Keywords Achilles tendon, tendinopathy, tendinosis, tendinitis, eccentric exercise

Objective: The objective of this paper was to describe a surgical technique for the management TA tendinosis: Debridement, repair, and augmentation with suture anchor without tendon transfer. Methods: This is retrospective case series including five patients managed surgically tendinosis. If ≥ 30% healthy remains after debridement, augmented anchor, incorporating as acheckrein. Patient outcomes...

OBJECTIVE Workplace studies have linked hand/wrist tendinosis to forceful and repetitive hand exertions, but the associations are not consistent. We report findings from a prospective study of right wrist tendinosis among blue-collar workers. METHODS Workers (N=413) at four industries were followed for 28 months with questionnaires and physical examinations every 4 months to identify incident...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of ultrasound guided dry needling and autologous blood injection for the treatment of patellar tendinosis. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Hospital/clinic based. PATIENTS 47 knees in 44 patients (40 men, 7 women, mean age 34.5 years, age range 17 to 54 years) with refractory tendinosis underwent sonographic examination of the patellar tendon fol...

OBJECTIVES To identify and characterise nerve fibres and inflammatory alterations in painful Achilles tendinosis and thus gain evidence about the origin of pain in Achilles tendinosis. METHODS The composition of 10 tendon samples from patients with a prior history of painful Achilles tendinosis and 10 samples from patients with spontaneously ruptured tendons but no previous pain was compared ...

Background: Tendinosis is a painful chronic, degenerative condition characterized by objective changes in the tissue structure of a tendon. Hallmark features in tendinosis tendons include increased number of cells (hypercellularity), extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation and disorganized collagen. The progression of these pathological changes seen in tendinosis is neither well characterized no...

BACKGROUND The endogenous cannabinoid system is involved in the control of pain. However, little is known as to the integrity of the cannabinoid system in human pain syndromes. Here we investigate the expression of the cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB₁) in human Achilles tendons from healthy volunteers and from patients with Achilles tendinosis. METHODOLOGY Cannabinoid CB₁ receptor immunoreactivity...

Tendinosis is a troublesome clinical entity affecting many active people. Its treatment remains a challenge to sports medicine clinicians. The etiopathophysiology of tendinosis has not been well delineated. The known pathophysiology and the recent advances in the understanding of the etiologic process of tendinosis are discussed here, including new concepts in mechanotransduction and the bioche...