How To Fix Inner Elbow Pain While Throwing
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Golfer’s Elbow is actually a tendon injury to the inner portion of the elbow.

The tendons that attach to this section of the elbow flex the wrist, curl the fingers and turn the hand palm down.

If any of these motions hurt, then you are partially confirming a diagnosis.

Golfer’s that develop medial elbow pain while golfing get it on the trail arm. It is not impossible to develop on the lead arm, but it is less common.

It is a more common problem for amateur golfers than the pros.

Golfing, just like other rotational sports, can put you at high risk for overuse conditions.

Poor mechanics will accelerate the process.

When the flexor tendons are damaged from overuse and scar tissue formation, they are more easily reinjured.

In the trail arm elbow, impact with the ball or ground creates a quick yank on the tendon, which leads to irritation and further tearing.

How many swings do you take in a game of golf, including your warm up?

All of these impacts add up.

Golfer’s Elbow is often seen with golfers who prematurely release the wrists during the downswing.

This type of swing fault has a few names:

• Casting
• Scooping
• Early Release

As of 2009, TPI assessed that 55.9% of amateurs have this issue.

If you were to shoot a picture of the moment of impact, you’d see the hands would be behind the club head, appearing to “scoop.”

This swing fault can occur a few different ways. Some have simply learned this way, while others develop it while attempting to recorrect from other, larger swing faults.

Are you trying to “lift the ball?”

This would be one of the major learned mannerisms. Remember, the clubs are designed to do the job. Let the club work for you.

• Are you often over the top?
• Is your clubface often open at impact?

These could be other reasons for overusing the wrists.

When swinging with your hands cupped, you are actually forcing the swing with the trail hand. Over time, this repeated, forced wrist flexion catches up with you creating elbow pain in the inner portion of the trail arm elbow.

In sports medicine, this is the definition of an overuse condition.

Maybe your reason for scooping is not learned, but rather a physical compensation?

Sure, that is possible as well.

Upper body compensation like this is normally the result of the lower body not doing its job. All of the following are reasons for lack of lower body function.

• Poor core, pelvic, or hip strength/power/stabilization
• Poor hip or ankle range of motion
• Poor balance

If any of these strike a cord, you should seriously considering improving them or your elbow pain while golfing will continue as soon as you start again.

Elbow pain while golfing due to Medial Epicondylitis is not extremely hard to rehab.

• Active Release Technique
• Deep tissue massage
• Instrumentassisted soft tissue techniques
• Antiinflammatory injections
• Prolotherapy
• Chiropractic adjustments or mobilizations
• PRICE therapy

Here’s a video on an instrumentassisted technique for treating medial elbow pain while golfing.

We will need four things from you:

#1 Be willing to not golf (if need be)
#2 Utilize one or more of the treatments recommended in the following section
#3 Have your rehab goal be to make the muscle/tendon stronger
#4 Be willing to take a lesson

If you are able to do all four things, you will improve 90% of the time, usually within a month or so.

One of the exercises we recommend for elbow pain while golfing is an isometric one. This is an entrylevel exercise.