by Baxter Woman Carrying a Child Downstairs  by Rembrandt In addition to the tendonitis I wrote about last week Elbow Pain and Yoga , another fairly common situation that I have observed in my students over the years are elbows that appear to look like knock knees do at the knee joint. What I mean by that is that the elbow joint seems to bow inward instead of making a straight line from the upper arm bone to the forearm bones. In anatomical terms this is referred to as a “carrying angle,” and sometimes as hyperextension. This could be considered just a variation on normal anatomy of the arms at the elbow joint, but ever since I started studying yoga in the mid-90s, it has been implied by many of my teachers that a carrying angle in weight bearing yoga poses could present some problems for those practitioners. I’ll get to that in a few moments.  Interestingly, if you or I stretch our arm out in front of us, fully extending or straightening at the elbow, with our palm turned up ...