I have hypermobility, which means tendon injuries are just the norm for me. I'm usually juggling 2-3 different tendon injuries at a time. What I've learned over the years is that *you must rest it for the first week, especially the first 2-3 days*, I cannot stress this enough. Injuries I've rested for at least a week have resolved themselves typically in a month or two. Injuries I didn't allow to rest, have nagged me for years.
I’ve had tendinitis in both knees for the past 3 years, tendinitis in both elbows for the past 8 months, tendinitis in the wrists for the past 4 months, and bursitis in my right hip for the past month... and I can feel tendinitis starting in my shoulders... so I totally understand that lol
Sadly unless the pain is unbearable I won't stop training So now I'm off training for two years coz of triceps tendon injury with no remarkable recovery
@Sonofa Seal hypermobile as well. After a serious shoulder injury that just wouldn't get stable after a year of treatment. PRP therapy did in 6 weeks what almost a year of PT couldn't. It's not cheap, but without it I would just be stuck in injury mode forever.
Isometrics if the pain is too intense for reps. Eccentrics, fast reps at submaximal loads, and heavy slow resistance in the 15rep max range eventually working up to a 6rep max. I've healed tendinosis in both knees, both triceps and my left forearm with these techniques. Hope this helps someone in need. Check comment section for some useful info.
Oh great to hear. I have tendinosis in left subscapularis. It's going to be three weeks this Saturday. How long did it take you to heal yours. Were you able to work in that time 😃
could you give me an example of how you go from 15 rep max to 6 rep max? seems like the opposite of progressive overload since you’re reducing the reps
@@brandonn_li man, you just, for example, do biceps curl 25's dumbells for 15 reps, passing some time you curl 30's for 12 reps, after, 35's for 10 reps, after 40's for 8 reps and after 45's for 6 reps. Its simple
@@brandonn_li Just increase the weight. As the weight goes up, reps go down. Just be sure not to speed through your reps. Expect discomfort but not outright pain. Lastly, you're working to that 6 rep max OVERTIME, not in the same workout. How do you know it's time to progress? How do you feel the next 1-2 days after the workout, decent: progress. Feeling like you overdid it: rest and start that rep range over with less weight.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST INFORMATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT TENDON INJURIES ON THE INTERNET. I have been having elbow issues since I started doing push days twice a week and I couldn't figure out what was going on. This video explained everything, thank you
I am currently doing rehab right now and the change of pace is not easy, but necessary. My repetitive strain on the shoulders over the years of resistance training, boxing, bodyweights and yoga has taken its toll. It is such a frustrating place to be in but humbling as well. A lesson in life.
Thanks for basic clarification of tendon, ligament and fascia. Been in sports all my life-knew the basic mechanics and purpose, but reinforcement always important. Now onward to strengthen my elbow and shoulder to avoid injury for climbing.
Tendons are very little vasculated,meaning very little blood vessels are going there thus tendons get very little nutrition and process of recovery is extremely slower than in muscles. To speed up injuries,i've always used the method of stretching and doing light exercises and using creams that cause localized vasodilatation(spreading blood vessels),all this is to increase the blood pumping in the tendons and bringing new nutrition needed for recovery. I've had the tendonitis of lat and rotator(m teres minor to be exact) for 2-3 months,after using all these methods,it recovered in 2 weeks(i've used elastic band and with it i did rear delt exercises and shoulder dislocations)
vasodilating creams soudns cool but you should ABSOLUTELY NOT stretch a tendon with tendonitis. I have two partial tears in my bicep because of this. DO NOT.
Finally someone who tells me why do my tendons hurt after doing a ton of exercise, i hope its not to late to stop puting strees on my tendons until they heal, because i just kept excercising and hurting myself more
@@Root-wq5ir i just keept stretching for a few days like hanging on a bar, and exercising things like legs, after a few days i lifted light weighs and after a few weeks i got better
I find that doing good warm up and focusing on eccentric part of the exercise is always important to prevent injury and if you fell injured just take a few days off, and restart with conditioning exercises and low load and when you start back again focus more on eccentric and that should help.
Tendons, I've found heal somewhat opposite to the way that muscles do. While the best way to repair and heal muscle is mainly rest, the best way to keep your tendons healthy and healing is with movement or exercise. Not lifting heavy weights but using things like resistance bands an high reps with low weights help a ton to keep them healthy.
Tendons get a lot less blood flow than muscles or even bones and rely more on the lymphatic fluid which is circulated via the motion of our limbs. I've definitely felt better in my elbows after doing a few light-weight 50 rep sets.
Muscles actually also react well to movement and (light) load much better than rest. Complete resting has been outdated in sports since since 20 years ago.
I have watched Jill Cook talk about tendinitis and her research suggests that about 25% of us have bad pathology in our tendons but only some of those people will experience pain. She also suggested that you probably can’t cure bad pathology but that even in such a tendon there is enough good pathology that you should be able to keep working the tendons and carefully putting a measured load on them to strengthen them. As a laymen I keep watching videos and looking for corroborating evidence and while some of it overlaps, a lot of it doesn’t seem to or requires me to make assumptions that I’m not qualified to make… I really wish this was easier, I don’t want to have to study it officially, I just want a basic, working understanding that I can be confident in applying to myself.
I Studied it. The correct way for tendinopathy rehab is treating it as a Biopsicosocial pathology. First educate the pacient on what's happening in their injuried tendon. Then educate on pain perception. After that, just go with optimal loads to strengthen the tendon without much pain. For my patients I like to go with Isometrics first, and then start adding a bit of concentric/excentric contractions also without much pain. Maximum a 3 out of 10 in regards of pain perception. If you never exceed the tendon capacity for load, it shouldn't become reactive or degenerative anymore. Also, forget about reducing inflamation with pills. That destroys the whole process of the body to repair and readapt collagen fibers. Maybe use some physical treatment with cold water if the pain is too strong. But I wouldn't even use that.
@@iCaTPSAI find coldness just increase the issue. I have calcification myself and when applying heavy load with squats or extensions it starts hurting one day after and sometimes remains for weeks. I became very careful in order not to strain it too much but it is quite annoying I must say
@@what9418 a year has passed since my answer and now I have more clinical experience about this issue. One of my clients has a half broken supraspinatus tendon. It never healed, it still is half of what it was before injury. Nevertheless, we moderated the perception of pain through exercise and now he can press more than he ever could (at 63 years old) without any pain. Calcifications are a pain in the ass. Not sure if you can totally avoid pain, but if with low loads and higher reps you dont feel pain I highly suggest to not go heavier during couple months and then start slowly ( very slowly) going back to more intense sessions. Maybe that way your tendons might adapt to the irritation generated by those calcifications.
Fell while playing soccer and damaged my tendon for a while. Every competition I participated in had massive stiffness after. I slowed down and it’s all healed now.
I liked this video. I'm currently studying for a diploma in Sports and Exercise. One of my tutors does Anatomy and Physiology classes, and I've learned some stuff on the muscular system and Tendons and how they relate to exercise. But, I've learned just a few more things from this video. I like it 👍👌
When I started rock climbing I had elbow tendonitis/tendonosis from day 1 (well actually day 3, the second time I went climbing). No matter what I did I couldn't get rid of it. Extended period of not climbing (3-6 months) didn't help. Increasing time between sessions didn't help. Reducing intensity of climbing sessions didn't help. Nothing I tried seemed to help until one day I started deadhanging from bar multiple times a day. This fixed my issue in less than 1 month and now I climb all the time, as much as I want, for as long as I can. Key take away I guess is don't stop trying things and if something doesn't work keep looking for other things.
I've been on keto for 45 days now and my lifelong tendonitis is nearly non-existent. Cut out suger and you wont have inflammation. As a climber I was constantly aggravating my bicep and elbow tendonitis. Now I can actually train hard with no pain, crazy.
I’m doing an anti inflammatory diet for my MS and it’s also gluten and dairy that causes inflammation for me! Insane how it relieves so much pain when cutting those foods out. I loved how I felt on keto
@@codedresilience5239 OSE is sugar. Glucose, sucrose, etc. What people dont usually connect is lactose. Stay away from OSE and get as many IUM as possible (Salts) for muscle health and tendon hydration instead of inflammation.
“Cut out suger and you wont have inflammation” Inflammation is caused by much more than just sugar consumption, and moderate sugar consumption rarely causes pathological inflammation.
Been lying down for 5 months unable to walk sit or stand without searing pain. Had to do this through horrible living conditions. This video helped me understand what principles occur with the body. I need to be taken care of not forced to be living on my own, I must immobilize myself properly by doing this. Problem is that my head can't take lying down anymore, I have a headache from how much my brain has pressure against the back of my head. I'm getting myself to a place with a reliably heated pool ASAP so that I can stand ( I can stand easily in 5 ft of water) as much as possible before finally going home ready to lie down for a long time.
i worked through the pain for armwrestling and it helped, after about 6 months of training and always aching serious pain in the brachi tendon in both arms it went away slowly but surely
I lifted weights for over 12 years and never had an issue with tendonitis but my first year of climbing there were days were I could barely drive back home due to pain on the inside of my elbow. After 5 years of climbing, I still get issues with pain on my inner elbows and finger tendon pain due to tears. My best treatment is rest for 1 to 3 months, but now I can take more load on my tendons plus my fingers got thicker,
What really helps strengthening your tendons is to take 20-40mg of collagen protein powder daily. In recent studies it has been shown that by ingesting extra collagen every day it drastically increases your tendons density as well as your bone density. I‘m taking it for a few weeks now and hadn’t any joint pain anymore.
Hey bro, do you think that will help my tricep tendonitis?, whenever i try push exercise, for example push up, my elbow constantly poping, i wonder can i heal it?
This is great advice. I have golfers elbow. Heat and eccentric curls were the only thing that helped it heal. I've literally been dealing with it off and on for 15 years. Very frustrating.
the pain is from muscle imbalances: the stabalizers. especially gripping the weight with a weak grip. do rotation exercises in the arms and legs. hold a light weight out from the body and instead of doing a curl you rotate from left to right with a slight stretch. same with legs. the goal is to strengthen those small stabilizers. you should feel relief in minutes.
Agreed. There’s a reason why we never get pain in both of the same tendons on each side of the body (at least in my experience) when something is weak, you have to compensate to carry the load
Example: When glutes are weak, it puts more stress on the lower back and you may experience lower back pain. The lower back isn’t the problem, it’s the glutes. This is anterior pelvic tilt and is very common. It’s pretty easy to fix it too, you can do it instantly.
Muscle imbalances can be a source of the pain that is mistaken for tendonitis. It can also lead to tendonitis if the imbalance is ignored for too long.
It should be referred to as tendinopathy rather than tendinitis. Terms ending in 'itis' refer to conditions associated with inflammation. Inflammation isn't the main factor here and these anti-inflammatory cures that people are suggesting won't cure tendinopathy. The issue is that the tendon is being asked to take more load than it can handle without being gradually trained up to do so. If the load the tendon is being asked to take is too great and it isn't given enough time to repair itself, it gradually breaks down. The tendon needs to be slowly re-trained and reloaded to allow it to strengthen while having enough repair time between exercise sessions. Taking an anti-inflammatory is not going to cure the root cause, which is that the tendon has been worn down, not the associated inflammation. Eccentric exercises with low load are a good place to start, then progress onto heavier exercise which can be both eccentric + concentric. Use pain as a guide for the amount of load, if the morning or evening after doing exercises you are in pain above 4 out of 10, then decrease the load or reps that you are doing. Anti-inflammatories can provide symptomatic relief, but if you return to the same intensity activities that caused the pain in the first place, you'll likely have it re-occur.
Ligamentous injuries like sprained ankles can take a very long time to heal properly which is mostly due to the fact that they don’t have a very good blood supply. So you can speed up the healing process by increasing blood supply to your ankle and foot. One of the best ways to do this would be putting warm, moist heat on the area as often as you can. Moist heat will penetrate the tissue at least 2 inches deep and will increase blood flow to the area. Heat combined with a slight elevation and a gas pedal motion of the foot (dorsi/plantar flexion) will be fantastic for the healing process. This gas pedal motion will help pump blood and lymph out of the foot via the Soleus muscle which is primarily responsible for pumping blood back up to the heart.
must use uniform compress when use heat least overload area with fluid = result be counterproductive and stretch the relatively non-elastic ligamentous tissue ( tho spinal ligaments have sum elastic qualities ).
I did bicep curls really hard and couldn't extend my arms fully the next day. I think it was acute tendonitis, (always check with a professional). But tbh it doesn't hurt now, so I take that as my tendons getting stronger and gains.
Make sure to massage and stretch the muscle regularly and don't push them too hard. Overtime your muscle may shorten and put your tendons at greater risk of injury. Massage on the middle portion of your muscle mainly.
You should only do eccentric exercises towards the end of rehab, start with isometric exercises then progress to concentric and finally eccentric. Starting with eccentric like this video said can lead to worsening the injury.
It is mentioned in video that fascia connects muscle to muscle, but the plantar fascia, starts from calceneus towards the toe i.e. connecting muscle to bone.
I tore a tendon in my foot, maybe even a few, a few months ago because I twisted my ankle really bad, and cracked my fibula bone (outer bone below the knee). The bone may be healed already, there was no need for a cast since it wasn't severe bone damage, but I still have side effects of my tendon injury. At the time I went to a doctor, but didn't get any rehab stuff, i was just given medicine and plenty of rest.
Tendinitis since almost a year to my shoulders, it has gone down to my left forearm around 6 months ago and it's slowly reaching the right one too. It hurts as hell every time I do some exercises so I had to change them with similar exercises that permit more freeness of the wrist so it hurts way less (or even don't hurt at all). I did a few months break and it went away, then got it back by swimming with friends at the beach... this shit just won't go away, no matter if I let it heal it will come again once I start training or doing anything a bit intense so I'll just live with it.
Found the video really interesting. The only thing is at 1:50, there was so many various noise, background music and voice over that I had no idea what to focus on. I like the ambiant noise to represent the healing parts, but maybe toning down the background music so we could hear the narration would help.
My peroneal tendon where it goes into my foot is twice as thick as the one on my other foot. I started having ankle problems in February. I had no idea what was wrong with my ankle. I continued trying to run on it and lifting and carrying heavy things. In August I happened to notice that the tendon was really thick but I continued doing things that put a lot of stress on the tendon, I even rolled my ankle a few times walking on uneven ground. Now I'm really trying to put a lot of attention to healing it and in just 6 days it has gotten significantly better. The tendon has started getting smaller and the pain and discomfort is a lot less. If I just had one month to rest it and do all the recovery things I'm doing I have no doubt it would be fully healed. Things I'm doing are resting it, applying cold and hot to the area, massaging it for 20 minutes every other day, keeping it raised for an hour every day, putting it in hot water an hour every day, doing Wim Hof breathing exercises twice a day and trying to focus on circulation to the area, weighted exercises, unweighted exercises, wearing a compression sleeve most of the day, and ibuprofen because I always felt like it helped me heal faster. I think I can definitely have it healed by next year although resting it every day isn't an option right now. Also I think there's something to keeping focus on that area and just thinking about healing all the time.
I am curious if you made a full recovery ? I am currently dealing with my peroneal tendon, coincidentally doing wim hof as well as most of what you mentioned. 😅
@@gummybearsonstrike147 I fully recovered but it took awhile. What seems to work best is applying cold and hot to the tendon a lot and exercising it. I think massaging it just aggravated it. Keeping it raised doesn't really do anything for healing. Just applying heat to it without the cold makes it too stiff and tight and also you don't want to make it too hot. I did and got burned which aggravated the tendon. Wearing a compression sleeve just aggravated it. Ibuprofen interferes with collagen production so that's not good for tendon healing. Also pain and discomfort isn't always a bad thing and it doesn't mean you're not healing.
great video and I understand things now and have serious pain IT bands and arms and biceps and triceps. 37 athlete and cant get out of bed. Will rest up and heal.
I was doing curls super fast. Then was in pain. Couldn't curl with that arm or do anything. Took for ever to heal. Like 3 months. Lost so much muscle. Definitely warn up and take your time lifting weights
The weird thing for me is that, when I don’t work out or do any physical activity, my tendons hurt more than they did before. On the contrary, when I work out more while being more physically active, my tendons have virtually no pain in a few weeks.
For best recovery, tendons are required to be surrounded by blood in the local muscles since they have no direct bloody supply. Movement keeps them from getting too tight, too.
3 years and counting for my shoulder impingement. Every time they give me exercises to do against a wall it gets worse and worse. Stopped exercising completely for about 1.5 years but got no better. Now I’m doing some exercise but trying not to overload it - that’s when it gets bad. It always feels much better during and after exercise…here’s hoping for it to heal this year….😐
It's Dec. 2nd 2024. I had tendinitis in my elbows ( Tennis Elbow) I took 1000 mg of Vitamin C for 3 months, and still taking it, all elbow pain gone. I told many others and it worked for them too
Do band work with small bands targeting tendon until it burns like a mf 2-4 times a week before workout. Like 100 reps+ curls, tricep extension, should be easy af, not heavy resistance. You can do this for all body parts, best way to warm up. Also change exercise causing the issue, sometimes just different grip and do lighter weights as needed. Tendons will get stronger and will be able to handle all your strength gains in the future. Just keep up band work. Also get a collagen supplement, its like protein powder for the joints yo ;) Good luck! I've cured my tendon issues doing this btw.
Eccentrics with bands are great. You dont want too much burn....but the burn is actually the collagen fibers re-aligning! Let it burn and use a bit of ice until the pain is more manageable.
A point worth mentioning is that tendons become less vascular as we get older, hence the reason why we need to do higher reps in order for them to get more blood supply. I've been dealing with proximal biceps tendonitis for quite awhile now and I just realized that in order for my shoulder to heal, I need to do biceps cable curls for the longhead. Started that only yesterday and already can feel the difference. Do alot of them. The load is not as important as the total amount of reps. And like chrischandon said; go for the burn. Apparently, lactic acid buildup will strengthen the tendons. Strength isin't so much about muscle size as it is about tendon health.
I work in a a shop when we make wood structures for buildings. Swinging a 22oz hammer gave me a tendinitis. I wear now a support for my wrist and feels much better
@@juannunez4436 it is the bodies natural response for inflammation to occur I never think it should be suppressed unless necessary. For example an allergic reaction
Unless you are wealthy, doctors aren’t willing to give you more than a couple minutes unless you are in critical condition. And specialist doctors cost a fortune even with insurance. I went to an ENT doctor for acid reflux and he used a scope to evaluate my esophagus. It took two minutes, and after insurance was $400. I’m never going to a specialist again. Regular people simply can’t afford the attention of specialist doctors.
I have spondylolisthesis in the lower back,i visited a doctor and he told me to "walk". No X-ray no nothing. Just told me to move and that cost me 50€. After three more visits to quacks and talks of surgery(without even a real diagnosis!!!) i found an actual professional and self respecting doctor who not only diagnosed me properly but gave me the proper exercises to do. There are many quacks out there it's ridiculous how many doctors don't know shit or are terrible at what they do. It's like dieticians,50% of them or more are obese. Go figure.
I've had horrible experience with orthopedic doctors. Theyve tended to diagnose things with utmost certainty and when u come back two months later and it's apparent they were wrong, they diagnosis it with certainty as something else. You're better off talking to a yogi that has studied the body or possibly a PT.
Anthony 1987 Not worth it...Better to take 6 months or how ever long as it takes and get a bit unhealthy then to do permanent damage that will hurt for years and effect every day life. Plus for most people - they only have it in their upper body or lower body so they can just focus on other activities to stay fit. The negative health effects of not being able to train properly for years due to injury are much worse then just resting for a short period of time.
I've got excited with a new preworkout recipe and for about 2 months I was spending over 1.5h at the gym during arm workout. The pump was really intense. But then I started feeling something popping in my elbow. First it was on the inside portion of my elbow but it went away in about 3 weeks. Then I started feeling some discomfort from what seemed to be the tennis player elbow injury and it kept getting worse until I couldn't do any exercise using my triceps, no matter what grip I tried. I took a break from upper body workouts for about 2 months and it still feeling the same. I wonder if there's a stretching exercise that can help with it? Thanks!
What about the nutrition? What to eat to help the healing process. My elbows are killing me from weight lifting. Cannot recover. Stoping the weight lifting is kind of a no go.
I liked the video, education for the non medical viewer. I also like that you use the word tendinopathy as true tendinitis actually doesn't happen. As far as the rehab concepts go, I'm gonna have to disagree with some of the things mentioned here. First don't massage a damaged tendon. Second, don't stretch a damaged tendon. Why stretch a structure that has micro tears in it? Third, go straight to a physical therapist instead of a orthopedist who will just send you to a PT. Save the money from the orthopedist trip and go straight to a good PT.
kenny mora yes. Chronic tendinitis or tendonosis is a non-inflammatory condition where the tendons structure fundamentally changes. The long rows of collagen fibers become disordered and are no longer in parallel (this orientation allows them to most efficiently distribute force). A tendon can regain proper alignment of collagen, but this process takes a long time. Perhaps a year or more. That being said you can regain the majority of function before this. I’m simply talking about restoring the tendon to its original collagen orientation.
Josh Dowden thanks. I got injured in my groin and had a pop ever since I had pain there, eventually 9 months later after physical therapy my doctor said I have tendinitis and gave me a cortisone shot. It worked but it still hurts when I tighten my muscle and it hurts more after I play basketball. Any thoughts on what I should do? Like surgery or anything it’s been almost a year and I’m only 22 this feels like an old man injury lmaooo
My tendon will heal in 36 hours whether it likes it or not.
Noah ieg i’m struggling since 5 months now to heal mine 😢
i fucked up my tendons by forcing them too much before and after injury... never do like me please
Fuck yeah. Winners attitude
john dorris Yes seriously depressing !.. My only hope is that it should heal without the need to go in for surgery 😰😰
I like the attitude. I have the same demand on my body. I just have to reset every 3 days.
i love how almost 0% of bodybuilding videos mention nothing about tendons
that would mean that they all mention tendons...
almost 0% would be backwards scaling so it prepares you for backwards logic
they are stupid or they didn't personally experience this ! for me I'm experience it for the first time in my life ! a golfer elbow ! not fun at all
Agreed. Took me 18 months after tendonitus to start doing pullups again... UGH.
good to hear you're back at doing pull ups , nice :D
I have hypermobility, which means tendon injuries are just the norm for me. I'm usually juggling 2-3 different tendon injuries at a time. What I've learned over the years is that *you must rest it for the first week, especially the first 2-3 days*, I cannot stress this enough.
Injuries I've rested for at least a week have resolved themselves typically in a month or two. Injuries I didn't allow to rest, have nagged me for years.
Arnold Schwarzenegger im in the nagging for years boat... i keep aggravating it
I’ve had tendinitis in both knees for the past 3 years, tendinitis in both elbows for the past 8 months, tendinitis in the wrists for the past 4 months, and bursitis in my right hip for the past month... and I can feel tendinitis starting in my shoulders... so I totally understand that lol
lol i just posted then look thougj the posted iv have hypermobility syndrom so im fuckef
Sadly unless the pain is unbearable I won't stop training
So now I'm off training for two years coz of triceps tendon injury with no remarkable recovery
@Sonofa Seal hypermobile as well. After a serious shoulder injury that just wouldn't get stable after a year of treatment. PRP therapy did in 6 weeks what almost a year of PT couldn't. It's not cheap, but without it I would just be stuck in injury mode forever.
Isometrics if the pain is too intense for reps. Eccentrics, fast reps at submaximal loads, and heavy slow resistance in the 15rep max range eventually working up to a 6rep max. I've healed tendinosis in both knees, both triceps and my left forearm with these techniques. Hope this helps someone in need.
Check comment section for some useful info.
Oh great to hear. I have tendinosis in left subscapularis. It's going to be three weeks this Saturday. How long did it take you to heal yours. Were you able to work in that time 😃
thanks i'll try it 🙏🏼
could you give me an example of how you go from 15 rep max to 6 rep max? seems like the opposite of progressive overload since you’re reducing the reps
@@brandonn_li man, you just, for example, do biceps curl 25's dumbells for 15 reps, passing some time you curl 30's for 12 reps, after, 35's for 10 reps, after 40's for 8 reps and after 45's for 6 reps. Its simple
@@brandonn_li Just increase the weight. As the weight goes up, reps go down. Just be sure not to speed through your reps. Expect discomfort but not outright pain. Lastly, you're working to that 6 rep max OVERTIME, not in the same workout. How do you know it's time to progress? How do you feel the next 1-2 days after the workout, decent: progress. Feeling like you overdid it: rest and start that rep range over with less weight.
Believe me, the first ever video I loved about biology. Your way of conveying the education is great.
Why did this video magically appear on my UA-cam list? When I’ve had tendonitis recently
Me too 😬
Lol same
Same here !
I think I have the same problem...I was like wtf...Something's not right here lol
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THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST INFORMATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT TENDON INJURIES ON THE INTERNET. I have been having elbow issues since I started doing push days twice a week and I couldn't figure out what was going on. This video explained everything, thank you
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I am currently doing rehab right now and the change of pace is not easy, but necessary. My repetitive strain on the shoulders over the years of resistance training, boxing, bodyweights and yoga has taken its toll. It is such a frustrating place to be in but humbling as well. A lesson in life.
I understand you bro I’m doing prone excercises
How’s it going are you feeling better ???
Thanks for basic clarification of tendon, ligament and fascia. Been in sports all my life-knew the basic mechanics and purpose, but reinforcement always important. Now onward to strengthen my elbow and shoulder to avoid injury for climbing.
Thanks for simplifying things and making it easy to understand what's needed for recovery
Best video on Tendons & Tendinitis i've seen so far, thx for making it!
Tendons are very little vasculated,meaning very little blood vessels are going there thus tendons get very little nutrition and process of recovery is extremely slower than in muscles.
To speed up injuries,i've always used the method of stretching and doing light exercises and using creams that cause localized vasodilatation(spreading blood vessels),all this is to increase the blood pumping in the tendons and bringing new nutrition needed for recovery.
I've had the tendonitis of lat and rotator(m teres minor to be exact) for 2-3 months,after using all these methods,it recovered in 2 weeks(i've used elastic band and with it i did rear delt exercises and shoulder dislocations)
Ooh, I hadn't even thought of vasodilating creams. Gotta use that for tendon gains
vasodilating creams soudns cool but you should ABSOLUTELY NOT stretch a tendon with tendonitis. I have two partial tears in my bicep because of this. DO NOT.
What about tendon thickening
Finally someone who tells me why do my tendons hurt after doing a ton of exercise, i hope its not to late to stop puting strees on my tendons until they heal, because i just kept excercising and hurting myself more
Good day, I read your comment and I want to ask, Hoy did you go ? Any tips ?
I'm going to the same problem :n
@@Root-wq5ir i just keept stretching for a few days like hanging on a bar, and exercising things like legs, after a few days i lifted light weighs and after a few weeks i got better
@@lucasroman6510 did you totally heal now?
@@lucasroman6510 did you heal?
I find that doing good warm up and focusing on eccentric part of the exercise is always important to prevent injury and if you fell injured just take a few days off, and restart with conditioning exercises and low load and when you start back again focus more on eccentric and that should help.
Tendons, I've found heal somewhat opposite to the way that muscles do. While the best way to repair and heal muscle is mainly rest, the best way to keep your tendons healthy and healing is with movement or exercise. Not lifting heavy weights but using things like resistance bands an high reps with low weights help a ton to keep them healthy.
Tendons get a lot less blood flow than muscles or even bones and rely more on the lymphatic fluid which is circulated via the motion of our limbs. I've definitely felt better in my elbows after doing a few light-weight 50 rep sets.
@@jeffumbach what about heat gels do they work ?
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Muscles actually also react well to movement and (light) load much better than rest. Complete resting has been outdated in sports since since 20 years ago.
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Superb video. Not one unnecessary word; just the facts, delivered very well with great, engaging graphics. Thank you. 👍👏👏
I have watched Jill Cook talk about tendinitis and her research suggests that about 25% of us have bad pathology in our tendons but only some of those people will experience pain. She also suggested that you probably can’t cure bad pathology but that even in such a tendon there is enough good pathology that you should be able to keep working the tendons and carefully putting a measured load on them to strengthen them. As a laymen I keep watching videos and looking for corroborating evidence and while some of it overlaps, a lot of it doesn’t seem to or requires me to make assumptions that I’m not qualified to make… I really wish this was easier, I don’t want to have to study it officially, I just want a basic, working understanding that I can be confident in applying to myself.
I Studied it. The correct way for tendinopathy rehab is treating it as a Biopsicosocial pathology. First educate the pacient on what's happening in their injuried tendon. Then educate on pain perception. After that, just go with optimal loads to strengthen the tendon without much pain. For my patients I like to go with Isometrics first, and then start adding a bit of concentric/excentric contractions also without much pain. Maximum a 3 out of 10 in regards of pain perception. If you never exceed the tendon capacity for load, it shouldn't become reactive or degenerative anymore. Also, forget about reducing inflamation with pills. That destroys the whole process of the body to repair and readapt collagen fibers. Maybe use some physical treatment with cold water if the pain is too strong. But I wouldn't even use that.
@@iCaTPSAI find coldness just increase the issue. I have calcification myself and when applying heavy load with squats or extensions it starts hurting one day after and sometimes remains for weeks.
I became very careful in order not to strain it too much but it is quite annoying I must say
@@what9418 a year has passed since my answer and now I have more clinical experience about this issue.
One of my clients has a half broken supraspinatus tendon. It never healed, it still is half of what it was before injury. Nevertheless, we moderated the perception of pain through exercise and now he can press more than he ever could (at 63 years old) without any pain.
Calcifications are a pain in the ass. Not sure if you can totally avoid pain, but if with low loads and higher reps you dont feel pain I highly suggest to not go heavier during couple months and then start slowly ( very slowly) going back to more intense sessions. Maybe that way your tendons might adapt to the irritation generated by those calcifications.
The sound effects of healing tendons was awesome along with everything else.
1:46 "You have tendinitis! 50 Euros please!"
EXACTLY
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It must be nice, in America it’d be closer to $600
@@bambam7852 damn it I'm not paying even a ducking €50, I pay €26 ($23.28) 🤣🤣
How Greek did that sound xD
Fell while playing soccer and damaged my tendon for a while. Every competition I participated in had massive stiffness after. I slowed down and it’s all healed now.
I liked this video. I'm currently studying for a diploma in Sports and Exercise. One of my tutors does Anatomy and Physiology classes, and I've learned some stuff on the muscular system and Tendons and how they relate to exercise. But, I've learned just a few more things from this video. I like it 👍👌
Thank you for this! I always ask my doctor to explain things thoroughly but time is an element in short supply!
When I started rock climbing I had elbow tendonitis/tendonosis from day 1 (well actually day 3, the second time I went climbing). No matter what I did I couldn't get rid of it. Extended period of not climbing (3-6 months) didn't help. Increasing time between sessions didn't help. Reducing intensity of climbing sessions didn't help. Nothing I tried seemed to help until one day I started deadhanging from bar multiple times a day. This fixed my issue in less than 1 month and now I climb all the time, as much as I want, for as long as I can.
Key take away I guess is don't stop trying things and if something doesn't work keep looking for other things.
Training tendons before training strength is priority to prevent injury. Thank you friend for this video.
Short and simple, just perfect!
Great video here. I loved all its informative advice and look to implement it when stressing tendons throughout my body.
Thanks for this
I've been on keto for 45 days now and my lifelong tendonitis is nearly non-existent. Cut out suger and you wont have inflammation. As a climber I was constantly aggravating my bicep and elbow tendonitis. Now I can actually train hard with no pain, crazy.
I’m doing an anti inflammatory diet for my MS and it’s also gluten and dairy that causes inflammation for me! Insane how it relieves so much pain when cutting those foods out. I loved how I felt on keto
Thanks man
@@codedresilience5239 OSE is sugar. Glucose, sucrose, etc. What people dont usually connect is lactose.
Stay away from OSE and get as many IUM as possible (Salts) for muscle health and tendon hydration instead of inflammation.
“Cut out suger and you wont have inflammation”
Inflammation is caused by much more than just sugar consumption, and moderate sugar consumption rarely causes pathological inflammation.
weird wish it was true for everyone
Been lying down for 5 months unable to walk sit or stand without searing pain. Had to do this through horrible living conditions. This video helped me understand what principles occur with the body. I need to be taken care of not forced to be living on my own, I must immobilize myself properly by doing this. Problem is that my head can't take lying down anymore, I have a headache from how much my brain has pressure against the back of my head. I'm getting myself to a place with a reliably heated pool ASAP so that I can stand ( I can stand easily in 5 ft of water) as much as possible before finally going home ready to lie down for a long time.
I have a tendon injury and you helped me a lot to understand what was happening. Thank you.
i worked through the pain for armwrestling and it helped, after about 6 months of training and always aching serious pain in the brachi tendon in both arms it went away slowly but surely
Nice vid! I struggled against a tendinopathy on my achilles for 1 yr... now I'm cured... but it was the worst injury in 10yrs running...
How did you cure it
I'm a Physical Therapist Assistant and I can confirm that this is 1000% correct!
6 months !!!!
I lifted weights for over 12 years and never had an issue with tendonitis but my first year of climbing there were days were I could barely drive back home due to pain on the inside of my elbow. After 5 years of climbing, I still get issues with pain on my inner elbows and finger tendon pain due to tears. My best treatment is rest for 1 to 3 months, but now I can take more load on my tendons plus my fingers got thicker,
If your fix is to simply rest for an extended period of time your not fixing the problem properly.
@@2204JCM exactly
I have this same issue. Switched from weight lifting to rock climbing (bouldering) and developed bad bicep tendinitis and tendinitis in my thumbs
this channel is a goldmine
What really helps strengthening your tendons is to take 20-40mg of collagen protein powder daily. In recent studies it has been shown that by ingesting extra collagen every day it drastically increases your tendons density as well as your bone density. I‘m taking it for a few weeks now and hadn’t any joint pain anymore.
Hey bro, do you think that will help my tricep tendonitis?, whenever i try push exercise, for example push up, my elbow constantly poping, i wonder can i heal it?
@@muhammadhaidartavarel8944 same did you find a cure ?
It's been 4 years
You mean grams?
Study link?
This is great advice. I have golfers elbow. Heat and eccentric curls were the only thing that helped it heal. I've literally been dealing with it off and on for 15 years. Very frustrating.
the pain is from muscle imbalances: the stabalizers. especially gripping the weight with a weak grip. do rotation exercises in the arms and legs. hold a light weight out from the body and instead of doing a curl you rotate from left to right with a slight stretch. same with legs. the goal is to strengthen those small stabilizers. you should feel relief in minutes.
Agreed. There’s a reason why we never get pain in both of the same tendons on each side of the body (at least in my experience) when something is weak, you have to compensate to carry the load
Example: When glutes are weak, it puts more stress on the lower back and you may experience lower back pain. The lower back isn’t the problem, it’s the glutes. This is anterior pelvic tilt and is very common. It’s pretty easy to fix it too, you can do it instantly.
Muscle imbalances can be a source of the pain that is mistaken for tendonitis. It can also lead to tendonitis if the imbalance is ignored for too long.
Incredible how you managed to fit this amount of information, in such an engaging short video. Thank you for this!
It should be referred to as tendinopathy rather than tendinitis. Terms ending in 'itis' refer to conditions associated with inflammation. Inflammation isn't the main factor here and these anti-inflammatory cures that people are suggesting won't cure tendinopathy. The issue is that the tendon is being asked to take more load than it can handle without being gradually trained up to do so. If the load the tendon is being asked to take is too great and it isn't given enough time to repair itself, it gradually breaks down. The tendon needs to be slowly re-trained and reloaded to allow it to strengthen while having enough repair time between exercise sessions. Taking an anti-inflammatory is not going to cure the root cause, which is that the tendon has been worn down, not the associated inflammation. Eccentric exercises with low load are a good place to start, then progress onto heavier exercise which can be both eccentric + concentric. Use pain as a guide for the amount of load, if the morning or evening after doing exercises you are in pain above 4 out of 10, then decrease the load or reps that you are doing. Anti-inflammatories can provide symptomatic relief, but if you return to the same intensity activities that caused the pain in the first place, you'll likely have it re-occur.
Great comment
@@Arjogezhgood call. Always bugs me when even medical people call tinnitus tinnitis.
Why did this guy just gloss over "permanently injured tendon"? Thats what we're all worried about, so dive right in chief
Dr. Google ain't good bro, we don't want to develop hypochondria do we?
Get a professional to check you.
I have a partially ruptured right shoulder tendon!! Its been almost 2 years now but it's still aching..
@@pashtun-travels-uk how is it now? You got partial thickness supraspinatus tear? How much? more than 50%?
@@ValDJesus so affordable and easy to do so, right
I am an amateur arm wrestler and this helped a lot understand more about my tendons and ligaments
The doctor looks like a coach
Lol u pear lookin
some coaches are doctors
Aren't doctors coaches?
Ligamentous injuries like sprained ankles can take a very long time to heal properly which is mostly due to the fact that they don’t have a very good blood supply. So you can speed up the healing process by increasing blood supply to your ankle and foot. One of the best ways to do this would be putting warm, moist heat on the area as often as you can. Moist heat will penetrate the tissue at least 2 inches deep and will increase blood flow to the area. Heat combined with a slight elevation and a gas pedal motion of the foot (dorsi/plantar flexion) will be fantastic for the healing process. This gas pedal motion will help pump blood and lymph out of the foot via the Soleus muscle which is primarily responsible for pumping blood back up to the heart.
must use uniform compress when use heat least overload area with fluid = result be counterproductive and stretch the relatively non-elastic ligamentous tissue ( tho spinal ligaments have sum elastic qualities ).
That was awesome animation, as far as I'm concerned.
Injured my arm lifting, stopped for 6 months. Now I’m back at it and I feel great!
I did bicep curls really hard and couldn't extend my arms fully the next day. I think it was acute tendonitis, (always check with a professional). But tbh it doesn't hurt now, so I take that as my tendons getting stronger and gains.
thats called your muscle doing its job and being too sore to move comfortably
Make sure to massage and stretch the muscle regularly and don't push them too hard. Overtime your muscle may shorten and put your tendons at greater risk of injury. Massage on the middle portion of your muscle mainly.
Although doctors and physios say out ice on it or something don't do this, it will only lengthen your injury process, it isn't optimal
In my opinion sunshine is the best
Exactly, recent studies back this up. Heat and light movement are key, along with sufficient sleep and nutritious diet
Wtf is this omniscient noise soundtrack, had me looking back in my chair the entire video.
Lol
Man you teaching me more than my teacher.its more fun to watch your video
Will taking collagen supplements help tendonitis ??
i am suffering from tendinities almost a year now,i think it will stuck with me till the end
I was looking for Tendon Tempura... not what expected...
BTW Tendon Tempura is the best way to eat tempura!
lol true
That sounds extremely painful
You should only do eccentric exercises towards the end of rehab, start with isometric exercises then progress to concentric and finally eccentric. Starting with eccentric like this video said can lead to worsening the injury.
Great Video!
I have Adductor Tendinopathy. Thanks for this video, it helped a lot!
0:05 Simon Chipmunk saying "Tendon Basics"
It is mentioned in video that fascia connects muscle to muscle, but the plantar fascia, starts from calceneus towards the toe i.e. connecting muscle to bone.
Great video, very informative
+Da'Oiz Comedy Thanks! Glad you liked it!
I tore a tendon in my foot, maybe even a few, a few months ago because I twisted my ankle really bad, and cracked my fibula bone (outer bone below the knee). The bone may be healed already, there was no need for a cast since it wasn't severe bone damage, but I still have side effects of my tendon injury. At the time I went to a doctor, but didn't get any rehab stuff, i was just given medicine and plenty of rest.
I never searched related things anywhere online but UA-cam knows I’m injured. IT KNOWS
Sad truth they can hear what we say in conversations and all of our Google searches and other Google apps habits
had it around my elbow after curling too heavy, pulling back on a squat bar really helped to stretch it out... Night and day difference after that.
Tendinitis since almost a year to my shoulders, it has gone down to my left forearm around 6 months ago and it's slowly reaching the right one too.
It hurts as hell every time I do some exercises so I had to change them with similar exercises that permit more freeness of the wrist so it hurts way less (or even don't hurt at all).
I did a few months break and it went away, then got it back by swimming with friends at the beach... this shit just won't go away, no matter if I let it heal it will come again once I start training or doing anything a bit intense so I'll just live with it.
Found the video really interesting. The only thing is at 1:50, there was so many various noise, background music and voice over that I had no idea what to focus on. I like the ambiant noise to represent the healing parts, but maybe toning down the background music so we could hear the narration would help.
Are you autistic? Damn everyone these days so weak about everything
My peroneal tendon where it goes into my foot is twice as thick as the one on my other foot. I started having ankle problems in February. I had no idea what was wrong with my ankle. I continued trying to run on it and lifting and carrying heavy things. In August I happened to notice that the tendon was really thick but I continued doing things that put a lot of stress on the tendon, I even rolled my ankle a few times walking on uneven ground. Now I'm really trying to put a lot of attention to healing it and in just 6 days it has gotten significantly better. The tendon has started getting smaller and the pain and discomfort is a lot less. If I just had one month to rest it and do all the recovery things I'm doing I have no doubt it would be fully healed. Things I'm doing are resting it, applying cold and hot to the area, massaging it for 20 minutes every other day, keeping it raised for an hour every day, putting it in hot water an hour every day, doing Wim Hof breathing exercises twice a day and trying to focus on circulation to the area, weighted exercises, unweighted exercises, wearing a compression sleeve most of the day, and ibuprofen because I always felt like it helped me heal faster. I think I can definitely have it healed by next year although resting it every day isn't an option right now. Also I think there's something to keeping focus on that area and just thinking about healing all the time.
I am curious if you made a full recovery ? I am currently dealing with my peroneal tendon, coincidentally doing wim hof as well as most of what you mentioned. 😅
@@gummybearsonstrike147 I fully recovered but it took awhile. What seems to work best is applying cold and hot to the tendon a lot and exercising it. I think massaging it just aggravated it. Keeping it raised doesn't really do anything for healing. Just applying heat to it without the cold makes it too stiff and tight and also you don't want to make it too hot. I did and got burned which aggravated the tendon. Wearing a compression sleeve just aggravated it. Ibuprofen interferes with collagen production so that's not good for tendon healing. Also pain and discomfort isn't always a bad thing and it doesn't mean you're not healing.
@@azsegrxdhtfgvijnkomlewrhtg9508 i am having same problem... so no ibuprofeb, controled and excentric excercise and hot n cold over the area?
great video and I understand things now and have serious pain IT bands and arms and biceps and triceps. 37 athlete and cant get out of bed. Will rest up and heal.
Planche : Let's play with the Tendons!
Lmao, spot on. Just injured my tendons on my right arm a few days ago doing planche
Why u do me like that 😭. I had to stop my olanche training. It's been 3-4 months now. I am sure I will go back but i have to be patient for that
Wonderful wish there was more videos like this on YT.
no wonder it took 6 months for my Achilles to feel normal again... I was told a month or 2 by a doctor… but damn… 6 long months... amazin
I was doing curls super fast. Then was in pain. Couldn't curl with that arm or do anything. Took for ever to heal. Like 3 months. Lost so much muscle. Definitely warn up and take your time lifting weights
But you have muscle memory you will get back strong fast
The weird thing for me is that, when I don’t work out or do any physical activity, my tendons hurt more than they did before. On the contrary, when I work out more while being more physically active, my tendons have virtually no pain in a few weeks.
Movement is important
For best recovery, tendons are required to be surrounded by blood in the local muscles since they have no direct bloody supply. Movement keeps them from getting too tight, too.
Yep, stopping all activity and just lying around is often the worst thing you can do really when it comes to healing soft tissues.
3 years and counting for my shoulder impingement. Every time they give me exercises to do against a wall it gets worse and worse. Stopped exercising completely for about 1.5 years but got no better. Now I’m doing some exercise but trying not to overload it - that’s when it gets bad. It always feels much better during and after exercise…here’s hoping for it to heal this year….😐
0:15 Wow I learned something new today !
okay dumb fuck
It's Dec. 2nd 2024. I had tendinitis in my elbows ( Tennis Elbow) I took 1000 mg of Vitamin C for 3 months, and still taking it, all elbow pain gone. I told many others and it worked for them too
Wdym rest for a week, I clock in at 3💀💀
This video made me instantly feel my tendons
Do band work with small bands targeting tendon until it burns like a mf 2-4 times a week before workout. Like 100 reps+ curls, tricep extension, should be easy af, not heavy resistance. You can do this for all body parts, best way to warm up. Also change exercise causing the issue, sometimes just different grip and do lighter weights as needed. Tendons will get stronger and will be able to handle all your strength gains in the future. Just keep up band work. Also get a collagen supplement, its like protein powder for the joints yo ;) Good luck! I've cured my tendon issues doing this btw.
Works well? I´m a guitarrist
Good advice sir! Just make sure you listen to your body and don't force it as it could cause further damage. And yes collagen supplements help
Eccentrics with bands are great. You dont want too much burn....but the burn is actually the collagen fibers re-aligning! Let it burn and use a bit of ice until the pain is more manageable.
A point worth mentioning is that tendons become less vascular as we get older, hence the reason why we need to do higher reps in order for them to get more blood supply. I've been dealing with proximal biceps tendonitis for quite awhile now and I just realized that in order for my shoulder to heal, I need to do biceps cable curls for the longhead. Started that only yesterday and already can feel the difference. Do alot of them. The load is not as important as the total amount of reps. And like chrischandon said; go for the burn. Apparently, lactic acid buildup will strengthen the tendons. Strength isin't so much about muscle size as it is about tendon health.
What type of collagen supplement do you recommend?
Finally a good explanation of this topic. THANKS!
“...yet if the tendon is repeatedly strained so that the rate of degradation exceeds that of regeneration...” lol - he liked saying that 😄
Ha Du yea he was hella waiting.. bruh is showing he could use his words lmaoo
Thanks for the vid bro.
I'm a nurse and has rotator cuff injury.had it ultrasound now diagnosed with Tendinosis 2/4 clusters on my right shoulder..
Hey how r u now ? Are u fully cured ? What was the treatment like ?
thank you for informations i have a tendon injury so it ll help me
Editor needs a noble prize
“Rehab by eccentric curls.” Well that’s how I injured it in the first place
smaller weight he means
I work in a a shop when we make wood structures for buildings. Swinging a 22oz hammer gave me a tendinitis. I wear now a support for my wrist and feels much better
If inflammation is part of the healing process, wouldn't it be bad then to take anti inflammatories?
My thoughts too
In a page about tendinitis i heard that is contradictory to do that, that you just make the problem longer.
@@juannunez4436 it is the bodies natural response for inflammation to occur I never think it should be suppressed unless necessary. For example an allergic reaction
right? it's like patients are smarter than doctors sometimes
Excellent video, explains everything with simple terms! The cartoons were very cool too! Bravo!
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lol, as if anyone has a “good orthopedic doctor”.
Jokes on you there are plenty out there
Unless you are wealthy, doctors aren’t willing to give you more than a couple minutes unless you are in critical condition. And specialist doctors cost a fortune even with insurance.
I went to an ENT doctor for acid reflux and he used a scope to evaluate my esophagus. It took two minutes, and after insurance was $400. I’m never going to a specialist again.
Regular people simply can’t afford the attention of specialist doctors.
I have spondylolisthesis in the lower back,i visited a doctor and he told me to "walk". No X-ray no nothing. Just told me to move and that cost me 50€.
After three more visits to quacks and talks of surgery(without even a real diagnosis!!!) i found an actual professional and self respecting doctor who not only diagnosed me properly but gave me the proper exercises to do.
There are many quacks out there it's ridiculous how many doctors don't know shit or are terrible at what they do. It's like dieticians,50% of them or more are obese. Go figure.
I've had horrible experience with orthopedic doctors. Theyve tended to diagnose things with utmost certainty and when u come back two months later and it's apparent they were wrong, they diagnosis it with certainty as something else. You're better off talking to a yogi that has studied the body or possibly a PT.
both lol and depression because true
I loved your way of explaining this.....
I subbed....hoping to see more of this rich content
I rather have tendons that hurts from too much activity rather than other unhealthy side effects from inactivity.
Anthony 1987 How about neither
Anthony 1987 Not worth it...Better to take 6 months or how ever long as it takes and get a bit unhealthy then to do permanent damage that will hurt for years and effect every day life. Plus for most people - they only have it in their upper body or lower body so they can just focus on other activities to stay fit.
The negative health effects of not being able to train properly for years due to injury are much worse then just resting for a short period of time.
Phenomenal explanation for dummies like me. Thanks.
I've got excited with a new preworkout recipe and for about 2 months I was spending over 1.5h at the gym during arm workout. The pump was really intense. But then I started feeling something popping in my elbow. First it was on the inside portion of my elbow but it went away in about 3 weeks. Then I started feeling some discomfort from what seemed to be the tennis player elbow injury and it kept getting worse until I couldn't do any exercise using my triceps, no matter what grip I tried. I took a break from upper body workouts for about 2 months and it still feeling the same. I wonder if there's a stretching exercise that can help with it? Thanks!
I'm in agony after increasing the weight on my dumbbells, been 6 weeks now, no improvement.
Rest and rehab. Look into theraband flexbar and hand rehab therapy balls.
Is your tendon problem cured?
@@lifeisoncenottwice4794 yes. I had to take it easy and avoid intense workouts but eventually it went away.
@@simracerone2218 good news
What about the nutrition? What to eat to help the healing process. My elbows are killing me from weight lifting. Cannot recover. Stoping the weight lifting is kind of a no go.
I liked the video, education for the non medical viewer. I also like that you use the word tendinopathy as true tendinitis actually doesn't happen. As far as the rehab concepts go, I'm gonna have to disagree with some of the things mentioned here. First don't massage a damaged tendon. Second, don't stretch a damaged tendon. Why stretch a structure that has micro tears in it? Third, go straight to a physical therapist instead of a orthopedist who will just send you to a PT. Save the money from the orthopedist trip and go straight to a good PT.
Respect bro! Stretching definitely a big no-no. Gentle massage I think is okay. PTs are the best people to see for sure though.
Healing tendons can form scar tissue so it is important you don't let that happen.after initial period of rest it is important to massage
Fantastic illustrations, great artwork!
Oof. I hurt my Achilles lifting and it was so painful that I couldn’t walk
I hurt my right elbow
Your videos and explanation are very useful. Thanks
how am i supposed to improve in lifting and running when my tendons need 6 months of rest everytime i increase the workload a teeny tiny bit :(
I have the same impatience🥺
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Thanks for this video! Its great to see the full explanation, and treatments in on quick, and easy to follow format! THANK YOU!
I ripped my ring finger tendon off and had a really fun operation
Taking collagen and stretching drastically helped my tendons injuries heal.
Is chronic tendinitis curable at all?
kenny mora yes. Chronic tendinitis or tendonosis is a non-inflammatory condition where the tendons structure fundamentally changes. The long rows of collagen fibers become disordered and are no longer in parallel (this orientation allows them to most efficiently distribute force).
A tendon can regain proper alignment of collagen, but this process takes a long time. Perhaps a year or more. That being said you can regain the majority of function before this. I’m simply talking about restoring the tendon to its original collagen orientation.
Josh Dowden thanks. I got injured in my groin and had a pop ever since I had pain there, eventually 9 months later after physical therapy my doctor said I have tendinitis and gave me a cortisone shot. It worked but it still hurts when I tighten my muscle and it hurts more after I play basketball. Any thoughts on what I should do? Like surgery or anything it’s been almost a year and I’m only 22 this feels like an old man injury lmaooo