Physio In Your Pocket: Medial Elbow Pain

Pain to the inside of your elbow can limit your ability to golf, climb, lift weights, swing kettlebells, and many other competitive and recreational activities. Knowing exactly how to heal this type of injury is not intuitive as the pain is located at your elbow but most of the rehab exercises involve your wrist and forearm. 

Here I talk about medial elbow pain, or medial epicondylitis, and which exercises start your rehabilitation. 

These are early stage rehab exercises for medial elbow pain, and I recommend you gauge the number of sets/reps you complete on how painful/ sensitive your injury is. There is a wide range of tolerance levels for this injury, and not everyone will be able to start with the same number of sets/reps. 

As always, when you are trying to build strength by adding load to an injury, start with a weight and rep scheme you know you can handle and slowly build from there.