Hm, oh, I'm supposed to be awake here.  The cubital tunnel much like the
carpal tunnel are structures where nerves can easily be pinched.  Carpal
tunnel syndrome is where the median nerve goes over the wrist, the cubital
tunnel is in the elbow medially.  Tennis elbow is lateral epicondylitis
caused by forceful extension of the wrist.(you can feel were this happens if
as you extend your wrist, you place your opposite hand on the outside of
your elbow the muscel will move).

Here's a nice discussion of cubital tunnel syndrome with links to other
common upper extremity overuse syndromes

http://www.handsurgeon.com/cubital.html


Beth t. the OT

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Ken,=20

Cubital tunnel is an over-use syndrome like carpal tunnel, except it affects
the nerves and tendon sheaths on the outside of the elbow.  I think it's
really similar to "tennis elbow."  In my case it made my hand and arm feel
like I was continually hitting my "funny bone," which I didn't think was
"humerus" at all (pun intended).  If Beth T. is around, she can probably
explain it better than I did by far!

Kendall Corbett

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950

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kendal, what is cubital tunnel ?