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Arm pain, tingling, pins and needles, weakness and/or numbness can often occur as a result of injury to the neck due to irritation or compression of the nerves exiting the spine. There are also many possible local causes for arm and elbow pain, such as tennis elbow or olecranon bursitis.
Please read below for some common conditions that can cause Arm and Elbow pain, as well as exercise ideas. It is essential that these conditions are properly assessed and diagnosed by your Physiotherapist, Osteopath or Doctor so that you can ensure no further damage occurs.
This is very similar to tennis elbow except that it affects the other side of the elbow. The pathology and treatment are very similar, just directed at these tendons rather than the ones involved in tennis.
Read MoreThe complexity of the neck, the amount we use it for day-to-day activities, the degree of strain we put it through during training and sports, and the fact that we often use it inefficiently through poor posture and insufficiently strong deep stability muscles, all this can lead to many different...
Read MoreThis is an irritation of the tendon that runs over the bony bit of the elbow. The pain comes on slowly often after the aggravating activity at first. As it becomes more severe the pain then starts to be experienced during the aggravating activity. The aggravating activities include tennis, squash...
Read MoreWe often find that this is over diagnosed and that often the arm and hand pain (and weakness) is actually being caused by a tendinopathy that is fully treatable with physiotherapy. However, true carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by irritation of the median nerve that runs though the wrist joint...
Read MoreClicking or crunching in the shoulder can be caused by a number of things. Most people fear that the clicking is caused by bone hitting bone. However, thankfully nowadays this is rare. If you have this, it is likely that for many years you have been suffering severe pain and...
Read MoreClicking or crunching in the neck can be caused by a number of things. Most people fear that the clicking is caused by bone hitting bone. However, thankfully nowadays this is rare. If you have this it is likely that for many years you have been suffering severe pain and...
Read MoreA note on static stretching v dynamic stretching I bet you can't remember the last time you saw elite athletes doing a static stretches pitch-, track- or court side pre-performance. That is because research now shows that static stretching is not advisable before exercise. This is because it slows...
Read MorePlease click here to read how the shoulder works before reading the following. The lats are often tight and over active relative to the smaller shoulder muscles like the rotator cuff muscles.
Read MorePlease read how the neck works before reading the following. The effect of gravity on the head is that it moves down and forwards, away from the body. As a result of the head being lowered it then has to be rotated upwards in order to look straight forwards not...
Read MoreTo treat elbow problems properly the stability of the shoulder and neck often needs to be addressed, because if the shoulder is moving inefficiently more strain is exerted on the elbow. Treatment should therefore never focus purely on the elbow itself. However, the following exercise is a valuable exercise in...
Read MoreSitting posture at work, at home or in the car is a major cause or cure of pain in the back, shoulders, neck, arms and knees. Please scroll down to the bottom for specific advice on how to adjust your posture in the car to avoid or reduce pain. Sitting...
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