Mark Hurworth (Orthopedic Surgeon) and Ian Dowley (Senior Physiotherapist) discuss ‘The Anxious Tendon’ - Approaching tendinopathy treatment as a anxiety disorder of a tendon.
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Tendinopathy or tendinitis is an extremely common condition often caused by unaccustomed overuse and the resulting breakdown of tendon fibres. It has been termed the “mid-life crisis of a tendon” by researches Luk, Tsang and Leung in 2014, and is most commonly seen in the aging population. Here we will review the current research to find out what treatments help, and which treatments might be potentially harmful.
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Tendinopathy (formerly called tendinitis) is a condition that is commonly linked to age-related changes in tendon health and function. It is a prevalent, debilitating and often slow healing condition and so the widespread hunt to find a supplement that improves tendon health seems justified. Most research into tendon health focuses on treatments for tendinopathy rather than prevention of tendon degeneration.
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