EPICONDILITIS MEDIAL PDF

What is medial epicondylitis? It develops where tendons in the forearm muscle connect to the bony part on the inside of the elbow. Tendons attach muscles to bones. Due to injury or irritation, they can become swollen and painful.

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Medial Epicondylitis is less common than tennis elbow, occurring at a ratio of Causes Repetitive trauma resulting in microtears is a causative factor. In doing curls, the elbow flexors are the prime movers, but the wrist flexors must also resist the force of gravity throughout the lift.

Tennis, racquetball, squash, and throwing often produce this condition. Pain may extends along the inner side of your forearm. Numbness or tingling. The pain may get worse when: Swing a golf club or racket Squeeze or pitch a ball Shake hands Pick up something with your palm down Flex your wrist toward your forearm Physical Examination Point tenderness over or just distal to the medial humeral epicondyle.

More localized tenderness compared to lateral epicondylitis. Pain with resisted wrist flexion. Medial soft tissue swelling. Tenderness over the muscles of volar forearm. Pain with passive stretching of wrist flexors. Rarely, more comprehensive imaging studies — such as magnetic resonance imagining MRI — are done.

A positive sign is indicated by pain over the medial epicondyle of humerus. A positive sign is indicated by a tingling sensation in the ulnar distribution of the forearm and hand distal to the point of compression of the nerve.

Acute stage management.