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Key word: Workout! Answer: Not indicated!!!Let me explain. Cubital tunnel is compression of the ulnar nerve on the inside aspect of your elbow ( your funny bone). It is less common as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but still prevalent!Nerves are the most excitable tissue in the body! Easily insulted; slow on forgiveness! I am a Certified Hand Therapist, who has bilateral Cubital Tunnel syndrome! Yes, a hypocrite to my profession!Cubital Tunnel Syndrome manifests itself as pain in the inside aspect of the elbow, tingling in the ring and/or little finger, and weakness of the hand in certain muscles. You can have all or some of these symptoms . It can have many causes. Diabetics are a little more prone to nerve compression disorders. Leaning on the elbow and keeping it bent 90 degrees or more are the primary causes. Trauma, golfers elbow, excessive gripping with repetitive elbow flexion can contribute to itI can not treat evaluate or treat you over Quora, but I can tell you what I do for my patients! First, you need to make sure you have an accurate evaluation. The above symptoms can also be coming from the neck. Ask you Physician/PCP for an Rx for Hand Therapy.My treatment plan for most Cubital Tunnel patients:Education: no leaning on elbows or keeping them bent 90 degrees or more! Avoid sustained gripping, pinching and positions. The body likes gentle movement, not repetitive motion.Posture evaluation and trainingPossible wrist control splint or elbow extension support at night. A lot of people sleep with their elbows bent. You do not have to be completely straight! You can try training yourself to do this, or consider a soft or hard elbow extension support/ brace. You Therapist will help you. No band effect around the arm!! Try to avoid working with your sleeves pushed up!Ergonomic trainingGentle modified nerve glide exercises- too difficult to explain here.Careful of strengthening! The tendons, that control the grip of your fingers, start from the inside part of the elbow! This is somewhat close to the ulnar nerve . I am very careful with strengthening exercises for this problem.Teach them precautions for CTS

I had a guy come in with a broken fibula, who had been walking around on it without realizing it. He said it really only bothered him when he ran through deep snow. The fibula is a non-weight bearing leg bone, and helps stabilize muscle and ligaments that are attached. Like a car strut, but not the axle. Should see what the x-ray shows. Old fractures can heal within 6 weeks, but if the joint between the lower leg and the foot is crowded by a different alignment after the bones knit incorrectly, you're going to have a lifetime arthritis problem. So, that's one explanation. Definitely get an x-ray.Gout happens in ankles. It can be triggered by a beer binge, red meats and shellfish, or all things being equal, a cold night. The fluid in the joint may be keeping the gout crystals saturated in solution, but just like water changes to ice below thirty two degrees Fahrenheit, uric acid crystals (monosodium urate) precipitate out of solution at colder temperatures. This is also why peripheral joints (knees, ankles, toes, elbows, wrists, fingers) are the most commonly affected by gout. They are further away from the core of the body where the heart’s fresh recirculation of the blood is a way to keep those areas warmer. That can be diagnosed with a blood test, an experienced physical examiner, or (gasp!) fluid aspirated from the joint with a needle and examined on the microscope. Bigger joints like knee and elbows, I wouldn't hesitate to have my patient allow it. They won't feel much pain, and the certainty of the diagnosis is worth it. The blood test can be inaccurate in the midst of a gout attack. Many doctors fail to appreciate this and dismiss gout when the uric acid levels are normal. This is an example of superior vs average internal medical knowledge. I always teach my students and residents to acquire the skills and knowledge that set average and superior apart from each other. At lectures I've prepared for teaching this topic, the ramifications of gout are much more complicated than what most will ever appreciate. Why did it show up? Will the patient take the medicine the way you prescribe it? Are the costs, alternative, diet recommendations, folk remedies, complications, progressive damage to joints, expected diseases that go together with gout, etc…are all these aspects part of your doctor's approach? Or does he say, “Gout. NSAID Rx. Next patient, please. Certainly another case of industrial disease.” (LOL: Dire Straits)Then there is the ankle pain that is due to a recurring sprain. A good ankle sprain is a partial tear of the strap ligaments that stabilize the ankle. When these are damaged, it becomes a ‘trick ankle’ (tern also used to describe a ‘trick knee’ or ‘trick back’). Normal activities may lead to reinjury, like running across a field in athletics, or skipping rope at the gym. The problem isn't permanent, but just needs to be nursed carefully before full athletic or heavy exertion at work is attempted. Splints and braces are used, in the interim.Maybe, having read some of my interpretations, you'll have some more context you can add. If so, I may be able to further assist, if these discussions don't fit your circumstances.

Usually they do, but the answer to that question varies with the patient, general state of health, whether you are eating nutritious foods or standard american fast food & highly processed. The problem with fractured ribs is you can’t cast or splint, or otherwise interfere with the lungs being able to inflate when you inhale, which usually makes it slower to heal because breathing causes movement in the rib cage.. With that said there are cases where fractured bones to not knit or reunite.Don’t know where you live but the cannabis sativa CBD oil is now legal in all 50 states and the THC is legal in some states. Both should have never been made illegal or classified as a drug, much less a Schedule 1 which is defined as having no medicinal purpose except pain relief and making both of them legal would end the so called epidemic of oxycodone or opioid accidental over dose deaths. I have been taking the CBD oil, clinical dosage for 3 months and have found nothing but good results, and one of those good results is decrease of pain on on the second day. This CBD oil is now being used to treat 43 different health problems and the CDC now holds a patent on 3 different patents on compounds in both of these plants - one is to treat cancer, another to treat neurogenic problems like Alzheimer’s disease, autism, Parkinson’s disease, etc, and the last one is for autoimmune problems. Type “cannabinoid receptor pathways in the body” into your search window and read it. You will discover these two plants that have been used for medicine since OT Biblical days and they truly are a case of the Lord gave and the government took away when it was moved onto schedule 1 drug list to get it beyond our reach. These receptors are pathways from head to toe with the largest concentration in the brain. Obviously our Creator designed our bodies to use these two plants as a fantastic effective and safe medicine and food. IMHO, one should avoid any CBD or THC product made by big pharma which already has one or two preparations on the market. Saw one mother with a child with difficult to control seizures, who said she can use her daughter’s CBD by vapor at home, but has to purchase the big pharma to use outside her home. Her evaluation was their version did not work as well and it cost about 3 times as much as the natural product that had full spectrum and all the fail safes in the plant still in it. I prefer God’s natural medicine when I can get it because the herbal remedies are safer. I am telling you about this because in researching it, found the data base said some chemicals or complexes in this plant promotes bone growth and since it has no known side effect and lots of good effects, it can’t hurt to try it. I started with Hemp-Rx clinical strength which you can find on line. Think their product is made from the plants blossoms and leaves. Found great improvement in several areas of the body. Decrease of pain, improvement in balance or equilibrium, drastic decrease in cramps of lower legs. ankles and feet that often woke me up, sleeping better, decrease in allergy problems and have been able to stop all allergy pills so far after beginning the CBD. I just got my 4 ounces of CBD tinture from Bluegrass CBD oil a few days ago as it is made strictly from the bloom and I wanted to see if it worked any better than Hemp-Rx. To date will have to say they appear to be about the same. If you know what poke salet and its poke berries are, it is one of the best medicines that is found all over our American nation. Have been gathering my own and taking them for probably 50+ years. Haven’t been able to verify my suspicion that Vioxx that some have told me was the best arthritis medicine they ever took, was made from a chemical found in the poke berries . Big pharma has a habit of isolating one or two chemicals from a plant that has the qualities they want to treat something with, make a synthetic version of it that they can patent, and put it on the market, which removes all the other chemicals in the natural plant, including the fail safes - and it becomes a killer drug with lots of unwanted side effects - like the strokes and heart attacks caused by Vioxx and either killed or made invalids of thousands to millions before it was pulled off the market. Learn the medicinal uses of all those weeds people keep trying to kill in their yards, instead learn how to use them for food and medicine. Research on them is as close as your search window on the computer, which is why I love the computer. You would be surprised at the questions I type into my search windows!