Elbow & Forearm Pain
To use the upper limb, whether in sport or everyday activities demands a well functioning elbow. Common conditions we see, and the treatment we use are:

Tennis Elbow
Golfers Elbow

Tennis Elbow
Sports people and manual workers commonly complain of pain on the outside aspect of the elbow, commonly due to repetitive wrist extension activities. This condition is traditionally labelled ‘tennis elbow’. Pain is caused by the scarring, thickening and tightening of one of the wrist extensor tendons that attaches just below the outside aspect of the elbow joint.

Other potential causes of pain on the outer aspect of the elbow are synovitis, bursitis, or a trapped nerve. All of these can exist on their own or in conjunction with tennis elbow.

Golfers Elbow
A similar condition may also affect the inside aspect of the elbow and is commonly labelled as "golfers elbow". This condition is also of an overuse nature as with tennis elbow but affects the wrist flexor tendons.

Treatment
Manchester Physio uses a combination of treatments to resolve these frustrating and often debilitating injuries. These include massage, stretching of muscles, mobilisation of nerves, mobilisation and manipulation to the neck and upper spine, strapping and a detailed functional rehabilitation program that addresses strengthening, the correction of predisposing factors and a graduated return to activity.

Most patients with chronic elbow pain have some form of referred pain from the neck. Treatment for this referred pain is covered under Neck Pain.