Elbow Problems and Treatments

Common Elbow Problems

Elbow Bursitis

• Most Tennis Elbow Can Be Treated in About Five Minutes Per Day Without Surgery.
• Should You Be Concerned About the Lump on the Back of Your Elbow?

Elbow Fracture

• You’ve Broken Your Elbow. Here Are Some Things You Likely Have Not Been Told.

Elbow Replacement

• Elbow Replacements Are Not Like Other Joint Replacements. Here is Why.

Elbow Dislocation

• If You Have Had an Elbow Dislocation, You May Have to Fight Your Natural Instincts to Get Back to Normal.

Muscle Tear Around the Elbow

• A Sudden “Pop” in Your Elbow Should Not Be Ignored.
• When a Weak shoulder May Be a Sign of Deeper Problems
• When a Nerve Injury Might Be the Source of Your Shoulder Pain and Weakness

Non-Surgical Solutions to Elbow Injuries

• Treating Tennis Elbow in 5 Minutes a Day WITHOUT Surgery
• When Might Nerve Injury Be the Source of Your Shoulder Pain and Weakness?
• Fighting Your Natural Instincts After an Elbow Dislocation

Elbow Surgeries

Elbow surgeries can be loosely grouped into open and arthroscopic techniques. I regularly perform both arthroscopic and open elbow surgery techniques and will tailor your treatment plan based upon a thorough evaluation of your medical condition and discussion with you.

Arthroscopic Elbow Surgery

• Treatment of Elbow Arthritis, Removal of Loose Body
• Treatment of Stiff Elbow- Osteocapsulectomy
• Plica Removal

Open Elbow Surgery

• Tennis Elbow and Lateral Epicondylitis Surgery
• Golfer’s Elbow and Medial Epicondylitis Surgery
• Elbow Fracture Repair
• Surgery for Elbow Dislocation
• Lateral Collateral Ligament Repair
• Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction
• Treatment of Stiff Elbow- Osteocapsulectomy
• Total Elbow Replacement, Radial Head Replacement
• Biceps Tendon Repair, Triceps Tendon Repair
• Surgical Treatment of Ulnar Nerve Compression: Ulnar Nerve Decompression, Ulnar Nerve Transposition
• Surgical Treatment of Radial Nerve Compression, Radial Nerve Decompression

Blog posts about Elbow Problems & Treatments

One Exercise That Has Been Proven to Help Tennis Elbow Pain

There is a certain exercise that I assign all of my tennis elbow patients. You will find it in the video below. It’s the one exercise that has proven effective by medical science in treating tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis is the fancy way of saying it). The trick to the exercise is pace: SLOOOOOW on the way down and using…

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Frozen Shoulder: A Team Approach May Offer New Hope For Relief

Frozen shoulder is one of the most frustrating problems for patients and doctors alike. It’s painful, it comes out of nowhere, it causes sleepless nights and it often seems to drag on forever – 12 months is not uncommon. As doctors we like quick fixes as much as you do. So it’s hard to see a patient come back to…

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Obesity: Did You Know It Was Bad For Your Elbow?

A recent study from the Mayo Clinic examined the relationship between clinical outcome and obesity in elbow replacement patients. The Mayo Clinic has the most extensive experience with elbow replacement in the world. They studied a large group of patients and approximately one quarter of these patients met the definition of obesity. Overall obese patients had more complications, shorter average…

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Should You Wear A Sling After Shoulder Surgery?

A recent study in the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery compared outcomes of patients who had rotator cuff surgery based on how faithful they were with wearing their sling. They asked 50 patients undergoing rotator cuff repair to wear an abduction sling for the first (more…)

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“Do The Implants Have To Come Out?”

As a shoulder and elbow surgeon a lot of operations that I perform involve implanting hardware to help solve someone’s problem. Examples of hardware include plates and screws, joint replacement implants and arthroscopic anchors. When someone asks whether hardware needs to be removed in the future they usually are referring to plates and screws that help hold fractures together. (more…)

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