Location of the pain
At golfer’s elbow will the overload of the musculature of the forearm and/or the elbow, to pain and soreness on the inside of the elbow. One has an overload, perhaps a inflammation, in the tendon to the wrist’s bending muscle, and this is attached to the elbows’ inside. Often will the pain /stråle/ down the arm towards the wrist and upward in the upper arm. Push on the /beinutspringet/ on the inside of the elbow will usually be painful.

Type of pain
The pain itself is usually in form of /murring/, ache and/or sharp, shotting pain on the inside of the elbow.

When will the pain appear?
The pain comes most often in connection of overload of the wrist. It can be a short intens overload or long-term repeated, similar movements. The pain can come some day after the overload.

Reduced function
The pain can result in reduced function in the arm, especially movements that involve movement in the wrist or fingers. Often can the movement alone be relative painless, but typically is that the pain in the elbow become more /kraftigere/ if one tries to do the same movement with resistance (isometric movement).

The symptoms
The symptoms that you have golfer’s elbow are:

- the pain on the inside of the  elbow become worse when the elbow is being bent and the hand is forced backwards
- one get pain when one try to bend the fingers of the wrist downwards

Tennis elbow
A golfer’s elbow is in many ways like a reversed tennis elbow. At tennis elbow the overload of the elbow will result in pain on the outside of the elbow. On has an overload, possible inflammation, in the tendon to the hands stretch muscles, and this is attached on the elbow’s outside.