Intro to tendinosis

Hello everyone! This blog will log you through my recovery of tendinosis. I began weight lifting about 3 years ago and progressed too quickly.  I was left with damaged ligaments and tendons, leaving pain in my elbows.

To learn more about tendinosis, here is some info from wikipedia and the link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendinosis

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Tendinosis, sometimes called chronic tendinitis, chronic tendinopathy or chronic tendon injury, is damage to a tendon at a cellular level. It is thought to be caused by microtears in the connective tissue in and around the tendon.

Tendinosis is typically diagnosed as tendinitis due to the limited understanding of tendinopathies by the medical community.^[1]

The suffix ‘itis’ means inflammation leading to anti-inflammatories being prescribed, despite there being limited support for this treatment in clinical trials.^[2] The strongest evidence for treatment of tendinosis is for nitric oxide patches and for forms of resistance training exercises that ‘load’ the affected tendon.”

I will be getting some therapy done known as Active Release Technique. It is known to really help get rid of tendinosis.

Here is a video from youtube about it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orQlLeTqX18