Why Can't You Use Botox for the Saggy Wrinkled Skin Around the Elbows?

The saggy wrinkled skin around your elbows is due to lax skin and not to muscle contraction. Therefore, injecting the skin will do nothing to relax or ease the severity of the wrinkles around the elbow.

Hi Anabel.  The problem with the theory is that Botox does not work in situations where there is too much skin (skin laxity).  Because the wrinkles on the elbow are caused by excess saggy skin rather than by muscle contraction, it cannot be treated with Botox.  

Hopefully your Mom will find another solution for those saggy elbows.

The only action of Botox is a temporary paralysis of the muscles it is injected into.  If those muscles are respondsible for creasing the skin and causing wrinkles and lines, then the wrinkles and lines won't be created and the skin can appear smoother.  Elbow wrinkles are caused by a lifetime of skin stretching and would not be inproved by Botox.