Case history
Case history #1
A 45-year-old lawyer presents 1 week after participating in a tennis tournament, with lateral elbow and dorsal forearm pain in his dominant arm. He recalls playing in four matches over the weekend preceding his symptoms. He notes that typing and computer work were uncomfortable the following week. He has night-time aching, but no neurologic complaints. He does not recall any specific injury and had no prior history of injury or similar pain.
Case history #2
A 28-year-old woman presents with a complaint of medial elbow pain for 4 days. She works as an office manager doing filing and clerical work. She does not recall an inciting event preceding her pain, nor can she recall similar symptoms previously. She does not use an ergonomically correct keyboard at work or home. Her pain is burning and aching in quality, along the volar, medial aspect of her proximal forearm, just distal to the medial epicondyle.
Other presentations
If the presentation is not entirely typical, it is important to rule out cubital tunnel radiculopathy or other neurogenic pain.
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