
- Anti-inflammatory medication
- Cortisone injections
- Stretching and exercise
Olecranon
What is Olecranon? When you bend your elbow, you can easily feel its “tip,” a bony prominence that extends from one of the lower arm bones (the ulna). That tip is called the olecranon.
What are the causes?
What are the causes?
- A direct blow
- An indirect fractures
- Sudden intense pain
- Inability to straighten elbow
- Bruising around the elbow
- Tenderness to the touch
- Numbness in one or more fingers
- Pain with movement of the joint
- Splinting
- Surgical treatment
Tennis Elbow
What is Tennis Elbow? Tennis elbow is characterized by soreness or pain on the outside of the upper arm near the elbow. There may be a partial tear of the tendon fibers which joins the muscle to bone near their point of origin on the outside of the elbow.
How is it diagnosed? The diagnosis is made based on signs and symptoms given that x-rays usually appears normal. There will often be pain or tenderness when the tendon is gently pressed near where it attaches to the upper arm bone, over the outside of the elbow.
What are the causes? This injury is due to repeated motions of the wrist or forearm. The injury is typically associated with tennis playing, hence the name “tennis elbow.” However, any activity that involves repetitive twisting of the wrist for example, using a screwdriver can lead to this condition.
What are the treatments? Treatments include heat therapy, local injection of cortisone and numbing medication, physical therapy and pulsed ultrasound to break up scar tissue which promotes healing and increases blood flow to the afflicted area.
How is it diagnosed? The diagnosis is made based on signs and symptoms given that x-rays usually appears normal. There will often be pain or tenderness when the tendon is gently pressed near where it attaches to the upper arm bone, over the outside of the elbow.
What are the causes? This injury is due to repeated motions of the wrist or forearm. The injury is typically associated with tennis playing, hence the name “tennis elbow.” However, any activity that involves repetitive twisting of the wrist for example, using a screwdriver can lead to this condition.
What are the treatments? Treatments include heat therapy, local injection of cortisone and numbing medication, physical therapy and pulsed ultrasound to break up scar tissue which promotes healing and increases blood flow to the afflicted area.
Elbow Hyperextension
What is Elbow Hyperextension Injury? Elbow hyperextension injury occurs when the elbow is bent back the wrong way. This type of injury will occur more frequently in contact sports. The elbow pain is caused when the elbow is forced to bend the wrong way or hyperextend causing damage to the ligaments and structures of the elbow.
What are the causes?
What are the causes?
- A direct blow to the elbow backwards
- Swellness
- Stiffness
- Numberness
- Ice
- Anti-Inflammatory Medication
- Braces