Tendinopathy Introduction: Start Here
Key learning points:
Tendinitis is an overused outdated term as we know inflammation doesn’t drive the pathology. We now call these conditions ‘tendinopathy.
A tendon attaches muscle to bone. The big 3 in the lower limb are the achillies, patellar, and gluteal tendons.
There’s a big difference between a normal tendon and a pathological tendon.
Tendon degeneration does not affect the whole tendon but rather a section of it. The degeneration is surrounded by normal tendon.
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