Differential Diagnosis and Musculoskeletal Management of the Elbow – NYC, NY – Sep 2025

This is the only elbow course you’ll need to master the newest, most effective diagnostics and therapies available today.

Diagnose precisely, treat effectively

If you manage patients with elbow pain, you cannot miss this interactive learning opportunity! After one three-day course, you will return to your practice retooled with critical knowledge and experience including:

• Exact knowledge of elbow patho-anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics
• Ability to perform concise clinical exams
• Methodology to interpret clinical exams, to offer your clients precise diagnoses
• A solid framework for prescribing affliction-specific exercises
• The skills to combine soft tissue and specific articulation techniques for total treatment
• Mastery in the most successful techniques for treating tendons, ligaments, and peripheral nerves

Key questions, accurate answers

Clinicians need to ask the right questions in order to provide the best answers to clients who suffer from elbow pain. You will know the answer to these questions by the end of this course.

• What tests will you conduct to differentiate between a lateral epicondylitis and a radiohumeral arthropathy, or a medial epicondylitis and a humeroulnar joint arthropathy?
• How can you differentiate between the 5 different types of lateral epicondylitis?
• Which combination of pronation and supination mobilizations will get you the most range of motion?
• How do you diagnose an injury to the ulnar collateral ligament, and what are the known consequences?
• How do you determine whether your patient has a tendinopathy, a nerve entrapment or a radiohumeral arthropathy when all they tell you is they have lateral elbow pain?
• What soft tissue techniques will help your patients get better faster?
• How can you combine joint mobilizations of the proximal and distal radiohumeral joints to get the best results?
• How do you diagnose and treat the various types of elbow instability?

Target Group: PT, PTA, OT, OTA, AT

Educational Level: Advanced

Course Outline and Objectives

1. Select appropriate evaluation and treatment techniques through knowledge of patho-anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics for the most efficacious and expedient patient care outcomes.
2. Formulate a working clinical diagnosis based on the interpretation of the clinical examination.
3. Create effective treatment plans that incorporate accurate surface anatomy and tissue physiology of the elbow.
4. Assess the kinetic chain of the elbow, from shoulder to wrist, to determine the causal or perpetuating factors contributing to the patient’s condition.
5. Propose clinical reasoning strategies to solve case studies with complex patients’ pathologies with dysfunctions and comorbidities.
6. Generate the most effective techniques that combine soft tissue and joint specific techniques to affect total treatment of the elbow complex.
7. Construct pathology-specific exercises for the elbow and forearm, taking into consideration the psychosocial features of the patients, patients’ preferences, and the most current evidence.
8. Integrate the most appropriate evaluation and treatment strategies based on the chronicity and level of sensitization of the patients’ condition.

• Financial: The instructor(s) receive an honorarium for presenting this course.
• Non-financial: The instructor(s) have no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.
• Partial credit is not available. For online courses, passing module assessments and completing the course evaluation is required to earn continuing education credit. For live courses, attendance is confirmed by signing the attendance sheet at the course; ensure name and professional license number are accurate, and initial both morning and afternoon attendance.