Sometimes the cause lies elsewhere than expected.<\/p>\n
That was my first thought after seeing a patient in the practice for the first time on June 15 with pain on the inside of both elbows. The complaints had arisen about a month earlier, after a lot of heavy lifting. <\/p>\n
With complaints such as tennis elbow or golfer’s elbow, the tendons around the elbow are often involved. Reduced drainage of fluid and tension from the arms also regularly play a role, for example at the level of the first rib. But with this patient, something else seemed to be going on. <\/p>\n
Although the pain was located around the elbows, the examination pointed more towards nerve-related complaints. In addition, tension was noted in the area between the shoulder blades and around nerves under the left collarbone. <\/p>\n
These types of tension patterns sometimes arise after an old fall or an accident. When I asked about this, the patient spoke about a nasty fall during his student days. After a night out, he was riding a borrowed bicycle over a dirt path, with his own broken bicycle over his shoulder. He suffered an unfortunate fall and likely made a significant twisting motion in his back and shoulders. <\/p>\n
It is possible that the body adapted to this injury at the time, without immediately causing complaints.<\/p>\n
Why then did the complaints emerge right now? Shortly before the onset of the elbow pain, the patient had fallen down the stairs during a move while carrying a microwave. That moment may have strained the body again and activated old tension patterns. <\/p>\n
This is precisely why, within osteopathy, we do not only look at the location of the pain, but at the functioning of the body as a whole. The cause of complaints is not always located where the symptoms are visible. <\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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