Get Rid of Elbow Pain
So for this week, let's talk about elbow pain, which is all over the place and happens quite frequently.
You might hear many doctors talk about 'golfer's elbow' as well as 'tennis elbow'.
Today, I'm going to show you one muscle that actually plays a role in both of those conditions.
As you may have guessed, it involves the tricep.
The tricep plays a major role in the hinge joint we casually refer to as the elbow.
Pain that occurs on the outside of the elbow and inside the elbow, is forwarded to the heads inside of the tricep.
As its name suggests, the tricep contains three heads.
Two are attached to the top part of the tricep and one is attached at the bottom.
Many people don't realize that the tricep actually has two layers of muscle tissue.
One is located in the upper part of the tricep and one lies underneath the tricep altogether.
The two points that we're going to focus on is the lower end of the tricep and underneath the tricep itself.
So if you make a tricep muscle by sticking your arms out straight, the head that reaches to the outside of your elbow will refer pain on the outside of your forearm, in that same area.
Next, we are going to focus on the middle of the arm, right above the elbow itself, which refers pain to the inside of the elbow.
This corresponds to the layers that are underneath the upper tricep area.
The areas that run right above the hard, bony part of the elbow are what you want to start focusing on, especially when looking at aspects of trigger point work.
As you know, in restorative therapy, we're talking about doing something in a functional pattern, so you want to start teaching it how to move.
Initially, you want to foam roll all those areas, then you want to trigger point that area with a hand ball and stretch the area afterwards.
However, you should remember, everything needs to run in its own functional pathway.
If you continue this process, your elbow pain will start to diminish more because now it's actually not being twinged.
You can move the hinge joint that's only supposed to open and close in an upward manner.
By moving the hinge joint with a sideways motion, the grinding that accompanies this will start to create problems in your tricep area as well.
So clean those joints up and I guarantee you your elbow pain will start to diminish quicker than you know it.
You might hear many doctors talk about 'golfer's elbow' as well as 'tennis elbow'.
Today, I'm going to show you one muscle that actually plays a role in both of those conditions.
As you may have guessed, it involves the tricep.
The tricep plays a major role in the hinge joint we casually refer to as the elbow.
Pain that occurs on the outside of the elbow and inside the elbow, is forwarded to the heads inside of the tricep.
As its name suggests, the tricep contains three heads.
Two are attached to the top part of the tricep and one is attached at the bottom.
Many people don't realize that the tricep actually has two layers of muscle tissue.
One is located in the upper part of the tricep and one lies underneath the tricep altogether.
The two points that we're going to focus on is the lower end of the tricep and underneath the tricep itself.
So if you make a tricep muscle by sticking your arms out straight, the head that reaches to the outside of your elbow will refer pain on the outside of your forearm, in that same area.
Next, we are going to focus on the middle of the arm, right above the elbow itself, which refers pain to the inside of the elbow.
This corresponds to the layers that are underneath the upper tricep area.
The areas that run right above the hard, bony part of the elbow are what you want to start focusing on, especially when looking at aspects of trigger point work.
As you know, in restorative therapy, we're talking about doing something in a functional pattern, so you want to start teaching it how to move.
Initially, you want to foam roll all those areas, then you want to trigger point that area with a hand ball and stretch the area afterwards.
However, you should remember, everything needs to run in its own functional pathway.
If you continue this process, your elbow pain will start to diminish more because now it's actually not being twinged.
You can move the hinge joint that's only supposed to open and close in an upward manner.
By moving the hinge joint with a sideways motion, the grinding that accompanies this will start to create problems in your tricep area as well.
So clean those joints up and I guarantee you your elbow pain will start to diminish quicker than you know it.
