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Sports Medicine
intermediate
X-Type

Medial Epicondylitis

Elbow Disorders

A 48-year-old avid golfer presents with 4 months of medial elbow pain that worsens with gripping and wrist flexion activities. The pain radiates to the forearm but not past the wrist. Examination reveals tenderness over the medial epicondyle, pain with resisted wrist flexion and forearm pronation, and mild ulnar nerve irritability at the cubital tunnel. Grip strength is reduced compared to the contralateral side. Regarding medial epicondylitis:

Mark each as TRUE or FALSE

A

Medial epicondylitis ("golfer's elbow") primarily affects the flexor-pronator muscle origin at the m...

B

Clinical presentation includes medial elbow pain that may radiate to the forearm, tenderness at or j...

C

Medial epicondylitis is more common than lateral epicondylitis; the pathology is acute inflammation;...

D

Risk factors include activities involving repetitive wrist flexion and forearm pronation (golf, thro...

E

Conservative treatment is successful in 85-90% of cases and includes activity modification, NSAIDs, ...

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Click T (True) or F (False) for each option