Golfer's Elbow Physiotherapy in Indirapuram

Why it develops

The muscles that bend your wrist and fingers and turn your palm down attach to the bony point on the inner elbow. Heavy gripping, repetitive wrist flexion and throwing overload that attachment. Golfers get it, but so do weightlifters, cricketers, plumbers and anyone who carries heavy bags with the palm facing down.

Symptoms

Inner elbow pain with gripping, lifting or making a fist. Tenderness over the bony point. Sometimes stiffness in the elbow. If you also feel tingling in the ring and little fingers, the ulnar nerve may be irritated as well, which changes how we treat it.

How it's treated

Like tennis elbow, the core is gradual tendon loading, this time for the wrist flexors and forearm rotators. We start with holds that don't provoke pain and progress to slow strength work and then faster, sport-specific movements.

We look at technique and equipment: grip size, how you carry loads, and for golfers or cricketers, whether swing or bowling mechanics are overloading the elbow. Shoulder and shoulder blade strength often need work too, since a weak shoulder pushes more stress down the arm.

When the ulnar nerve is involved, we add nerve gliding exercises and avoid positions that compress it, like leaning on the elbow or sleeping with it tightly bent.

Exercises often used for Golfer's Elbow

These are exercises our physiotherapists commonly include. Which ones suit you, how many and in what order depends on your assessment and stage of recovery.

All elbow, wrist and hand exercises

Frequently asked questions