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Golfer’s elbow is an injury to the muscles that flex your wrist and fingers. The location of the injury is generally the medial epicondyle where the muscles get attached, characterized by a bony bump on the inside of the elbow. Typically the golfer’s elbow sufferer will experience pain when performing gripping tasks or resisted wrist/finger flexion. Pain can also be present when the muscles are stretched. The area would be tender on palpation (directly over the bony epicondyle) and there may be a pain traveling in your wrist flexor muscles. It has been reported that in some cases patients will experience headaches, neck stiffness, and tenderness. Golfer’s elbow can lead to loss of pinch and grip strength as well as painful elbow movements. Golfer’s elbow is caused by damaged muscle tissue at the point it anchors to the arm bone at the elbow. In some cases such as chronic Golfer’s elbow, this can occur due to the soft tissues being in poor health, which are then easily injured leading to swelling and pain. Golfers’ elbow patients are generally between the ages of 35 and 50 and the ratio between males and females is almost equal.
Physiotherapy is not effective in preventing but also in long term management of Golfer’s Elbow. The aim of Physiotherapy is to achieve:
