Elbow History

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Introduction

Acute or chronic

Trauma (direct / indirect), repetitive overload, or spontaneous onset.

Are there red flags? Was the onset insidious?

Does it radiate along compartment to the wrist.

Is it deep, dull, aching. Is there dysaethesia. Is it sharp or shooting.

Is it related to activity.

Does it come on during the day or night.

Is it related to gripping / pinching, flexion of the elbow, supination, pronation. Is there pain and stiffness after rest. Is there locking.

Do certain positions or activities relieve it.

Is there fever, weight loss, malaise.

Lateral Elbow Tendinopathy
Referred pain (Cervical spine, Upper thoracic spine, Myofascial)
Synovitis of the radiohumeral joint
Radiohumeral bursitis
Radial Head Fractures
Radial Head Dislocation
Capitellar Osteochondritis Dissecans (Capitellum, Radius in adolescents)
Capitellar Osteochondrosis
Lateral Condyle Fracture
Capitellum Fracture
Lateral Collateral Ligament Complex Injury
Radial Head Subluxation (Nursemaid Elbow)
Radiocapitellar Osteoarthrosis
Bone Neoplasm
Soft Tissue Neoplasm
Posterolateral Rotary Instability
Posterior Interosseous Nerve Entrapment or Radial Neuropathy at the Spiral Groove
Posterolateral Plica Syndrome

Medial Elbow Tendinopathy
Medial collateral ligament injury (acute and chronic)
Ulnar neuritis
Avulsion fracture of the medial epicondyle (children and adolescents)
Apophysitis (children and adolescents)
Referred pain (Cervical Radicular Pain, somatic referred myofascial pain)
Myofascial pain
Ulnar Neuropathy
Little Leaguer's Elbow
Triceps Tendinopathy and rupture
Fractures (Olecranon Fracture, Pediatric Medial Epicondyle Avulsion, Coronoid Process Fracture, Medial Condyle Fracture)
Medial epitrochlear lymphadenopathy (e.g. from cat-scratch disease)
Anconeus Epitrochlearis
Cyst, Mass, Foreign Body