Hi, everybody. Patrick Lerouge here, from Evolve Restorative Therapy.  You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com.  I help people who need to live an active life, eliminate pain for the long-term, and enhance their performance, folks.  So, this week’s weekly tip is all about elbow pain.
Elbow pain is all over the place and it happens a lot.  You might hear a lot of doctors talk about golfer’s elbow as well as tennis elbow.  I’m not going to be referring to where they reside. I’m going to show you one muscle tissue that actually plays a role in both of those.  And as you guessed it, it’s all about tricep.

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Tricep plays a major role in the hinge joint that we call the elbow. Pain in the outside of the elbow and inside the elbow can refer to the heads inside of the tricep. The tricep – three, tri, three — tricep has three heads. Two that are attached to the top part, one attached down low. What a lot of people don’t realize after they know that, is the tricep actually has two layers of muscle tissue. One in the upper head that has two heads at top and one that lies underneath that altogether. The two points that we’re going to focus on is all about the lower end of the tricep and underneath the tricep itself. You can see the point on the outside of your head of your tricep, so if you make a tricep muscle with your hands out straight, the head that reaches to the outside of your elbow will refer pain on the outside of your forearm by your elbow.
The next point that you’re going to focus on is right smack in the middle right above your elbow itself. That point refers pain to the inside of the elbow. It’s the layers that are underneath that tricep area. As you make this tricep muscle, it’s the areas that run close to the elbow. Not the hard bony part of elbow, right above that hardy bony part that you want to start focusing on, especially when we’re looking at the aspect of trigger point work. But, as you know in Restorative Therapy, we’re talking about doing something in a functional pattern, in a functional way, let’s say. You want it to get it to start learning how to move. So you want to get it to foam roll first. You want to foam roll those areas. Then you want to trigger point that area with a hand ball of some sort. Then you want to stretch the area. But you have to remember, everything needs to run in the pathway that it’s supposed to learn how to do.
If you keep that up, folks, your elbow pain will start to diminish more and more because now it’s actually not being twinged and tweaked as you move this hinge joint that’s only supposed to do this motion.  It’s only supposed to open and close, open and close. But once we start doing things in this manner, that’s when you start– in an outside manner and not a straight manner, let’s put it that way. It starts to grind at that elbow joint and then your tricep. Mainly for this videotape, your tricep is going to be the one that’s going to be giving you a lot of the headaches.
So clean those up and I guarantee you your elbow pain will start to diminish quicker than you know it. And folks, if you know somebody that needs to live an active life, share this, share this, share this. I appreciate it and I guarantee you they will appreciate it. If you guys are not on the list already, that’s not getting this in your inbox every Thursday, please sign up. I’ll be right there so you don’t have to search me out. Until next time, folks, bye.