Elbow pain rarely starts with one bad moment. More often it builds: over a season of tennis, a few weeks of tiling, a grip that's been working harder than usual, or a desk setup that has your forearm switched on all day.
Where it hurts is the fastest clue you have. Pain on the outside of the elbow, pain on the inside, and pins and needles running into your fingers are three different problems with three different plans behind them.
Start with whichever of the three below sounds most like what you've been feeling.
Pain and tenderness on the outside of the elbow, usually worst when you grip something, lift a full kettle, or turn a doorhandle. It builds through repeated load rather than all at once, and you don't have to play tennis to get it.
Read moreThe same pattern of overuse, on the inside of the elbow instead. Common in golfers, and just as common in tradies and anyone who grips hard all day.
Read moreTingling or numbness running into your ring and little finger, from the "funny bone" nerve being compressed as it passes the elbow. You may have heard it called cubital tunnel syndrome instead.
Read moreCubital tunnel syndrome is compression of the ulnar nerve at the inside of your elbow. It's the second most common nerve compression in the arm, after carpal tunnel syndrome
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