Symptom

Elbow pain

Pain in your elbow can happen for a number of reasons, including sprains, pain from repetitive activities like golf or tennis, bursitis or arthritis.

  • Sprains resulting from over stretched tissues can be painful but usually do not cause permanent damage.
  • Pain from repetitive activity such as playing golf or tennis sometimes causes tennis elbow.
  • Bursitis is a build-up of fluid in the elbow joint. It can usually be treated at home by icing your elbow and taking over the counter pain relief such as ibuprofen.
  • Arthritis can cause swelling, pain and stiffness in your elbow joint.

Please use the information below to find out more about a specific symptom or treatment:

Symptoms

Treatments

Related conditions

Bursitis

Bursitis is when bursae, fluid filled sacs, become inflamed

Chronic pain

Pain that lasts for longer than three months is called chronic pain. The pain can be a result of illness, an injury or accident or have no apparent trigger. It may vary in intensity and be in any part of your body.

Golfer's Elbow (Medial Epicondylitis)

Golfer's Elbow or medial epicondylitis is caused by inflammation in the tendons of the forearm muscles.

Inflammatory arthritis

Inflammatory arthritis is an autoimmune disease. Your body’s normal defence system begin triggers an attack on the cells in the lining of your joints.

Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis. It is a degenerative disease and is often referred to as "wear and tear" of a joint as you get older.

Rheumatic Disorders

Rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis is a common form of inflammatory arthritis. Inflammatory arthritis is an autoimmune disease.

Tendonitis

The tissue that attaches muscles to a bone is called a tendon. Tendonitis is an inflammation of a tendon or the muscles around a tendon.

Tennis elbow

Tennis elbow is an injury caused by the repeated strain of gripping or twisting your wrist and arm.

Tenosynovitis

Tenosynovitis occurs when a tendon is injured or irritated or the sheath is injured causing restricted movement pain and swelling.

Ulnar nerve entrapment

Ulnar nerve entrapment is caused when the surrounding tunnel between the forearm muscles becomes too tight.

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