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What is tennis elbow?2 years 6 weeks ago420
What is the difference between carpal tunnel syndrome and cubital tunnel syndrome?1 year 7 weeks ago381
What is the difference between radial tunnel syndrome and tennis elbow?8 years 1 week ago569
What is the proper treatment for a dislocated elbow? A friend of mind had one and was told to take it easy and have physical therapy while my sister had to wear a brace for several weeks.1 year 10 weeks ago410
What is the radial tunnel?8 years 1 week ago450
What is the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow? What does it do?8 years 1 week ago1135
What type of doctor does repairs like for a torn tendon?2 years 1 week ago547
What's a supracondylar fracture? Mom just texted us that our little brother fell, broke his arm, and is having surgery for this.1 year 10 weeks ago372
What's the best treatment for tennis elbow? My pain is on the outside of my left elbow.4 years 52 weeks ago735
What's the best way to treat cubital tunnel syndrome? I've had this condition for two years and finally have time to deal with it.2 weeks 2 days ago27
What's the difference between tennis elbow and golfer's elbow? I don't play either game, and now I have golfer's elbow. How is this possible?1 year 31 weeks ago536
When considering the options to treat my elbow arthritis, my doctor mentioned a surgery called interposition arthroplasty. What is this surgery, and what does it involve?8 years 1 week ago440
When I have surgery next week for my chronic tennis elbow, what can I expect in the way of results?1 year 40 weeks ago371
When I straighten my arms, my elbows always look a little bit bent. They don't seem to straighten as much as other people's elbows. Is there a reason for this?7 years 36 weeks ago639
When I wake up in the morning, the inside of my elbow hurts. It doesn't bother me during the day but it's sure sore for the first hour or so. What could be causing this?1 year 1 week ago964
When I was a boy, my friend dislocated his shoulder and he put it back into place itself. When my son dislocated his elbow recently, the doctor had to put it back into place for him. Why can some joints go back by themselves and others can't?1 year 10 weeks ago252
When it comes to tennis elbow, do steroid injections become less helpful the more of them you have?8 years 1 week ago432
When my son, who is now 21, was in fourth grade, he fell off a snow hill and a child landed on top of him. That caused a fractured forearm and a severely dislocated elbow. After six weeks of casting and therapy, he was able to use his arm, but not long after, he was shaking his arm vigorously to remove some dirt from his hands and his elbow popped out again. He was casted for another three weeks. Years later, he fell - but not hard - and it dislocated again. Now that he's an adult, he says he has problems with the elbow from time to time. Can this ever be fixed?1 year 9 weeks ago290
Whenever I bend my elbow, I feel a snap on the inside edge of the elbow. Could this be related to the numbness I feel in my hand?8 years 1 week ago844
Whenever I lean on my elbow, like if I'm reading at my desk, I get a funny feeling in the funny bone area. My friend told me about cubital tunnel syndrome. Is that what I have?1 year 7 weeks ago429
Where is the olecranon bursa, and what does it do?8 years 1 week ago733
Which is better for chronic tennis elbow: a steroid injection or injection with botulinum toxin? The clinic I'm going to offers both. I don't know how to decide.4 years 35 weeks ago913
Why does it hurt so much when I hit my funny bone. It's not even a bone, is it?1 year 1 day ago700
Why is an elbow dislocation done under anesthetic?48 weeks 3 days ago226
Why would my doctor recommend fusion surgery to fix my problems with elbow arthritis?8 years 1 week ago422
Will my career as a baseball pitcher put me at risk for having elbow problems?8 years 1 week ago498
Working as a house framer requires that I swing a hammer most of the day. By the end of the shift, the pain on the inside bump of my elbow becomes too much. I can barely keep working. Won't my doctor just do surgery, so I can do my job?8 years 1 week ago488


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