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What is Elbow Pain?
Elbow pain can really slow you down and stop you from doing the things you enjoy..
The most common types of elbow pain can be caused by arthritis, or overuse injuries including tennis elbow and golfer’s elbow.
And you don’t have to be a tennis or golf player to get one of these sore elbows!
Overuse or repeated use on the tendons near your elbow can be the cause of elbow pain – particularly where one of your tendons attach to bone near your elbow joint.
If overload occurs, it can cause pain around the elbow, particularly when using the wrist and hand. Depending on the location, full recovery can take months.
Elbow pain usually has symptoms like these:
- Dull ache when resting or at night
- Pain when making a fist (golfer’s elbow)
- Pain when opening your fingers (tennis elbow)
- Soreness around the elbow joint
- Weak grip
- Pain and weakness when trying to hold things, especially when your arm is stretched out.
Other symptoms can include clicking noises or grating feelings inside your joints, and/or loss of movement in a joint.
When you book an appointment with a physiotherapist from The Physio Co to get help with your Elbow Pain, the first appointment will involve your physiotherapist asking questions about you, your general health, your future goals and the symptoms of your arthritis.
They will also likely ask you to show them how you move parts of your body under their instruction so they can properly assess and understand the problem.
It’s likely the physiotherapist will also gently feel and move the injured part of your body too.
They will also likely ask you to show them how you move parts of your body under their instruction so they can properly assess and understand the problem.
It’s likely the physiotherapist will also gently feel and move the injured part of your body too.
After the first 1-2 appointments, once you and your physiotherapist have discussed the likely cause of the problem, the treatment needed and the likely time it will take to improve, you will receive a 1-page plan of what will happen next.
That plan will be a short, tailored and personal plan for you describing the recommended treatment and next steps. Â
Your plan will likely involve 4-12 weeks of treatment before it is reviewed, reassessed and considered if a new plan or updated plan is needed.
It’s super-important that you read, understand and follow your plan.  If you have any questions, please ask your physiotherapist as soon as you can
The treatment you physio recommends will depend on what is affected and any pain.
There is no way of knowing exactly which treatment will work best for you. You will likely need to trial a few different treatments before finding the one that works for you.
When the plan is complete, we will review it together and decide what comes next.