What is Olecranon Bursitis?
Most often associated with tennis, baseball, racquetball players, runners and office workers, injuries to the elbow can happen to anyone over time. Elbow joints can be injured or torn by excessive force, such as lifting a very heavy object while doing yard-work, or repeated everyday friction caused by shoveling dirt or snow, and throwing out the garbage on a daily basis, or playing sports competitively. Olecranon bursitis, also known as elbow bursitis, is an inflammation of a bursa, a synovial fluid-filled sac surrounding tendons and parts of joints. A bursa contains a lubricating fluid that allows smooth gliding between muscles or tendons and bones that move back and forth across each other. There are cushioning bursae in the elbow, hip, knee, shoulder, and other joints of the body. The bursa in the elbow is located between the skin and the tip of the ulna, the long bone in the lower arm that meets the olecranon, the bony prominence of the elbow. Design of the Elbow? Basically, the el
