The area where you have pain can be from a lot of things. While peptides and GH will help for any soft tissue injury, it would be helpful to know exactly what is wrong with your arm. It indeed can be golfer's elbow or cubital tunnel syndrome, but there are other differential diagnoses you should consider. Based on your description it doesn't seem like it is for sure tendon pain. Or if it is tendon pain, it may be secondary to something else
Just like you have an MCL in your knee, there is an MCL in your elbow. Sometimes it is called a UCL. Some people will rupture this from falling. If you fell one time and hurt your MCL, you may have acquired permanent instability in your elbow and never realized it, and then this instability eventually led to chronic tendon pain.
You may have abnormal positioning or abnormal bony structure of your shoulder/arms, which may make you more susceptible to developing the elbow pain. You may have neither of these problems but your form when lifting is shit. If your tendon pain is secondary to something else, you may treat the tendon pain but it will just keep coming back until you fix the primary problem.
Then there's the chance its not even tendon pain at all. There is no tendon that stretches the entire length of your arm like shown on your pain diagram.
The ulnar nerve can get trapped in other places on that side of your arm besides just the cubital tunnel. It can get trapped in more than one place too. Nerve involvemnt would make sense for why your area of pain is so large
Muscles can refer pain to other places too. For example the supraspinatus, the most commonly torn rotator cuff tendon, is located in the shoulder but may refer pain to the lateral upper arm and forearm. I don't know off the top of my head what muscles may refer pain to your medial arm as shown. However there is an easy way to check. Just press hard on the area you are hurting, if it makes the pain worse than the pain is coming from the structure you are touching and not from somewhere else
You should be evaluated by an orthopedist, physiatrist, PCP who is good with ortho evaluations, sports medicine doc, or a physical therapist. Your current doc seems like he just brushed your concern off
Just like you have an MCL in your knee, there is an MCL in your elbow. Sometimes it is called a UCL. Some people will rupture this from falling. If you fell one time and hurt your MCL, you may have acquired permanent instability in your elbow and never realized it, and then this instability eventually led to chronic tendon pain.
You may have abnormal positioning or abnormal bony structure of your shoulder/arms, which may make you more susceptible to developing the elbow pain. You may have neither of these problems but your form when lifting is shit. If your tendon pain is secondary to something else, you may treat the tendon pain but it will just keep coming back until you fix the primary problem.
Then there's the chance its not even tendon pain at all. There is no tendon that stretches the entire length of your arm like shown on your pain diagram.
The ulnar nerve can get trapped in other places on that side of your arm besides just the cubital tunnel. It can get trapped in more than one place too. Nerve involvemnt would make sense for why your area of pain is so large
Muscles can refer pain to other places too. For example the supraspinatus, the most commonly torn rotator cuff tendon, is located in the shoulder but may refer pain to the lateral upper arm and forearm. I don't know off the top of my head what muscles may refer pain to your medial arm as shown. However there is an easy way to check. Just press hard on the area you are hurting, if it makes the pain worse than the pain is coming from the structure you are touching and not from somewhere else
You should be evaluated by an orthopedist, physiatrist, PCP who is good with ortho evaluations, sports medicine doc, or a physical therapist. Your current doc seems like he just brushed your concern off
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