Tendonitis Types
There Are Only 2

There are two different Tendonitis Types

Everywhere you look online you will find a singular definition of Tendonitis. Unfortunately, the common, simple definition of 'inflammation of a tendon' is incredibly useless.

The Tendonitis dynamic is a complex set of factors and it is important to understand that there are two different kinds of Tendonitis.

You can have it with actual tendon damage, or without.

Whether you knit, use a keyboard and mouse, or are a professional baseball pitcher, the Tendinitis dynamic is the same. However there are two distinctly different scenarios of pain that share that same dynamic.

Due to overuse, repetitive strain, or just normal daily use of our bodies, we can get wear and tear damage to the tendon and surrounding connective tissue.

Too much load on a tendon can cause it to fray. Nutritional deficiencies can make our tendon structure weaker than it should be. Overuse can cause micro damage from the wear and tear of the tendon sliding back and forth over various structures.

This damage causes the body to respond with an Inflammation Process that traps fluid in the area, releases chemicals which enhance your sensitivity to pain, and makes your muscles tighter.

This inflammatory response also sets you up to ongoing have more and more inflammation in the future.Pain, even debilitating pain, can result.

Due to over use, the beginnings of repetitive strain, and normal daily use of our bodies, our muscles get a little tighter, and a little tighter, and starts to stay tighter and tighter, even when we sleep.

As muscles get tight, they put tension on their tendons, attachment points, and surrounding connective tissue.

Because muscles get tight and stay tight, there is -constant- tension on the tendon(s). And then the connective tissue layers start to shrink wrap and compress the muscle structures.

Too much constant tension on a tendon causes it to send signals to the nervous system that there is too much load, and the potential for damage.

This damage danger signal causes the body to respond with an Inflammation Process that traps fluid in the area, releases chemicals which enhance your sensitivity to pain, and makes your muscles tighter.

This inflammatory response also sets you up to ongoing have more and more inflammation in the future.

Pain, even debilitating pain, can result.

You know you hurt. You know you’ve tried a lot of things, even methods that you doctor advised and prescribed.

But it is valuable to know that you can have pain, even debilitating pain, without that pain meaning that you are injured. Maybe you are. Maybe not. Your nervous system can’t tell the difference between the two. You may or may not be able to.

If you have pain from injury, there are things you can do to reverse the process and help you body heal. If you have pain without injury, there are things you can do to reverse the process. Interestingly enough, they are the same things to do for either situation.

And of course it makes sense that if you have pain but no injury, Tendonitis surgery probably won’t be one of those things that will help.

Consciously or unconsciously, we tend to think that all Tendonitis Symptoms are due to damage. This is not always the case.

In the end, there are only two Tendonitis Types.

With damage, and without.

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