Hi Sietzah,

Thank you you for taking the time to reply.
Well I fell from a horse and got kicked, I went straight A&E where the did an x Ray and told me it was bruised keep moving it and hurried me out the. Door. It wasn't until I persisted in visiting them, they sent me to physio which didn't work, they then ran some more tests and realised I had Hetertopic OSsificatiom - now when they sent me to a specialist he believes I had chipped my elbow and the chip had grown, trying to repair itself and bridged over my joint - causing the restricted movement and various other damage.

After my first surgery it had lots of scar tissue, around my elbow it was solid. Therefore, they took me back into surgery hoping they wouldn't need to fully operate, they broke all of the scar tissue and put in me in a right angle cast (may I add left in me in terrible pain and terribly bruised when the cast came off).
This cast came off a week later but has caused issues with straightening my arm, before they broke the scar tissue my arm was stuck straight as they casted it straighten for 4/5weeks.
I, not overly happy with how it looks, my surgeon keeps telling me I need to put in more effort to move it and my physio says both elbows measure the same size. However, when I hold them up for my mum to see and compare them the right one is clearly very swollen and still very bruised from where the surgeon broke the scar tissue.

I havent seen and Xrays/MRI's if they are doing them, they are doing them when I'm still asleep from the aesthetic. The joint has more than before the surgery, prior to surgery it was stuck at a right angle. Now it goes just a bit more than a right angle, but because of the pain I get when trying. To straighten it - it only extends to ... Maybe -30/40 degrees.
The pain I get is unbearable, it's like a tearing between my bicep muscle meeting the muscle in me lower arm and my brain automatically blocks me from letting my arm drop completely, even to get it a bit straighter I have to put a 0.5kg weight in my hand a force it to drop.

but none of this movement is free.. I can't wake up and stretch my arm freely, I have to do exercises to loosen it and because in the day I'm not using it to its full movement due to not being able to do much I then have to exercise it to loosen it whenever I want to use it. I havent actually been given any exercises for extension yet, I will see my ohysio for the first time after the scar tissue being broken on Thursday. But the exrercises do loosen the flexion.
I guess the elbow reacts ok to the exercises I have because it does loosen the arm, just nothing is a free movement still.
Pit bends a bit better if I start with my pal, facing the sky and bend it that way, rather than y palm facing side ways as if I'm holding a hammer.

Yeh, I'm devastated and becoming increasingly worried and anxious.