My tendon will heal in 36 hours whether it likes it or not.

I have hypermobility, which means tendon injuries are just the norm for me. I'm usually juggling 2-3 different tendon injuries at a time. What I've learned over the years is that *you must rest it for the first week, especially the first 2-3 days*, I cannot stress this enough. Injuries I've rested for at least a week have resolved themselves typically in a month or two. Injuries I didn't allow to rest, have nagged me for years.

Isometrics if the pain is too intense for reps. Eccentrics, fast reps at submaximal loads, and heavy slow resistance in the 15rep max range eventually working up to a 6rep max. I've healed tendinosis in both knees, both triceps and my left forearm with these techniques. Hope this helps someone in need. Check comment section for some useful info.

i love how almost 0% of bodybuilding videos mention nothing about tendons

Believe me, the first ever video I loved about biology. Your way of conveying the education is great.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS IS BY FAR THE MOST INFORMATIVE INFORMATION ABOUT TENDON INJURIES ON THE INTERNET. I have been having elbow issues since I started doing push days twice a week and I couldn't figure out what was going on. This video explained everything, thank you

Thanks for basic clarification of tendon, ligament and fascia. Been in sports all my life-knew the basic mechanics and purpose, but reinforcement always important. Now onward to strengthen my elbow and shoulder to avoid injury for climbing.

Why did this video magically appear on my KZfaq list? When I’ve had tendonitis recently

Thanks for simplifying things and making it easy to understand what's needed for recovery

I have watched Jill Cook talk about tendinitis and her research suggests that about 25% of us have bad pathology in our tendons but only some of those people will experience pain. She also suggested that you probably can’t cure bad pathology but that even in such a tendon there is enough good pathology that you should be able to keep working the tendons and carefully putting a measured load on them to strengthen them. As a laymen I keep watching videos and looking for corroborating evidence and while some of it overlaps, a lot of it doesn’t seem to or requires me to make assumptions that I’m not qualified to make… I really wish this was easier, I don’t want to have to study it officially, I just want a basic, working understanding that I can be confident in applying to myself.

I find that doing good warm up and focusing on eccentric part of the exercise is always important to prevent injury and if you fell injured just take a few days off, and restart with conditioning exercises and low load and when you start back again focus more on eccentric and that should help.

I just found this video after getting over some bad tendonitis from arm wrestling after my bicep workout. I found that a day or two of rest while taking anti-inflammatories and then working back up slowly and with lowered weights and higher weights really helped me out. Some forearm exercises with high reps instantly made any of my pain go away and I'm actually back stronger than I was before. Using those rehabilitory exercises have become a routine now for preventive measures.

I am currently doing rehab right now and the change of pace is not easy, but necessary. My repetitive strain on the shoulders over the years of resistance training, boxing, bodyweights and yoga has taken its toll. It is such a frustrating place to be in but humbling as well. A lesson in life.

1:46 "You have tendinitis! 50 Euros please!"

What really helps strengthening your tendons is to take 20-40mg of collagen protein powder daily. In recent studies it has been shown that by ingesting extra collagen every day it drastically increases your tendons density as well as your bone density. I‘m taking it for a few weeks now and hadn’t any joint pain anymore.

Best video on Tendons & Tendinitis i've seen so far, thx for making it!

Finally someone who tells me why do my tendons hurt after doing a ton of exercise, i hope its not to late to stop puting strees on my tendons until they heal, because i just kept excercising and hurting myself more

Tendons, I've found heal somewhat opposite to the way that muscles do. While the best way to repair and heal muscle is mainly rest, the best way to keep your tendons healthy and healing is with movement or exercise. Not lifting heavy weights but using things like resistance bands an high reps with low weights help a ton to keep them healthy.

Short and simple, just perfect!

Tendons are very little vasculated,meaning very little blood vessels are going there thus tendons get very little nutrition and process of recovery is extremely slower than in muscles. To speed up injuries,i've always used the method of stretching and doing light exercises and using creams that cause localized vasodilatation(spreading blood vessels),all this is to increase the blood pumping in the tendons and bringing new nutrition needed for recovery. I've had the tendonitis of lat and rotator(m teres minor to be exact) for 2-3 months,after using all these methods,it recovered in 2 weeks(i've used elastic band and with it i did rear delt exercises and shoulder dislocations)

I liked this video. I'm currently studying for a diploma in Sports and Exercise. One of my tutors does Anatomy and Physiology classes, and I've learned some stuff on the muscular system and Tendons and how they relate to exercise. But, I've learned just a few more things from this video. I like it 👍👌

I lifted weights for over 12 years and never had an issue with tendonitis but my first year of climbing there were days were I could barely drive back home due to pain on the inside of my elbow. After 5 years of climbing, I still get issues with pain on my inner elbows and finger tendon pain due to tears. My best treatment is rest for 1 to 3 months, but now I can take more load on my tendons plus my fingers got thicker,

0:05 Simon Chipmunk saying "Tendon Basics"

Thank you so much for your help and support.

I've been on keto for 45 days now and my lifelong tendonitis is nearly non-existent. Cut out suger and you wont have inflammation. As a climber I was constantly aggravating my bicep and elbow tendonitis. Now I can actually train hard with no pain, crazy.

I have a tendon injury and you helped me a lot to understand what was happening. Thank you.

Superb video. Not one unnecessary word; just the facts, delivered very well with great, engaging graphics. Thank you. 👍👏👏

I'm a Physical Therapist Assistant and I can confirm that this is 1000% correct!

Why did this guy just gloss over "permanently injured tendon"? Thats what we're all worried about, so dive right in chief

It should be referred to as tendinopathy rather than tendinitis. Terms ending in 'itis' refer to conditions associated with inflammation. Inflammation isn't the main factor here and these anti-inflammatory cures that people are suggesting won't cure tendinopathy. The issue is that the tendon is being asked to take more load than it can handle without being gradually trained up to do so. If the load the tendon is being asked to take is too great and it isn't given enough time to repair itself, it gradually breaks down. The tendon needs to be slowly re-trained and reloaded to allow it to strengthen while having enough repair time between exercise sessions. Taking an anti-inflammatory is not going to cure the root cause, which is that the tendon has been worn down, not the associated inflammation. Eccentric exercises with low load are a good place to start, then progress onto heavier exercise which can be both eccentric + concentric. Use pain as a guide for the amount of load, if the morning or evening after doing exercises you are in pain above 4 out of 10, then decrease the load or reps that you are doing. Anti-inflammatories can provide symptomatic relief, but if you return to the same intensity activities that caused the pain in the first place, you'll likely have it re-occur.

Fell while playing soccer and damaged my tendon for a while. Every competition I participated in had massive stiffness after. I slowed down and it’s all healed now.

Been lying down for 5 months unable to walk sit or stand without searing pain. Had to do this through horrible living conditions. This video helped me understand what principles occur with the body. I need to be taken care of not forced to be living on my own, I must immobilize myself properly by doing this. Problem is that my head can't take lying down anymore, I have a headache from how much my brain has pressure against the back of my head. I'm getting myself to a place with a reliably heated pool ASAP so that I can stand ( I can stand easily in 5 ft of water) as much as possible before finally going home ready to lie down for a long time.

I was looking for Tendon Tempura... not what expected... BTW Tendon Tempura is the best way to eat tempura!

That was awesome animation, as far as I'm concerned.

You should only do eccentric exercises towards the end of rehab, start with isometric exercises then progress to concentric and finally eccentric. Starting with eccentric like this video said can lead to worsening the injury.

Ligamentous injuries like sprained ankles can take a very long time to heal properly which is mostly due to the fact that they don’t have a very good blood supply. So you can speed up the healing process by increasing blood supply to your ankle and foot. One of the best ways to do this would be putting warm, moist heat on the area as often as you can. Moist heat will penetrate the tissue at least 2 inches deep and will increase blood flow to the area. Heat combined with a slight elevation and a gas pedal motion of the foot (dorsi/plantar flexion) will be fantastic for the healing process. This gas pedal motion will help pump blood and lymph out of the foot via the Soleus muscle which is primarily responsible for pumping blood back up to the heart.

The doctor looks like a coach

Wtf is this omniscient noise soundtrack, had me looking back in my chair the entire video.

It is mentioned in video that fascia connects muscle to muscle, but the plantar fascia, starts from calceneus towards the toe i.e. connecting muscle to bone.

The sound effects of healing tendons was awesome along with everything else.

I never searched related things anywhere online but KZfaq knows I’m injured. IT KNOWS

I did bicep curls really hard and couldn't extend my arms fully the next day. I think it was acute tendonitis, (always check with a professional). But tbh it doesn't hurt now, so I take that as my tendons getting stronger and gains.

Nice vid! I struggled against a tendinopathy on my achilles for 1 yr... now I'm cured... but it was the worst injury in 10yrs running...

i am suffering from tendinities almost a year now,i think it will stuck with me till the end

Great Video!

Planche : Let's play with the Tendons!

Thank you for this! I always ask my doctor to explain things thoroughly but time is an element in short supply!

i worked through the pain for armwrestling and it helped, after about 6 months of training and always aching serious pain in the brachi tendon in both arms it went away slowly but surely

Great video, very informative

I was an RN, this is very well done. I’m going to subscribe.

This is great advice. I have golfers elbow. Heat and eccentric curls were the only thing that helped it heal. I've literally been dealing with it off and on for 15 years. Very frustrating.

Incredible how you managed to fit this amount of information, in such an engaging short video. Thank you for this!

Tendinitis since almost a year to my shoulders, it has gone down to my left forearm around 6 months ago and it's slowly reaching the right one too. It hurts as hell every time I do some exercises so I had to change them with similar exercises that permit more freeness of the wrist so it hurts way less (or even don't hurt at all). I did a few months break and it went away, then got it back by swimming with friends at the beach... this shit just won't go away, no matter if I let it heal it will come again once I start training or doing anything a bit intense so I'll just live with it.

no wonder it took 6 months for my Achilles to feel normal again... I was told a month or 2 by a doctor… but damn… 6 long months... amazin

I was doing curls super fast. Then was in pain. Couldn't curl with that arm or do anything. Took for ever to heal. Like 3 months. Lost so much muscle. Definitely warn up and take your time lifting weights

When I started rock climbing I had elbow tendonitis/tendonosis from day 1 (well actually day 3, the second time I went climbing). No matter what I did I couldn't get rid of it. Extended period of not climbing (3-6 months) didn't help. Increasing time between sessions didn't help. Reducing intensity of climbing sessions didn't help. Nothing I tried seemed to help until one day I started deadhanging from bar multiple times a day. This fixed my issue in less than 1 month and now I climb all the time, as much as I want, for as long as I can. Key take away I guess is don't stop trying things and if something doesn't work keep looking for other things.

The weird thing for me is that, when I don’t work out or do any physical activity, my tendons hurt more than they did before. On the contrary, when I work out more while being more physically active, my tendons have virtually no pain in a few weeks.

“...yet if the tendon is repeatedly strained so that the rate of degradation exceeds that of regeneration...” lol - he liked saying that 😄

Excellent video, explains everything with simple terms! The cartoons were very cool too! Bravo!

Thanks for this video! Its great to see the full explanation, and treatments in on quick, and easy to follow format! THANK YOU!

Do band work with small bands targeting tendon until it burns like a mf 2-4 times a week before workout. Like 100 reps+ curls, tricep extension, should be easy af, not heavy resistance. You can do this for all body parts, best way to warm up. Also change exercise causing the issue, sometimes just different grip and do lighter weights as needed. Tendons will get stronger and will be able to handle all your strength gains in the future. Just keep up band work. Also get a collagen supplement, its like protein powder for the joints yo ;) Good luck! I've cured my tendon issues doing this btw.

Will taking collagen supplements help tendonitis ??

This video made me instantly feel my tendons

the pain is from muscle imbalances: the stabalizers. especially gripping the weight with a weak grip. do rotation exercises in the arms and legs. hold a light weight out from the body and instead of doing a curl you rotate from left to right with a slight stretch. same with legs. the goal is to strengthen those small stabilizers. you should feel relief in minutes.

“Rehab by eccentric curls.” Well that’s how I injured it in the first place

Wdym rest for a week, I clock in at 3💀💀

this channel is a goldmine

Wonderful wish there was more videos like this on YT.

I've got excited with a new preworkout recipe and for about 2 months I was spending over 1.5h at the gym during arm workout. The pump was really intense. But then I started feeling something popping in my elbow. First it was on the inside portion of my elbow but it went away in about 3 weeks. Then I started feeling some discomfort from what seemed to be the tennis player elbow injury and it kept getting worse until I couldn't do any exercise using my triceps, no matter what grip I tried. I took a break from upper body workouts for about 2 months and it still feeling the same. I wonder if there's a stretching exercise that can help with it? Thanks!

thank you for informations i have a tendon injury so it ll help me

Great video here. I loved all its informative advice and look to implement it when stressing tendons throughout my body. Thanks for this

I have Adductor Tendinopathy. Thanks for this video, it helped a lot!

My peroneal tendon where it goes into my foot is twice as thick as the one on my other foot. I started having ankle problems in February. I had no idea what was wrong with my ankle. I continued trying to run on it and lifting and carrying heavy things. In August I happened to notice that the tendon was really thick but I continued doing things that put a lot of stress on the tendon, I even rolled my ankle a few times walking on uneven ground. Now I'm really trying to put a lot of attention to healing it and in just 6 days it has gotten significantly better. The tendon has started getting smaller and the pain and discomfort is a lot less. If I just had one month to rest it and do all the recovery things I'm doing I have no doubt it would be fully healed. Things I'm doing are resting it, applying cold and hot to the area, massaging it for 20 minutes every other day, keeping it raised for an hour every day, putting it in hot water an hour every day, doing Wim Hof breathing exercises twice a day and trying to focus on circulation to the area, weighted exercises, unweighted exercises, wearing a compression sleeve most of the day, and ibuprofen because I always felt like it helped me heal faster. I think I can definitely have it healed by next year although resting it every day isn't an option right now. Also I think there's something to keeping focus on that area and just thinking about healing all the time.

If inflammation is part of the healing process, wouldn't it be bad then to take anti inflammatories?

Man you teaching me more than my teacher.its more fun to watch your video

Great information and easily digestible. Perfect. Thanks!

Tendon need 6 month to heal bruh i cant stop training and soing push ups and pull ups man 😭😭😭

Oof. I hurt my Achilles lifting and it was so painful that I couldn’t walk

Phenomenal explanation for dummies like me. Thanks.

Injured my arm lifting, stopped for 6 months. Now I’m back at it and I feel great!

lol, as if anyone has a “good orthopedic doctor”.

Haven't been exercising for over 6 months...lost all my muscle, gained fat and my fucken tendon still hasn't healed.

Fantastic illustrations, great artwork!

I loved your way of explaining this..... I subbed....hoping to see more of this rich content

I liked the video, education for the non medical viewer. I also like that you use the word tendinopathy as true tendinitis actually doesn't happen. As far as the rehab concepts go, I'm gonna have to disagree with some of the things mentioned here. First don't massage a damaged tendon. Second, don't stretch a damaged tendon. Why stretch a structure that has micro tears in it? Third, go straight to a physical therapist instead of a orthopedist who will just send you to a PT. Save the money from the orthopedist trip and go straight to a good PT.

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To treat bronchitis, my family doc prescribed LevoFLOXacin (antibiotic of quinolone family). Within a short period of time, I developed "tennis elbow" (per my doc)...in my left arm. Took sev'l mos. to heal wearing a band, etc. Then my left knee became very painful. Wore a brace & it got better after sev'l mos. Then my left foot (in area above my arch) started hurting. Very painful. Felt like nerve pain (electric shock feeling) that gradually became a throbbing pain. Went to foot doc...after x-ray, he said it was in my tendon. I showed him paperwork from LevoFLOXacin that states "May cause PERMANENT TENDON Damage" - (sheesh....why didn't I read that before commencing the dosage & just requesting a different antibiotic). Foot doc thinks the Quinone Drug caused this tendon problem. ugh. PS: I'm 75 yrs. old & otherwise in okay shape - love to walk, etc. No other medical condition.

This video is underrated

For healing them it’s super important o eat enough XD

I ripped my ring finger tendon off and had a really fun operation

great video and I understand things now and have serious pain IT bands and arms and biceps and triceps. 37 athlete and cant get out of bed. Will rest up and heal.

I work in a a shop when we make wood structures for buildings. Swinging a 22oz hammer gave me a tendinitis. I wear now a support for my wrist and feels much better

how am i supposed to improve in lifting and running when my tendons need 6 months of rest everytime i increase the workload a teeny tiny bit :(

I rather have tendons that hurts from too much activity rather than other unhealthy side effects from inactivity.

had it around my elbow after curling too heavy, pulling back on a squat bar really helped to stretch it out... Night and day difference after that.

I tore a tendon in my foot, maybe even a few, a few months ago because I twisted my ankle really bad, and cracked my fibula bone (outer bone below the knee). The bone may be healed already, there was no need for a cast since it wasn't severe bone damage, but I still have side effects of my tendon injury. At the time I went to a doctor, but didn't get any rehab stuff, i was just given medicine and plenty of rest.

can your tendon get stronger after training? Moves like maltese in gymnastics puts alot of strain your tendons. Will training slowly allow your body to adapt to this stress, so you can perform movements like these more frequently?

I tore my left pec completely from my humorous and had to have surgery on it last week. Now the pec muscle near my armpit is very tight as if it is being stretched. Is this normal and will it ever relax back to normal?

Finally a good explanation of this topic. THANKS!

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