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If you have elbow pain, arm pain, restricted arm motion, trouble making a fist or flexing your wrist, you probably have elbow misalignment. This condition goes undetected in medical circles and is usually diagnosed as tendonitis. Medical treatments include physical therapy exercises and modalities, cortisone injections, anti-inflammatory and pain relieving medications and surgery. Because medical treatments do not correct the elbow joint misalignment, these elbow problems will not go away unless patients are treated by a skilled alternative practitioners, usually chiropractors.
Your elbow involves three joints. One which provides the flexion and extension hinging motion, and the other two which give you hand supination (palms facing up), and pronation, palms facing down. The most common elbow misaligmnet involves the supination/pronation joint, which gives you pain on the outside (lateral epicondyle) of your elbow. Fibromyalgia diagnostic pressure points are located on both lateral epicondyles, and pain from pressure on these points adds to the diagnostic test score for identifying Fibromyalgia.
Elbow misalignment may cause so much weakness you will not be able to pick up objects with your arm. Muscle spasm form this misaligment may severely affect your grip. Turning your palms up and down will be restricted, and the pain could prevent you from sleeping at night. I am telling you this to help you identify elbow misalignment if your have it and receive appropriate care so you may avoid these miserable consequneces.
At some time or another, I have treated all my high school and college football players and weigh lifters for this condition. Manual laborers often develope elbow mislignments. One of my patiets worked tearing shingles from a roof, and the forceful arm supination he used in this process severely misaligned his elbow. You may misalign your elbows doing house or yard work.
Simple elbow misalignments usually respond immediately to treatment, with complete restoration of motion, strength and comfort. Complex misalignments often contain psychosomatic elements that must be relieved for successful treatment. Read More.
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