Healing Tendonitis and Resolving Tendon Apathy
Tendinitis is inflammation or irritation of a tendon, any one of the thick fibrous cords that attach muscles to bones. The condition causes pain and tenderness just outside a joint. While tendinitis can occur in any of your body's tendons, it's most common around your shoulders, elbows, wrists and heels.

Some common names for various tendinitis problems are:

1) Tennis elbow
2) Golfers elbow
3) Pitchers shoulder
4) Swimmers shoulder
5) Jumpers knee


If tendinitis is severe and leads to the rupture of a tendon, you may need surgical repair. But most cases of tendinitis can be successfully treated with rest and medications to reduce the pain and inflammation.

Symptoms

Signs and symptoms of tendinitis occur at the point where a tendon attaches to a bone and typically include:

1) Pain, often described as a dull ache
2) Tenderness
3) Mild swelling

Causes

Although tendinitis can be caused by a sudden injury, the condition is much more likely to stem from the repetition of a particular movement over time. Most people develop tendinitis because their jobs or hobbies involve repetitive motions, which aggravate the tendons needed to perform the tasks.

Western Medicine Treatment

The goals of tendinitis treatment are to relieve your pain and reduce inflammation. Often, home treatment, which includes rest, ice and over-the-counter pain relievers, may be all that you need. Other treatments for tendinitis include:

Medications

Sometimes your doctor may inject a corticosteroid medication around a tendon to relieve tendinitis. Injections of cortisone reduce inflammation and can help ease pain. However, repeated injections may weaken a tendon, increasing your risk of rupturing the tendon.

Therapy

You might benefit from a program of specific exercise designed to stretch and strengthen the affected muscle-tendon unit.

Surgery

Depending on the severity of your tendon injury, surgical repair may be needed

Adopted from mayoclinic.com