Hi Ginger,

Perhaps in your clinical experience you have come across patients who have been incorrectly labelled "LE". I too believe in treating the C/S, mobilisation of the lower C/S, the nerves and fascia. All of that is part of the usual assessment of LE (it is posted around here somewhere...)

However, there is no doubt that there are patients who really have a mechanical problem at the elbow. A simple way to find out is to treat the C/S only and find that their pain and dysfunction has not changed. Also, it would seem that treating the C/S only is not revolutionary - if it really worked that well for LE (nearly 100%), then surely it would have been reported many times over and researched thoroughly.

I do believe however that many practitioners focus too much on the elbow and not on the whole patient.

What is your particular background? What treatment styles do you use? e.g. Maitland, Mulligan, Nordic, etc