Tendonitis
Basics
Description
Description
- The term “tendinitis” has been used to describe chronic painful tendon injuries before the underlying pathology was fully understood. The terms “tendinosis” or “tendinopathy” should be used instead to describe most chronic tendon disorders lasting >3 mo. This confusion has led to false belief that inflammation is the central etiology, when in reality most tendinopathies are not caused by inflammation but by a failed healing response to trauma or overuse
- Overuse syndrome:
- Clinical Syndrome of chronic pain and tendon thickening
- Synovial cells increase in thickness
- Excess synovial fluid collection
- Constant irritation
- If no further injury occurs, the acute process may last from 48 hr to 2 wk
Etiology
Etiology
- Mechanical overload or repetitive microtrauma to the musculotendinous unit:
- Intrinsic factors:
- Inflexibility
- Muscle weakness or imbalance
- Extrinsic factors:
- Excessive deviation, frequency, or activity
- Intrinsic factors:
- In tendinopathies the collagen is in a state of disrepair with proliferation and chronic irritation of neurovascular repair tissue in the tendon and its linings
- Chemotactic and vasoactive chemical mediators are released leading to vasodilatation and cellular edema, increasing the number and activity of PMNs in the tissue
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Citation
Schaider, Jeffrey J., et al., editors. "Tendonitis." 5-Minute Emergency Consult, 6th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2020. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307165/all/Tendonitis.
Tendonitis. In: Schaider JJJ, Barkin RMR, Hayden SRS, et al, eds. 5-Minute Emergency Consult. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2020. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307165/all/Tendonitis. Accessed December 1, 2024.
Tendonitis. (2020). In Schaider, J. J., Barkin, R. M., Hayden, S. R., Wolfe, R. E., Barkin, A. Z., Shayne, P., & Rosen, P. (Eds.), 5-Minute Emergency Consult (6th ed.). Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307165/all/Tendonitis
Tendonitis [Internet]. In: Schaider JJJ, Barkin RMR, Hayden SRS, Wolfe RER, Barkin AZA, Shayne PP, Rosen PP, editors. 5-Minute Emergency Consult. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2020. [cited 2024 December 01]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/5-Minute_Emergency_Consult/307165/all/Tendonitis.
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