Welcome back to Get FitGy Guy. This is your host, Kevin Dunn.

Now, I have noticed that a few questions or topics repeatedly show up in my inbox.

And one of these is elbow pain. So bearing in mind that I'm a coach and also in a crisis of personal identity, a philosophy student,

and not a medical professional, and that even if I were an email diagnosis would be very difficult,

let's talk about this subject. What could this elbow pain be? And well, the most common things are

either golfer's elbow or tennis elbow. What are the differences between these? Golfers elbow

and tennis elbow are very common conditions that cause pain around your elbow. Despite their names, the injuries are not

confined only to golfers and tennis players and can affect anyone who performs repetitive arm, elbow

or wrist movements. Usually, they are both overuse injuries. So we might see them in beginners,

who are not yet used to the volume of that motion in a new sport they're trying out. So we might see them in beginners who are not yet used to the volume of that motion

in a new sport they're trying out, but we also see it in seasoned athletes who might be

practicing so much that their volume is exceeding the maximum recoverable dose. Understanding the

differences between these two conditions, their causey symptoms, and treatments can help you to recover.

So a bit of definition.

Golfers elbow is medically known as medial epicondylitis, and that's for all of you listeners that complain when I use Latin, thinking I'm doing it to make myself sound more intelligent.

I'm not. I'm just doing it because that's what it's called. And medial epicondylitis is characterized

by pain and inflammation on the inner side of the elbow. That is the closest side to your body

when your arm is hanging naturally. It occurs where the tendons

of the forearm muscles are attaching to the bony area, which is called the medial epicondyle,

of the elbow. This condition primarily affects the tendons involved in flexing the wrist and fingers. Flexing your

fingers would be when you close your hand to make a fist. Golfers elbows normally caused by

overuse, as I said, too much volume or repetitive stress, particularly activities that involve

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