Peroneal Tendonitis
July 10, 2007
What are the Peroneal Tendons? A band of tissue that connects the muscle to the bone is called a tendon. There are two peroneal tendons in the foot. They run behind the outer ankle bone and run side-by-side. One of the peroneal tendons is attached to the outer part of the mid foot and the other tendon runs under the foot and it attaches to the inside of the arch. The job of the peroneal tendons is to make sure that the foot and ankle are stable and to protect them from sprains of any sort.
The stress and pain can either be acute or chronic. Some common activities that can cause or contribute to peroneal tendonitis are running on uneven surfaces, tennis, basketball, hiking and skiing. In general any sport or activity that can stress or strain the tendons in your foot. also, older people are at a higher risk of developing the condition.
Tendonitis is when the tendons become inflamed and irritated. Most activities that involve recurring activities are at a greater risk of getting tendonitis. If you overuse the tendon or trauma, for example ankle strains the it becomes a bigger problem for the individual than it could have been.
Common symptoms associated with peroneal tendonitis can be:
- Pain and tenderness along the tendon, especially withing close proximity to the ankle and foot. This pain may be during or after exercise, or in severe cases at all times throughout the day.
- Stiffness of the foot
- Hard to stretch without feeling pain.
- Swelling around the tendon.
- A burning or hot feeling around the tendon.
- Pain at night and first thing in the morning.
If you are feeling any of these symptoms you should visit your primary care physician. Have you had problems like this, feel free to comment below.
Patellar Tendonitis
July 10, 2007
What is Patellar Tendonitis?
The kneecap and the shin bone are both connected together. The tendon that connects the kneecap and the shin bone together is called the patellar tendon. The part of the knee that this is called is the ‘extensor mechanism’. This is part of the knee and together with the quadriceps muscle and the quadriceps tendons, it allows our knee’s to stretch out, and it also provides us with strength to do this motion.
The nutrition that your tendon needs in the patellar is important. The patellar tendon is made of hard string-like bands, which are bounded by a vascular tissue lining and this provides the tendon with the nutrition they need.What causes patellar tendonitis?
As with most tendons in our body, there are many ways in which we can damage our tendons. The most common and easiest to get is when the tendon and tissues around the tendon, become inflamed and start to aggravate you. Because the patellar tendon is in our knee, there is a more likely chance that you could get tendonitis. The several ways in which you could get patellar tendonitis are due to overusing the knee and shin. This could be from doing jumping activities, for example, high jump or long jump, where you could land quite badly on your feet or knees. If you get patellar tendonitis from a jumping activity it is referred to as jumper’s knee. Another way would be if you were doing football and you get a kick on the kneecap or land badly on it and it could make it inflamed. If you have patellar tendonitis because of overuse of the tendon, patients usually are an active partaker in jumping activates such as basketball and volleyball. Jumping activities are not the only way you can get patellar tendonitis, but many people who actively take part in jumping activities, also got patellar tendonitis as well.
The cures for the tendonitis are just like any other type of tendonitis. Lots of rest and don’t put much pressure on the knee until you feel it is strong enough to be used again. A local anesthetic can be used to take pain out of the tendon for around 24-72 hours but natural recovery is often the most effective way to get back on your feet again in no time.
Knee Tendonitis
July 10, 2007
Another common injury of the tendons is known as Knee Tendonitis. It is tendonitis of the knee. It can be very painful for the casualty and cause the patient to rest without walking for a few days.
Your muscles are very influential in helping the movement of your joints. This is because the muscles are attached to your joints through issues in your body called the tendons. The tendons in your body use the force of your muscle and it crosses the joint and this is what causes the joint to move. This tendon is another of the tendons that can become damaged fairly easily. It can become inflamed if it is injured or overused. Common injuries to the tendon are if you take a hit to the thigh or if it is overused when doing exercises like running long distance or biking up steep hills.
If the tendon becomes inflamed then doctors will diagnose you with the condition called tendonitis. As you might have seen an ‘it is’ is added to the ending of the word ‘tendon’. If, in a rare circumstance your tendon tears in half, then you will be diagnosed with having a tendon rupture. A common sign of a tendon rupture is if you cannot straighten up your knee because there is severe pain over or around the tendon area. If this is the case then seek medical treatment straight away. If you do not get medical treatment straight away then it could be a very strong problem for your health. This is why we, as well as any doctor would recommend that you go to the hospital as soon as you get the chance, so that you can get your problem worked out. The pain that is caused from tendonitis is often an ache that is razor sharp from moving from a chair or from squatting down.
You can get rid of the pain by resting but it might only improve the pain and not heal it completely. If this is the case and the pain does not heal 100% it is a good idea, to get to a doctor’s office as soon as you possibly could. So that you do not get a worse injury, by not taking care of this small injury that you could be dangerously serious. The most well known tendon that is involved when having knee tendonitis is called the patellar tendon. It is also known as patellar tendonitis or jumper’s knee. The pain that is caused by having this injury is so bad that even having a bed sheet over the tendon can cause irritation and pain to you.
Foot Tendonitis
July 10, 2007
The Achilles tendon, the posterior tibial tendon, the anterior tibial tendon and the peroneal tendon are the four different tendons in your foot. Tendonitis can occur in any of the four tendons. Out of the four tendons in the foot, the most common tendon where tendonitis occurs is in the Achilles tendon. The Achilles tendon connects the biggest and major calf muscles in the back of the heel bone.
There are many ways of diagnosing Achilles tendonitis. The symptoms of the tendonitis are pain and softness anywhere along the back of the tendon, when you can only limit the flexibility of the ankle. There may be heat and redness over the tendon which is clear to see which could indicate to you that you have tendonitis. A growth over the tendon known as a nodule growth, it could form over the tendon. When you move the ankle a cracking sound might be heard or given out, which indicates tendonitis. The most common way of getting tendonitis is if the calf muscles are tight or tired. If you do a warm up for a sport event and don’t exercise the muscles properly. Overtraining or lots of running, especially hills or uneve ground can also cause the injury. Finally speed work and the type of running shoes you wear could be the difference between tendonitis or none tendonitis.
There are several treatments for tendonitis of the Achilles. The first and most obvious to people who have it would be to stop any sort of running that was done before picking up the injury. Take a medication of some sort, preferably aspirin or ibuprofen. Placing an ice pack over the area for 15-25 minutes several times a day to cool the area down and to subside the inflammation are other methods to use.
Oiling or massaging the area affected could also ease the pain. Semicircles of rubbing oil into the area are a technique that many top physical therapists use. Do this three times a day and keep the oil away from the knotted tissue and it should help ease the pain and keep doing this until the area has healed. Once the nodule growth is gone, you can stretch off the calf muscles. Whatever you fell like, don’t start the running again until you can do a little experiment called toe raises again without any sort of pain affecting you. After this you can start jumping through skipping ropes and jumping jacks, and then gradually pick up the running again. Once the nodule is gone, stretch the calf muscles. Don’t start running again until you can do toe raises again without pain. Next, move on to skipping rope, then jumping jacks and gradually begin running again.