As an upper extremity specialist, Dr. Patel provides expert care for elbow conditions including tennis elbow, elbow arthroscopy, complex elbow fractures, golfer’s elbow, cubital tunnel syndrome, elbow arthritis, and overuse injuries.
Non-operative care is emphasized when appropriate, including injections and regenerative treatments. When surgery is required, minimally invasive elbow surgery techniques are used to optimize outcomes.
Patients from across Orange County rely on Dr. Patel for accurate diagnosis and long-term elbow pain relief.
Conditions treated include:
- Biceps tendon rupture (distal)
- Capitellar osteochondritis dissecans
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Contracture of the elbow
- Cubital tunnel syndrome
- Distal humerus fractures
- Elbow arthritis (osteoarthritis)
- Elbow dislocation
- Elbow instability (posterolateral rotatory instability)
- Epicondylitis (lateral / tennis elbow)
- Epicondylitis (medial / golfer’s elbow)
- Flexor–pronator mass injury
- Foreign body injury
- Fractures of the elbow (radial head, olecranon, coronoid)
- Heterotopic ossification
- Infection (septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, bursitis)
- Lateral ulnar collateral ligament (LUCL) injury
- Loose bodies
- Malunion
- Nonunion
- Olecranon bursitis
- Osteochondral defects
- Pediatric elbow injuries (supracondylar fractures, nursemaid’s elbow)
- Post-traumatic arthritis
- Pronator syndrome
- Radial head fracture
- Radial nerve compression / posterior interosseous nerve syndrome
- Soft tissue masses or tumors
- Synovitis
- Tendon ruptures (triceps, biceps)
- Triceps tendon rupture
- Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) injury
- Ulnar nerve instability or subluxation
