- SlidesCubital Tunnel Syndrome (Ulnar Nerve)Numbness and tingling in the ring and little fingers with a medial elbow ache, worse with sustained elbow flexion and with leaning on the elbow, eased by extension or shaking the arm. Early it is intermittent and sensory and it is genuinely yours. Once there is weakness, wasting or constant numbness, it isn't.
- SlidesFracture / Septic Olecranon BursitisTwo emergencies sharing one swollen elbow. What separates a knock from an infection, why the two tempting treatments are the dangerous ones, and the threshold for sending them today.
- SlidesLateral Elbow Extensor Tendinopathy (Tennis Elbow)A grip-load tolerance problem at the common extensor origin, where the subjective does nearly all the work, the tests every student is taught have essentially never been measured, and 83-96% of people get better inside twelve months regardless of what anyone does to them.
- SlidesLittle Leaguer's Elbow (Medial Epicondyle Apophysitis)Gradual medial elbow pain in a skeletally immature thrower, worst through late cocking and acceleration, tracking pitching volume. It is traction overload at the medial epicondyle apophysis — the immature elbow's version of a ligament problem, and the reason it is treated as workload medicine rather than as a young athlete's UCL.
- SlidesMedial Elbow Flexor Tendinopathy (Golfer's Elbow)Medial elbow pain on gripping and resisted pronation, in a golfer, climber or manual worker. Straightforward to treat, and routinely mislabelled in both directions.
- SlidesOlecranon BursitisA dramatic swelling over the point of the elbow that hurts far less than it looks. Usually benign — and the two tempting treatments are the two that cause the trouble.
- SlidesPronator Teres Syndrome (Median Nerve)Median-distribution symptoms where the dominant pain and tenderness sit in the proximal volar forearm rather than the wrist, worse with gripping and repetitive pronation, and without the nocturnal waking that characterises carpal tunnel syndrome. It is under-recognised, it overlaps with carpal tunnel, and — the part that changes your reasoning — the nerve conduction study may be normal.
- SlidesRadial Tunnel Syndrome / PIN EntrapmentDeep proximal forearm pain rather than epicondyle pain, in someone already treated for tennis elbow. A contested diagnosis, handled here better than most textbooks manage.
- SlidesUlnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) InjuryMedial elbow pain in late cocking, sometimes with a pop. An elbow diagnosis that is almost never an elbow problem — and what that means for where you look.
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