A small bone bump at the elbow may be caused by physiological factors such as thin body type and heredity, or it may be caused by pathologic factors such as malunion of fracture and degenerative disease of elbow joint.
1. Physiological factors: there is a small bone bulge at the elbow, which may be the bony bulge of the ulnar humerus or the lateral epicondyle of the humerus, which usually occurs in people with thin physique; in addition, it may be related to heredity, and the bulge caused by physiological factors usually does not have any symptom, and does not need to be treated in any way.
2. Deformity of fracture healing: if the patient’s ulna humerus or humerus epicondyle has been fractured in previous trauma, and the fracture is not treated in time or only fixed with local plaster, the above mentioned bone bump may also appear after the fracture has healed.
3. Degenerative lesions of the elbow joint: due to ageing, long-term repeated strain of the elbow joint will appear degenerative lesions, degenerative lesions of the elbow joint will lead to localized bone hyperplasia, hyperplasia may also be manifested in the elbow there is a small bone protrusion of the symptoms.
There may also be other reasons for a small bone bulge at the elbow, it is recommended to go to the hospital in a timely manner, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor to give targeted treatment or treatment.