Subject: RE: Ulna Collateral Ligament (UCL) Rest is good but not the end all. The ligament stabilizes your elbow so rest will let it calm down and feel better but once you perform an activity stressing the elbow it will be back. Hopefully it will heal without surgery. Until that fateful day comes you need to STRENGTHEN the muscles around the elbow, they will be your dynamic stability to comensate for lack of static stability. The wrist and finger flexors's origin reside over that area of your elbow so start wrist curls and gripping activities. Start light weights with high reps (the more weight you use the mor chance of getting a shift at the joint ) and progress. We treat a couple of these a year, most don't need surgery-it's just a sprain- but if you need surgery it won't effect you too much. Get it at the start of your off season. If you do go under the knife drop me an email.
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