Golfer's Elbow
Golfer’s elbow
Golfer’s elbow is an injury to the muscles that flex your wrist and fingers. The site of injury is typically the medial epicondyle, a bony bump on the inside of the elbow where these muscles attach.
Golfer’s elbow is an injury to the muscles that flex your wrist and fingers. The site of injury is typically the medial epicondyle, a bony bump on the inside of the elbow where these muscles attach.
Symptoms
- Pain when performing gripping tasks or resisted wrist/finger flexion.
- Pain can also be present when the muscles are stretched.
- There will be tenderness directly over the bony epicondyle,
- There may be trigger points in the wrist flexor muscles.
- Neck stiffness and tenderness, as well as signs of median nerve irritation. Most elbow movements will be pain-free. Gripping is painful.
Causes
- Golfer’s elbow is caused by damaged muscle tissue at the point it anchors to the arm bone at the elbow.
- It occurs when more force is applied to an area than the normal healthy tissues can handle.
- Golfer’s Elbow can occur due to the soft tissues being in poor health, which are easily injured.
- Inflammation follows the injury, which leads to swelling and elbow pain.
Spine and joint care aims to achieve
- Reduction of elbow pain.
- Facilitation of tissue repair.
- Restoration of a normal joint range of motion and function.
- Restoration of normal muscle length, strength and movement patterns.
- Normalisation of your upper limb neurodynamics.
- Normalisation of cervical joint function.
Treatment
Spine and joint care has very effective way of curing for Golfer’s elbow by Osteopathy ,Chiropractice and Marma treatments.