The Lifters Guide to Fixing Elbow Pain

Elbow injuries are often difficult to diagnose and treat. Many educated clinicians find that elbow injuries can be confusing and the treatment can be somewhat complicated. If you look at the research, elbow pain almost always ranks as one of the top injured joints amongst strength athletes like weightlifters and powerlifters. However, despite being so common, you can scour the internet and research journals for days and fail to find a consensus amongst medical and rehab professionals on the best approach to its management and treatment.

In today's video I'm going to show you a few steps I take when evaluating elbow pain and things you can do to help fix this injury.

Key points:
1) Don't look ONLY at the site of symptoms: the WHY behind elbow pain often lies at the wrist and/or shoulder complex.
2) Banded joint mobilizations can be helpful especially for lateral elbow pain.
3) Elbow position during squats can have a dramatic effect on the amount of load placed on the elbow.

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[danielalbano]

I can’t even describe how much your videos help with problems I have, you’re one of the best and most educational fitness pages on YouTube for sure!

[Myles]

The banded stretch for lateral elbow pain has brought me such relief! Awesome content!

[TakoOcto]

I've been in pain for 3 months now, these are starting to make me feel better, thanks bro

[johnnyfairplay]

Thank you! Exactly what my issue is right now! This video is extremely helpful!

[arentyou]

Always awesome, I tell everyone about your videos, especially if they’re looking to understand fitness health.

[DamianBrown]

Thanks! Stuck doing lighter front squats on lockdown but this will come in handy once I'm back to heavy back squats once it's safe to go back to the gym / I get stands

[smitty]

I wanted to comment to say that the stretch method for tennis elbow at the 8min mark worked IMMEDIATLY for me. My elbow would be bothersome even picking up a bottle of water if done in a certain way. After doing this I had 90-95% reduction in pain/irritation! Thanks to SU for the tip! This will be a pre-workout stretch for me since I'm in a Starting Strength 3x5 routine where squats/deadlifts/rows are very common motion and gripping is involved.

[garretcuzzocreo]

Holy moley this guy is great fixed my pain immediately

[xkidrauhlforever]

amazing. thank you so much for sharing!

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[ryangoligher]

I've been looking for an answer to this pain for the past 6 months. Thank you so much! #SquatUclub

[davidhughes]

Brilliant as always. Thank you from the UK

[a_woman_who_loves_to_lift]

Even when I don't think a Squat University video or topic will apply to me, I still view it and find that it does, and I always learn something that improves my lifting. I'm really grateful, Dr. Horschig. Thank you for this session, and please keep putting out your content!

[dlf]

So I'm not even a minute in and I've learned things I've never even heard of. Thanks for this!

wow this video is amazing! it all add up now and all make perfect sense! I have been having trouble with all of them on my dominant side elbow, wrist, lats and of course: my technique going under the par and over extending my wrist to the point I can't perform more than few squats at a time because my elbow and whole hand will turn basically numb with tingling pain. I went before to a Chiropractor and made some x-rays to make sure that I don't have a pinched nerve or something and it was very useful because I corrected a slight forward/upwards rotated shoulder and it helped with pain. I did deep tissue massage and remember that may lats were way too stiff especially the same side mentioned. Finally as a goalkeeper of my small football team I remember now the many times I got my right wrist injured and kept getting hits only to ice it after the game!
It all make sense now and it's amazing how each part affects the other!

I will try all the instructions in this video and definitely follow up with the great content.

Many thanks Dr 🙏🏻

[petruccilewis]

Gosh, I've been trying some low bar squats and having some elbow pain, perfect timing! Thanks

[pedrosrzrtz]

Thank u so much, I from Spain, and I hope my pain Dissapier with this video

[matiaspenfold]

Doctor, i see you in Argentina, thanks for yours videos 👍👍👍

[pedrocerda]

My right elbow was injured during a wrestling match last year and while it doesn’t impact me on the day to day, if I press on the area it’s tender and I know I shouldn’t ignore it. Today I decided to try and be proactive in fixing it, I will try and follow up