What is Tendonitis?
You Got It.
You Don't Want It.
Ahhhh, TENDONITIS.
What is Tendonitis, you ask? Well, first off, spelling-wise it's the same thing as TENDINITIS. Same thing, different spelling. You know Tendonitis hurts. You know it is keeping you from doing what you want to do. You know it’s not going away all by itself. You wish it would. What you don’t know is how to get rid of it. Or you would have already. Imagine how mysterious fire must have been long ago, before we knew how to make it. Once we discovered how to start a fire, it became extremely simple. Tendinitis is just like that. Once you know how to deal with it, it’s no big deal. It is amazing what you can do with the RIGHT information. Let's start examining this thing we call Tendinitis.
What is Tendonitis? Let's Define It.
So what is Tendonitis? Dictionaries, including the American Heritage Dictionary, define tendonitis as: Tendonitis: (těn'də-nī'tĭs) n. Inflammation of a tendon. That certainly is short, succinct, and to the point. But not really helpful to you. What is Tendonitis? - Here's another way of defining tendinitis that actually contains some useful information. Tendonitis: (ten done nigh tiss) n. 1. A pain causing condition that does not get better on its own. 2. Caused by a combination of wear-and-tear, inflammation, and the human body's slightly misguided healing mechanism. 3. Everybody gets it to some degree or other. Those are all important things to know. What may be REALLY helpful for you to know is that the causes of Tendinitis are simple, and the solutions are simple. You just need to discover what they are.
What is Tendonitis? Are There Different Types?
Another important concept to understand is that the only -real- difference in the Types of Tendinitis is the location that you hurt.
There are no 'types' of Tendonitis, there is only Tendonitis found in different locations. For instance, Golfers Elbow (page to be added),
Tennis Elbow,
Plantar Fasciitis (page to be added) and Rotator Cuff Tendonitis (page to be added) are all the exact same Tendinitis, just in different locations.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
may or may not be Tendinitis depending on how you look at it. The root cause of Tendinitis, the dynamic, is the same. Each kind of Tendinitis has (or will soon have) its own link in the navigation bar at the left side of every page. It is important for you to know that all 'types' of Tendinitis share the same
Pain Causing Dynamic.
It is valuable to know that regardless of the 'type' of Tendonitis you are experiencing, giving your painful hotspot(s) a period of
Rest
may temporarily lessen the pain, but it will neither cure you, fix your Tendonitis, nor make the problem go away.
By the time you hurt, the Pain Causing Dynamic is already firmly in place. There are many instigating causes of Tendonitis. For a list and a brief conversation about causes, see
Tendonitis Causes
Tendonitis DOES NOT show up on an x-ray. Not in your shoulder, not in your wrist, not at your elbow, knee, or ankle.
What is Tendonitis?
This Is Tendonitis!
Tendonitis is a structural injury. Much more than just Inflammation
of a tendon, here is an explanation that more accurately defines Tendonitis.1. All the fibers of a strong structure (Tendon) run the same direction. 2. When injured, either through trauma or wear-and-tear, some of these fibers break/rip/tear. 3. The body kicks in a
Process of Inflammation,
which traps fluid in the area and releases chemicals which make you extra-sensitive to pain -and- has the body tighten muscles. 4. Scar Tissue is the same kind of protein fiber as the original tissue but it lays down in a variety of directions to heal 'fast'. 5. These 'non-aligned' fibers make the structure less strong than it was pre-injury. 6. Then it takes less and less to re-injure the structure. The nervous system get more reactive and tries more and more to protect you by making muscles tighter and tighter. This puts more torque/strain on the structurally weakened structure. 7. Every time one of those non-aligned fibers tears or breaks off, the body reads that as an injury and kicks in more inflammation process. 8. Return to #2 and repeat over and over as the days, weeks, and months pass. If the only problem with Tendinitis was 'inflammation', it wouldn't be the national epidemic that it is. Inflammation is easy to deal with. Are you ready to heal your Tendonitis? There is an all too familiar story of the usual history of this injury. It sounds something like "I first had some pain in my wrist from (insert activity here) so I took a couple ibuprofen and took a day off. The pain was gone, I didn't think anything about it, then a few days later it was back. Then continued for several months, and now I am in considerable pain and it won't go away. As soon as I start to (activity) it hurts even more and can even become so intense that nothing helps it. Then I decided that I might have a real problem and I should see somebody about it." Sound familiar?
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