How to treat tendinitis

Don’t think that tendonitis is a serious disease. In fact, tendonitis is very common in life. Tendons are the medium that connects bones and muscles in the human body. If they are overused in life, tendon strain will occur. If it is serious, it can lead to tendon rupture and tendonitis, which is something everyone should pay attention to. It is especially easy to cause during exercise.

If you encounter tendinitis, you should know how to treat it, which is the best protection for your body. When tendinitis occurs, patients will feel severe pain, and some patients may even be unable to bear it and go into shock.

Conventional treatment

Conventional treatment For emergency treatment of tendinitis, doctors and physical therapists recommend the RICE method (rest, cool, heat, and elevation). Aspirin and ibuprofen can also be used to help reduce inflammation and pain. Ultrasound and sauna therapy relax muscles and tendons, improve circulation, and promote healing. Occasionally, corticosteroids are used.

Your physical therapist may also suggest an exercise plan to help rest the tendon while maintaining the function of nearby muscle groups and overall strength, and you can only slowly and gradually build up the tendon's own strength. Your training program may include fun exercises, slowly increasing the number of times you use the injured area, and stopping as soon as pain occurs. You can also do some easy stretching exercises several times a day.

Surgery

Treatment: For some patients, especially when adhesions occur, if the above treatments are ineffective, surgical treatment may be considered. The narrow tendon sheath is cut longitudinally and a small strip of the tendon sheath is removed, thereby eliminating the source of pain.

Disadvantages: severe trauma, great pain, and long recovery period.

Family treatment

Use RICE therapy. The main thing about rest is to remember not to use the injured joints, especially not to do actions that may cause joint damage. If you don’t have ice packs on hand, use bags of frozen vegetables instead. It is best to wrap the injured area with a sports bandage, but not too tight to avoid causing pain. Elevation reduces blood pressure in the injured area by placing the ankle on a bench or raising the elbow on the back of a chair.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

Tendonitis Tendonitis is commonly known as "pulse fossa wind" and belongs to the category of "strain" in traditional Chinese medicine. Patients will feel varying degrees of pain, numbness, stiffness, swelling and other symptoms in the joints. Usually the feeling of morning joint stiffness is most obvious after getting up, and the symptoms will not be significantly relieved with frequent activities. Sihuatang believes that the pain is caused by "Qi stagnation and blood stasis", "Qi hurts the pain, and the body hurts the swelling". The meridians are injured by external forces, resulting in obstruction of the meridians, disorder of Qi and blood circulation, and poor circulation. Tendon ointment is a famous prescription for treating tendonitis in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It draws on the essence of traditional Chinese orthopedics and has miraculous efficacy. Tendon ointment has the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, promoting qi and relieving pain. It can quickly eliminate pain, effectively improve the microcirculation of tissues around the affected tendon, fundamentally cut off the pathogenesis, repair tendon tissue, and restore normal joint function, thereby achieving the purpose of completely curing tendonitis.

Through this article’s introduction to how to treat tendonitis, I believe you can learn more about tendonitis. There is a high chance that tendonitis will occur during sports. If the exercise is too intense, it is easy to cause tendonitis, so everyone must pay attention to the measurement when exercising.