Foreign Bodies in the Elbow Joint

This type of injury, giving rise to a foreign body in the elbow joint, I have designated "the baseball pitchers' elbow." The cases I have seen all occurred in strong young men, who were pitchers on the baseball teams in their respective colleges. In each case, the injury which later led to the formation of the foreign body in the elbow joint occurred while the patient was pitching during a game of ball. Case 1. —A strong, well built, muscular man, aged 24, stated that five years before, while pitching during a match game, just as he had pitched the ball, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his elbow, felt somewhat nauseated and faint, and was unable to continue the game; he threw his elbow out, as he termed it. A physician saw him at the time and thought he had dislocated his elbow. That night his elbow began