What can cause tendinitis?

Activities that can cause tendinitis include daily household tasks such as cleaning or gardening, but they also be caused by certain sports where there is a repetitive impact to the muscles, for example running, tennis or golf. If you work in an office, you may even be susceptible to tendinitis if you have poor posture while sat at your desk, or if you’re spending more time at your computer using the mouse and keyboard than usual. This type of injury can also be referred to as repetitive strain injury. If you have tendinitis you will typically experience pain around the area of the tendon, especially when moving the joint. You may also experience a grating sensation when you move the joint, or a degree of swelling if the injury is very new.

How we treat tendinitis in the clinic

Here at the clinic, our first approach would be to work on the muscle using our therapies in a specific way. Targeting the muscle with vibration therapy can help with blood circulation and stimulating the area to improve the healing, bringing blood circulation can significantly help the rate of healing especially in cases of tendinitis. Our K-Laser therapy can also work hand-in-hand with vibration therapy, using laser-light technology to target the injury at the level of the cells. Laser-light therapy begins to help by speeding up the cell activity within the damaged cells, bringing with it increased blood circulation and the development of new blood vessels. The increase in circulation brings with it nutrients that help to regenerate the area, it can also help to reduce any swelling, inflammation and pain. The warming effect the laser produces as it is working away can also be soothing on the area, so you can be completely at ease while this fast and effective treatment gets underway. All these reactions to the treatment are all natural responses that your body would have when it experiences an injury, but the stimulation from the K Laser will help your body to produce these responses much faster and much more efficiently, so that you can experience a more complete healing with less scar tissue formation, and prevent any risk of relapse.

It’s important to understand the medium term approach to tendinitis

As you’re undergoing treatment, or perhaps you’ve been suffering with a tendinitis injury for awhile and the pain is finally subsiding, it’s really important to avoid diving straight into your favourite sport or the activity that caused the injury in the first place. Although the area is healing it’s still compromised and requires careful rehabilitation to make sure it doesn’t come back worse than before. At this point, very gentle stretching can be re-introduced in order to help regain strength and mobility. It’s very important to begin strengthening the structures around the injury so that more delicate areas of your body such as the joints in your elbow and knee can be well supported. When your body is healing, there tends to be a ‘dumping’ of valuable nutrients to your body such as collagen fibres into the area where the tendon is damaged. By introducing stretching at this point, it will help to realign these fibres so that it can regain its strength. Doing these stretches at the same time as undergoing laser therapy can also help this process to move along much quicker, prevent scar tissue from forming, and achieve a more complete healing so that you come back from the injury much stronger – rather than having a recovery that is fraught with relapses of pain or discomfort.

So if you’re suffering with tendinitis, whether it’s a new or old injury, and you’re based in the London area, give us a call at the clinic to discuss your case or feel free to drop us an email and talk to us about your condition to see if we can help you. If you’re not based in the London area and you’re struggling to find someone to help you, we hope this guide has been helpful to you. Remember the most important thing is to avoid stretching while the injury is fresh and rehabilitate very slowly as you start to feel like the injury is beginning to heal. If you would like to discuss your case you can call our expert team on 0203 947 3222 or email us with some information about your injury at info@themayfairclinic.com.