Tendinopathy Treatment: Where is the Evidence?

Clinics in Sports Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 329-350

  Skjong, Christian C ^a   Meininger, Alexander K ^b   Ho, Sherwin S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Moab Regional Specialty Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Overuse injury; Running athlete; Tendinitis; Tendinopathy

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; APROTININ; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PIROXICAM; PLACEBO; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; POLIDOCANOL; SCLEROSING AGENT; SOMATOMEDIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ACHILLES TENDINITIS; ACHILLES TENDON RUPTURE; ANALGESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; DEBRIDEMENT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG SAFETY; ECCENTRIC EXERCISE; ELBOW EPICONDYLOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPICONDYLITIS; EXERCISE; EXTRACORPOREAL LITHOTRIPSY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PAIN; PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PROLOTHERAPY; REVIEW; RUNNING; SCLEROTHERAPY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELANGIECTASIA; TENDINITIS; TENDOSCOPY; TENNIS ELBOW; TENOTOMY; THROMBOCYTE RICH PLASMA; TRAINING; TREATMENT DURATION; VARICOSIS;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PAIN MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; RUNNING; TENDINOPATHY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856839171     PISSN: 02785919     EISSN: 1556228X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csm.2011.11.003     Document Type: Review

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