02/24/2026
Continuing our series of “What Brought Them In vs. What We Discovered”… Tennis Elbow Edition.
This patient came in with what he’d been told was tennis elbow (pain on the outside of the elbow, plus numbness and tingling into the forearm and hand). It had been going on for over a year. He was told to stretch it.
But during a simple orthopedic test… when we moved and compressed the neck, his symptoms shot straight into the forearm and hand.
Nothing to do with the elbow.
Why? Because the nerves that supply the arm (called the brachial plexus) come from the neck. If there’s irritation or pressure there, it can show up as “elbow pain.”
Same symptom.
Very different source.
Listen in as Dr. Zach explains how he discovered the true root cause.