burning sensation in elbow - possible diagnosis??

[Gupta1984]

hello

Ya, nerves from neck region go down to both arms.

You told that you feel numbness in your thumb and 3 fingers..its MEDIAN nerve involvement not the ulnar nerve..

ya,trapped nerve effect fingers too...

I would also suuggest to go to Physiotherapist for the diagnosis and acc take some precaution and necessary exercise ..

Take Care ...

[evosy1978]

Ok. thanks for the info. I will get to the physio when i get a minute,.

ANother question I have is would the effected nerve be the cause of my clicking right elbow. Or could this be something else?

Also what is actually causing the burning sensation on the outer side of my elbow. (is this also related to the nerve in question)

Thanks

[Gupta1984]

Hello

ya your both problems are due to nerve only ..Nerves are the tissue which carry messages, if they get affected person feel abnoraml sensation (burning,tingling, shooting pain etc) over the area which is supplied by that nerve....

[evosy1978]

thanks for the reply.

Ive got an appoinmtment to see doctor on thrursday.

Just out of interest, what could be done to help free this trapped nerve?
Also what is actually happening when the elbow clicks?

thanks for any info

[Gupta1984]

it needs some exercises, neural mobilization or might be other physiotherapeutic modalities ... depends on how much severe is the condition and what all symtoms are there, at what level nerve is being trapped and whats the cause of your problem .... elbow clicking might be due to nerve trapping only ...but m not sure ???

[evosy1978]

just an update to say the doctor said it is tennis elbow straight away. I wasnt happy with this diagnosis and i explained that i think its a neck trapped nerve and he said no deinately tennis elbow. I argued that it could not happen in the same place in BOTH elbows upon the same day so i just surely cant have tennis elbow in both arms especially when i dont really use the left arm for anything repetative, he failed to answer that and just proceeded to give me a prescription of anti-inflammatories for 3 weeks.

meanwhile he has got me on the list for the physio for my back problems so ill be talking to them about my elbows when that comes around.

[orthoped]

Well I do agree with you about the fact that your symptoms are not JUST related to Tennis elbow.

But you could have both trapped nerve and tennis elbow.

The episode you said about not being able to workout indicates that as the cause of your tennis elbow (definitely u must have worked out both your forearms).

Your numbness and tingling can be attributed to trapped nerve (actually its not trapped as such so dont worry about relieving it)
Trapped nerve or nerve root pain is generally due to irritation of the nerve by a bulging intervertebral disc. This is not something u need to worry unless it causes weakness of grip or loss of sensations, which indicate a progressive nerve damage and need immediate treatment.

So as of now go ahead with something for your tennis elbow, like physiotherapy, and not just anti-inflammatory medications.