Tendinopathy Blog December 2013
Dear all What a great year it has been, some excellent tendinopathy research. Thanks to all the blog readers and subscribers and I wish you all the best for 2014 Some interesting studies to sink your skeptical and analytical minds into this month. Enjoy Best wishes Peter Fessel et al. 2013 – Collagen fibrils […]
Tendinopathy Blog November 2013
Dear all Have just enjoyed 4 excellent days at the Sports Med New Zealand conference – thanks for the great hospitality and view from my hotel room Key message from my lecture to delegates was – we need to rethink our focus on tendon ‘healing’ – there is no imaging evidence it happens after […]
Tendinopthy blog October 2013
Hi all Has been a busy month – been teaching tendinipathy courses in Spain and the UK, consulting to athletes in the UK, and presenting at a Muscle and Tendon conference hosted by FC Barcelona (a real highlight, had to pinch myself a couple of times) Some great tendon research this month – enjoy Best […]
Hi All, Here is the latest tendinopathy research – on time! Interesting month – see what you think… All the best Peter Dellaurdiere et al inject an anti angiogenesis agent (bevacizumab) into rat AT and PT and show better healing after collagenase induced tendinopathy. Add it to the list of injection hopefuls in tendinopathy […]
Dear all Sorry the blog is late this month, been busy, but no excuses This month won’t disappoint – interesting stuff from pain mechanisms, to PRP, to load response and hysteresis – and lot’s in there that can be applied clinically Enjoy Peter Littlewood et al. has written review on the role of the […]
Dear all Fantastic research month in tendinopathy – read all about it below. Enjoy Peter Maffulli et al show 17 year follow up of Achilles longitudinal tenotomy surgery – results are good, but I would argue that 99.9% would get better with conservative too – just need to convince them to do conservative rehab […]
Dear all Here is the latest in clinically relevant tendinopathy research. Some cool stuff, including our study showing eccentrics do not lead to better tendon adaptation than concentric after 12 weeks loading if load intensity is similar Enjoy Peter The first study to suggest that, as in muscle, tendon adaptation may be more load […]
Dear all Here is the new look tendinopathy – links to PDF or abstracts included. Some interesting studies, including some loading studies Enjoy Peter Second clinical study showing lack of benefit from PRP in Achilles Impact of autologous blood injections in treatment of mid-portion Achilles tendinopathy: double blind randomised controlled trial http://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f2310 No […]
Dear all, A solid research month in tendinopathy. The most pleasing thing is there is a lot more research on rehabilitation. Here are some highlights. Rees et al. argue for inflammatory vs degenerative pathoaetiology in tendinopathy. An interesting read highlighting that there are inflammatory cells and biochemicals in tendinopathy and arguing for the use of […]
Post-injection tendinopathy rehabilitation
One of the most confusing areas of tendinopathy rehabilitation is what to do post injection and when to do it. There are obviously loads of different injections that are popular in managing tendinopathy patients, including blood injections or PRP, steroid, high volume injections, prolotherapy, sclerosing or polidocinol, etc, etc. Many patients and clinicians have asked […]
Top tips for treating Gluteal Tendinopathy / Trochanteric Bursitis
1) Get the right diagnosis The tendon is often the cause of the pain if it is localised to the lateral hip. The bursa is often secondary but can be involved. The treatment for each is different. Contact us to book an appointment. 2) Aggressively offload from ‘compressive’ positions This includes all positions where the […]
