After falling hard on my straight arm, I can't straighten the elbow
by Randy
During a wrestling match, I was lifted up and fell hard on the mat, with most of the other guy's weight on me. I landed most of the weight on my left arm, which was locked out straight. I could feel pain right away, and knew something was wrong with my arm, mainly in my elbow.
My inner elbow was swollen for about 2 weeks, and I havent been able to straighten it out or bend it all the way since the day of the injury. My range of motion with my elbow has grown to being fine all the way up to entirely straight and bent as far as it goes. Anywhere in this range of motion, my elbow feels fine; I have held 50 pounds with it, and had no problem, as long as I didnt try to straighten my arm or bend it to where my bicep was touching my forearm.
I got an X-ray, and the doctor said the bone was fine, just the tissue and stuff around it was hurt, and would heal soon. But, I havent really been seeing any improvement lately, 4 or 5 weeks after the injury.
Before my injury, I was doing intense workouts, both heavy weights and lots of calisthenics, and I noticed an occasional small ache in my left elbow, usually when I was doing homework at my desk, making me worried I was getting tennis elbow or something, though it never got bad. I don't know if that has anything to do with my injury now, but maybe it contributed to my lasting injury.
Anyways, do you have any way to get my arm to be able to straighten out and bend all the way? As I said, I am perfectly fine moving weights as long as I keep it within my range of motion with my elbow. Thanks!
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Joshua Answers:Hi Randy.
I'm unclear, it looks like you said both that you do and don't have full range of motion with the elbow now.
Tendon injury is FAR different from joint injury.
Read this
thread -
Help Identifying Inner Elbow Pain Can't Straighten Arm - it talks mostly about the soft tissue side of things, and will be educational.
While you may have some
Tendonitis dynamic at play due to being athletic etc, the description of the impact to the straight elbow is good information.
See:
What Is TendonitisI would adjust the doctor's words to say 'the tissue -in- it' are hurt. Inside the joint. The tissue around the joint is unhappy too, of course, but that's all part of the
Pain Causing Dynamic.
If you have bruised/inflamed the joint/joint lining of the elbow, that's a very specific animal. Quick results aren't to be expected, though you can do some specific things to speed the recovery up. Bone bruises are painful and slow to go away, even though there's not necessarily any 'injury' per see. They're just slow and painful.
Please clarify for me:
1. what is your current range of motion with the elbow.
2. Pain anywhere in the range?
3. Pain anywhere in the range with extra weight added.
4. Can you do a full push up? If not, what exactly is the experience consist of?
5. You were having elbow pain before the event. More details of how, where exactly, etc.
6. You said homework. Are you high school, college, or old man back to school and sports?
7. The more details, the better.
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