Orthopedics Elbow Providers
Patrick St. Pierre, MD
- Director, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Eisenhower Desert Orthopedic Center
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Sports Medicine
Our elbow surgeons are supported by a first-class team of highly trained specialists, including physician assistants who are specialists in elbow pain health issues, technicians, state-of-art imaging technology and technologists. Eisenhower Desert Orthopedic Center elbow specialists have seen it all and treated it all, including a wide variety of common elbow injuries, accidents and conditions that do not require advanced elbow procedures.
How do you know when it’s time to make an appointment with elbow surgeons or specialists instead of just toughing it out? Any of the following circumstances should make you consider scheduling a visit as soon as possible:
- An obvious elbow deformity
- A bone that’s protruding
- Difficulty moving elbow
- Pain occurs when arm not in use
- Elbow pain isn’t improving
- Reduced range of motion
- Pain after falling or injury
- Elbow area is reddish or swollen
- Elbow pain is ongoing or worsens
- Home treatment isn’t working
- Difficulty sleeping due to elbow pain
- Elbow weakness that’s worsening
