Narrator Voice: “It was not osteoarthritis”
One year later update: Funny that Dr. Aviva Wolff showed up in the Reverse Dart Thrower video, I had a consultation with her about a month after this last post. Her take was that it was a nerve issue, caused by my terrible posture, emanating from the shoulders. She gave me some exercises to correct that, which only succeeded at overly tightening my upper back muscles. However…
…after a few months of fruitless physio, my hand surgeon ordered a nerve conduction study, which sure enough, pointed to an impinged nerve in my elbow, necessitating surgery. Despite the exercises not working (they were too much too soon given the state of my back, something Dr. Wolff would have almost certainly realized had it been an in-person consultation), honestly very impressive that she clocked the actual problem via video consultation alone. I might circle back to her in a few months to a year if the pain doesn’t get the expected fix from the surgery to see if there’s anything that could be done, but I wanted to chime in and say, if you have some kind of injury/defect that pops up and standard medical professionals can’t get to the bottom of it, I’d strongly urge folks to seek Dr. Wolff out: while she’s not cheap, she’s extremely reasonably priced given her credentials, and definitely knows what she’s talking about.
