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A VERY HIGH PERCENTAGE OF OUR CLIENTS HAVE:
- Accelerated the Healing Rate of their Tendon Injury
- Decreased Their Tendonitis Pain Quickly and Significantly
- Increased their Range of Motion (ROM) in the Joint(s) affected by Tendonitis (reduction of atrophy)
- Decreased the Incidence of Overcompensation Injuries
- Decreased their Chance of Re-Injury by Healing More Completely & Quickly (less scar tissue).
Healing Tendonitis
Regardless of what tendonitis you may be suffering from (knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, ankle), the treatment stages are the same. The location of the treatment is wherever the inflamed tendon may be.
Step 1: Reduce Initial Tendon Inflammation
Inflammation is the body's natural response to a tendon injury and is a
normal part of the healing process. Swelling, pain, heat sensation, redness, and loss of function are the main symptoms experienced with inflammation and it is your body's way of telling you there is something wrong.
Most people know already that the combination of rest, topical pain relief cream and the use of a Cold Compress or Ice Pack (when there is swelling) is the gold standard in medicine for minimizing tissue damage and reducing inflammation after a soft tissue injury (soft tissue = tendons, muscles, ligaments). It serves as a critical starting point before continuing into the next phase of the healing process. The other treatment I would personally add to this is Laser and PEMF (pulsed electromagnetic field therapy) therapy as soon as possible after the initial injury. This in combination with the old gold standard can escalate the healing process to a new standard - I call the platinum standard.
Step 2: Enhance Blood Flow to the Injured Tendon and Surrounding Muscles & Ligaments
Tendons,ligaments, cartilage, and some muscle fibres are considered dense soft tissue. As a result, they naturally receive limited blood flow and this is precisely why injuries to these tissues take so long to heal. Knowing that enhanced blood flow is a critical necessity for accelerated healing of soft tissue, the challenge becomes this: How do you effectively increase blood flow to dense soft tissue (tendons) that normally receives very little blood flow?
The first step is to facilitate vasodilation of the local blood vessels to bring more blood and oxygen to the affected tissues. Class 4 lasers as well as higher power class3b lasers have had thousands of medical studies to show this as a stimulatory effect they have on tissue. Lasers also create angiogenesis which is the physiological process through which new blood vessels form from pre-existing vessels, formed in the earlier stage of vasculogenesis. Angiogenesis continues the growth of the vasculature by processes of sprouting and splitting. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiogenesis )
Rigorous exercise is out of the question as it will lead to further injury.
Heating pads merely provide a surface heat and do not effectively penetrate into the dense tissues.
Ice reduces swelling but also restricts blood flow in many cases.
Therapy is helpful, but that only happens a couple of times a week. There are a couple of places I would recommend in Reno: www.galenasport.com and https://renosportnspine.com/services. These would be adjunct to the Laser Therapy and complementary.
It is through the blood the body carries the nutrients, oxygen, and antibodies that injured tendons (and surrounding soft tissue) need to repair and rebuild. Research shows that (PEMF) electromagnetic energy like our system ( curatron.net ) is a very effective treatment for stimulating blood flow to dense soft tissue such as tendons, ligaments, muscles, and even portions of cartilage. This dramatically improves the healing process.
We utilize the latest in electromagnetic therapy equipment to treat these conditions. The most important factors in selecting the equipment for treatment is the intensity range available and the types of wavelengths available - these will determine the effectiveness of treatments. Good equipment will cost thousands and even tens of thousands of dollars. Weaker equipment can help but takes hours a day to facilitate change.
When you are suffering from a tendon injury, there is reduced blood flow to the injury site. Inflammation and reduced movement (lack of activity or on-going immobility) will reduce the flow of blood - and if you think about it, this makes sense. Moving the joint(s) where you have tendonitis is very painful - so it is very common for tendonitis sufferers to have significantly reduced mobility. Over time, reduced movement leads to atrophy - a shortening of muscles, tendons and ligaments of the joint. Due to this - as your tendon heals - you run a high risk of straining your muscles and tendons as they have become shortened due to lack of use. This leads to a high risk of strain and re-injury, possibly putting you into a chronic soft tissue injury cycle.
Electromagnetic energy is an energy waveform that is absorbed by dense tissue (muscles, tendons, ligaments) and absorbed much less by low density tissue (fat cells, skin). Absorption of this energy translates to heat, and the body increases blood flow due to vaso-dilation to the area as a response to the heat. This increased blood flow speeds up the healing process, clearing the area of toxins and excess fluid build up, thereby reducing inflammation.
Step 3: Recognize That Healing Takes Time and is a Process
With a commitment, the right tools, and the right information, you will achieve your goal of a sustainable recovery. An approach of cold compression therapy, physical therapy, and Laser with PEMF will help you heal and be on the road to pain free as fast as possible.
We get asked all the time - "Why is it important to heal Tendons quickly"?
Once a tendon becomes irritated and inflamed, recovery time is lengthy, requiring a reduction in activity for a long period of time to allow the tendon to heal. This is why many chronic (long term) tendonitis sufferers start having muscle atrophy and range of motion issue in the affected joint. An inflamed tendon will often start causing inflammation in nearby areas, and your immobile joint will begin to lose more flexibility as unused muscles shorten over time (atrophy), leaving you more prone to restraining of the tendon and nearby muscles. This is why it is important to heal your tendon as quickly as possible - you need to avoid the vicious cycle of decreased Range of Motion and re-injury that will occur with chronic (long term) tendonitis.
If you have an injured tendon, it's very important to heal it quickly and completely. Minimizing the healing time should be an obvious goal, as a serious tendon injury will assuredly limit your ability to go about your daily routine. "Not all tendon injuries start out serious. But often the small tendon injuries can lead to a worsening injury, joint damage and disability if left untreated. And having a tendon injury - even a minor one - makes it more likely that you'll have similar injuries in the future."
(Knee Pain: MayoClinic.com. 29 Mar. 2013. )
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