Tennis 🎾 Elbow Pain & Injury. Diagnosis, Treatment & Management. #tenniselbow | Geoffrey Fong Osteopathic Services

MOVING VALGUS STRESS TEST FOR MEDIAL COLLATERAL LIGAMENT INSUFFICIENCY OF THE ELBOW If your patient is presenting after a trauma of the elbow and with medial elbow pain, one of the first things you want to test (after excluding a fracture) is the integrity of the ligaments. The moving valgus stress test is used to assess the medial collateral ligament at the elbow. According to a small study of O'Driscoll et al. (2017) the Moving Valgus Stress test has a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of

Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) Tear- this is how it looks like and how it happens (In the video: Toronto Blue Jays's pitcher, Tim Mayza tearing his UCL): EVERY pitcher generates enough force on each pitch to rupture the ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow. If a pitcher's elbows come higher than his wrists and shoulders, with the ball pointing down, he's demonstrating an "inverted W" -- a sign that his sequence is off and he's "fighting" his own body. "The No. 1 risk factor for UCL injuries i