Medial Elbow Pain Symptoms

Featuring Johnny Yiu, BHK, MPT

Duration: 1 minute, 24 seconds

The common signs and symptoms of medial elbow pain are a little bit of bruising and swelling.

There may be point tenderness along the elbow, and they may have pain when they're flexing their wrist like so or also pronating their wrist a little bit. Throwing obviously is sore and painful, and there is discomfort with overhead movements.

The medial elbow pain can be coming from a strain of your muscles, like the flexor tendons that have been talked about, or also the ligament, which is called your ulnar collateral ligament or medial collateral ligament.

For ligament strains, you would have to rest and strengthen the muscles around there. For muscle strains, it is very important to strengthen appropriately when able. Some of the treatments that may occur for medial elbow pain, depends on whether it's a ligament strain or a muscle strain.

If it's a ligament strain, stabilizing that area is very important, but if it's a muscle strain, then you have to strengthen when able. If people have questions about signs and symptoms of their medial elbow pain, I would recommend they contact their local physiotherapist or sport med doctor.

Presenter: Mr. Johnny Yiu, Physiotherapist, Vancouver, BC

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