Elbow part 4 - Lateral elbow pain case studies & quiz with Nick Kendrick

Elbow part 4 - Lateral elbow pain case studies & quiz with Nick Kendrick

How can you rehab a manual labourer with lateral elbow pain back to full strength and return to work? What will you do differently with an office worker with elbow pain?

We’ve covered a lot of great info so far in this series on elbow pain. You’ve discovered how to diagnose your patient’s pain, the questions you need to ask, tests you can perform, and treatment progressions you can use.

In this online course with Australia Physiotherapy Association (APA) Titled Musculoskeletal & Sports Physio Nick Kendrick, you’ll compare two patients with lateral elbow (LE) pain - a manual labourer and an office worker.

Accurate diagnosis is the key to great results with your elbow pain, and you’ll discover clues within each patients history and assessment findings that help guide your diagnosis and treatment. You’ll explore the treatment of each LE pain patient, to develop your clinical reasoning, and know how to assess and treat patients with different diagnoses.

Improve your lateral elbow treatment results with this online course now.

Part 1

Manual labourer - History guiding your diagnosis

• Comparison of 2 cases with LE and how treatment differs based on their presentation
• Exploring the history of Patient A - a manual labourer
• Aggravating factors
• Ruling out differential diagnoses
• Subjective findings that guide your diagnosis
• Objective evaluation - what tests would you perform?

Part 2

Diagnosis & starting treatment

• Patient A’s objective assessment results for shoulder, elbow, C/Sp
• Prognostic indicators, and how this guides your expectations, treatment and advice to your patient
• What is the patients diagnosis & prognosis?
• Overall treatment plan for Patient A
• Advice & education you can use with your lateral elbow patients
• How and when manual therapy around the elbow can be included
• The motor cortex and reduced motor variability in people with lateral elbow pain
• Why the motor cortex decreases movement variability in response to pain, and why this is important

Part 3

Treatment progressions & return to work

• Exercise rehab and progressions you can use

• Occupational rehab - how can you alter work activities that affect treatment?

• How to incorporate return to work programs

• Introducing Patient B - a 29 year old office worker with lateral elbow pain

Part 4

Our office worker - a different diagnosis?

Patient B’s:

• Pain presentation
• Subjective history
• Diagnosis based on the history
• Objective examination
• Tests leading to diagnosis
• Final diagnosis
• Advice and education
• Manual therapy
• Exercise therapy & progressions
• Neurodynamics

Part 5

Treatment in the office & putting it all together

• Ergonomic assessment and advice
• Treatment outcomes
• When and how computer workers need to use their left hand for the computer mouse
• Take home messages for lateral elbow pain