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Elbow: Compression, Impingement & Valgus Overload Injuries

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Now the second quadrant where we see findings

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is the lateral compartment.

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And here we get collision of the radial head

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and the capella.

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So we end up with osteochondral injuries

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or chondral injuries more often on the humeral side,

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but also involving the radial side as well.

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So here is a very famous professional baseball pitcher

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who has a chronic problem on the medial side with a large

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and feso fight that has developed.

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But I wanted to show you the typical region that we see

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osteochondral injuries involving the Capella.

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Typically it's the anter surface.

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And this is a lesion that we often use,

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often use the term osteo ance.

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Now the third quadrant is the postal medial aspect

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of the elbow joint.

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And here we deal with impingement

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and sheer uh, findings.

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And so let's, uh, look at that.

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This is called valgus extension overload syndrome.

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That occurs when a valgus moment is coupled with near

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terminal elbow extension.

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And it's that particular force that produces sheer,

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uh, forces as well.

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That can lead to a variety of abnormalities

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that often include bone proliferation, that proliferation

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maybe in the form of osteophytes, especially postal medially

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in the reon,

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but also in the adjacent region of the reon fossa

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of the humerus.

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Okay? And it said the vulnerable position is 30 degrees

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of elbow flexion during the deceleration phase of swelling.

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Let me show you, uh, a few examples of this.

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So here's one example.

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Most of these cases are in baseball pitchers

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and professional pitchers, showing you by diagram

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where I look for the abnormality.

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Here is an example of what it looks like.

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You can see the contact here in that region

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between a liquin on and humerus you.

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I wanna also point out this.

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Some people have emphasized the pointing

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of the medial aspect of the eon as a sign of impingement,

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but you gotta be a little careful with that particular sign

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because a certain degree of pointing is seen

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in normal people who do not have impingement.

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So it's that finding I don't think is as reliable.

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Here's another example, professional baseball pitcher.

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You can see the feminization of the humerus

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and the top two images,

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you can see the bone proliferation nearby, okay,

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near the E foa.

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And here what it looks like.

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That's a classic place that we will see impingement.

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I wanted to point out the ulnar nerve

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because some of these baseball pitchers will

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develop ulnar neuritis.

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It's not evident in this particular case.

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Now, there are other causes of impingement that occur.

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Posteriorly, oon

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and thiel fights in this case associated with fragmentation,

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can lead to thickening of the posterior capsule

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and abnormal tissue in that region that can lead

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to impingement.

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Now if we look at a few other abnormalities, you will see in

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baseball pitchers,

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and I've seen these more often in the immature skeleton than

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in ature skeleton.

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There is a particular, this one happened to be in an adult,

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but this is a trochlear osteochondral injury.

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It's not the Osborne cutter that we saw on the,

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on the other side, but this is involving

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the posterior aspect of the troia.

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And it's probably a sheer injury leading to cartilage loss

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and leading to irregularity of the subc chondral bone plate

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with nearby bone sclerosis.

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So you will see this sort of abnormality.

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Faculty

Stephen J Pomeranz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, ProScan Imaging. Founder, MRI Online

ProScan Imaging

Donald Resnick, MD

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiology

University of California, San Diego

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Musculoskeletal (MSK)

MRI

Elbow & Forearm