Heal Your Tendonitis Pain
Tendonitis (or tendinitis) is an inflammation or irritation of a tendon, which is any one of the thick fibrous cords that attach muscles to bone. The skeletal muscles in your body are liable for moving your bones, thus enabling you to walk, jump, lift, and move in many ways. When a muscle contracts it pulls on a bone to cause movements. The most common tendon areas that become inflamed are the elbow, wrist, biceps, shoulder , leg, knee (patellar), ankle, hip, and Achilles. The most common cause of tendinitis is overuse syndrome, also called chronic repetitive stress and strain injury. Other causes of tendonitis diabetes or gout and rheumatoid arthritis. Tendonitis symptoms can vary from an achy pain and stiffness to the local area of the tendon, to a burning that surrounds the whole joint around the inflamed tendon.
Tendons come in many shapes and sizes. Some are very small, like the ones that cause movements of your fingers, and some are much larger, such as your achilles tendon in your heel. Treating tendinitis generally begins with the same treatment used for overuse injuries. This includes resting the stressed tissues. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and other analgesics, as these will ease the pain and help reduce inflammation. Apply slow and controlled movement to the affected area. If no pain is felt, you may use very light weights. Massage therapy is becoming a very popular way to ease the pain of tendonits. Ultrasound can also be used as phonophoresis to help topical pain and nutrient solutions reach further down into the tissues. Support braces are often used in tendonitis treatment and prevention.
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