Golfer's elbow treatment for the inner elbow pain that weakens your grip.

Yes. Book it online and your first session is The Cornerstone. If the assessment shows the programme is not right for you, we refund everything except the assessment. You can also cancel within 14 days of booking and pay only for the sessions you have used. Prefer to meet first? Book The Cornerstone on its own, and if you go ahead the £120 comes off the programme.

Usually not entirely. Resting completely weakens the tendon further. We agree what your elbow can handle at your assessment and adjust your sport, lifting and grip work around it.

The programme usually runs over eight to ten weeks. Tendons adapt slowly, and your assessment sets the length for your elbow. You leave with the plan to carry on.

If it is not moving, the plan changes, or we refer you on.

No. Alexander is an ISRM Level 5 Soft Tissue Therapist, not a registered physiotherapist. Physiotherapy on this site describes a type of service, not a registration. If your case needs a registered clinician or a doctor, we tell you and refer you.

We do not work with private medical insurers. We provide a full receipt and a paid invoice for every session, so if your policy or health cash plan reimburses treatment, you can claim it back yourself.

Doctors call it medial epicondylitis, or medial elbow tendinopathy. It is pain where the tendons that bend the wrist and close the grip attach to the bony point on the inside of the elbow. Cases that have lasted a while are mostly about the tendon and how much load it can take, not inflammation, which is why loading, not rest, is what changes it.

Yes. Most people with golfer's elbow do not play golf. It is common in people who lift, climb, throw or do manual work, and in anyone who grips hard and often.

Golfer's elbow is on the inside of the elbow, tennis elbow on the outside. They are the same kind of tendon problem on opposite sides, and both respond to the right loading.

The ulnar nerve, the "funny bone" nerve, runs right beside the sore tendon on the inside of the elbow. Tingling or numbness in the ring and little fingers can mean the nerve is irritated too. Tell us at your assessment; if it is the nerve, we will say so and refer you on if needed.

They can ease pain in the short term, but the pain often returns, and they do not strengthen the tendon. If your case would benefit from another option, we will say so and refer you.

It is most common between 35 and 55, in people who lift, climb, row, golf or throw, and in tradespeople. We see it at both clinics, in Kings Cross and in Hampstead, and the assessment and the programme are the same at each.

Go to A&E or urgent care if you fell onto the arm, felt a pop with sudden weakness, the elbow looks out of shape, or you cannot bend or straighten it.

See your GP first if the elbow is hot, red and swollen, if you feel unwell or feverish, if your ring and little fingers are numb or weak, or if the pain is constant and worse at night. We screen for all of these at your assessment and refer you on if your case needs it.