What causes medial elbow pain?
Medial elbow pain is primarily caused by overuse activities that involve using your forearm flexor muscles that flex your wrist and hand. These muscles originate at the medial epicondyle and run down the front of your forearm into your hand. As these muscles are overused, they pull and can place added pressure on the medial epicondyle causing medial epicondylitis. Medial elbow pain is very common in golfers-as you swing and begin to follow through, your dominant hand and wrist tends to flex, causing stress on the medial epicondyle. Medial elbow pain is also very common in rock climbers due to the extensive gripping action.
