When you feel pain in your elbow during push-ups, you have to choose the appropriate treatment depending on the cause. Specific causes include elbow ligament strains, tendon injuries, and muscle strains around the elbow. Treatment measures include physical therapy, medication and surgery.
1. Elbow joint ligament strain: Patients who do too many push-ups at one time may have ligament strain or injury. After the ligament is strained, it can be immobilized with plaster or brace, and assisted by hot compresses and physical therapy. You can also take non-steroidal analgesics such as Loxoprofen sodium for pain relief and anti-inflammatory, if the strain is serious or even torn, you need to carry out ligament repair surgery under arthroscopy.
2. Tendon injury: tendon injury refers to the patient due to excessive exercise and other reasons, the muscle in the bone attachment point strained phenomenon. It usually causes localized pain and swelling. Conservative treatment of tendon injury, physical therapy, magnetic therapy and other treatments can play a role in reducing pain. If the pain is severe, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen can be used to reduce inflammation and analgesia.
3. Muscle strain around the elbow joint: patients because of the prolonged use of the elbow muscles, muscle strain phenomenon may occur, specifically manifested in the elbow joint pain. Patients can apply cold compresses and pressure on the strained area to avoid serious swelling. After entering the recovery period, hot compresses and physical therapy to accelerate the recovery. You can also apply diclofenac diethylamide ointment on the strained area to reduce inflammation and analgesia. Relieve elbow pain.
It is recommended that patients with elbow pain during push-ups seek medical attention in a timely manner, and choose the appropriate treatment measures under the advice of the doctor according to their own examination results.