title: Bilateral painful snapping elbows triggered by daily dumbbell exercises: a case report.
abstract: We treated a 64-year-old female with bilateral painful snapping elbows due to synovial folds. Resection of the bilateral synovial folds resulted in relief from pain and snapping, and resulted in patient satisfaction. Daily dumbbell exercises of the bilateral elbows starting at an elderly age may have led to the bilateral snapping. Painful snapping elbow is a relatively rare condition, which usually occurs in a unilateral elbow of a younger patient. To our knowledge, bilateral painful snapping elbows triggered by daily dumbbell exercises in older patients have not been previously reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hyogo Rehabilitation Center Hospital, Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tateishi
authors.forename: Nobuhiro
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsumura
authors.forename: Tomoyuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumoto
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fujioka
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kokubu
authors.forename: Ryosuke
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: Ryoichi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shiba
authors.forename: Masahiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kurosaka
mesh_terms: D018771:Arthralgia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000150:complications; D004551:Elbow Joint; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D000074402:Synovectomy; D013583:Synovial Membrane / Q000473:pathology; D014891:Weight Lifting