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The most advanced topical application for bursitis and Tendinitis - Tendonitis
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A proposed hypothesis: there is no such thing as tendinitis or bursitis. Or, if they do exist, they are like Baptist nuns: theoretically possible, but extraordinarily scarce.
Tendinitis and bursitis are, by definition, inflammations. Massage therapy should not be able to resolve them. In fact, massage therapy of inflamed tissue is contraindicated; it ought to make them worse. Yet in every case of a patient diagnosed with tendinitis or bursitis, I have found trigger point activity referring pain into the area in question, and have been able to resolve the problem by treating the trigger points and assigning ergonomic adjustments, stretches and moist heat (heat is also contraindicated for inflammations).
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"Thanks for a great product. I ordered the knee wrap last time (1997) as I had hurt my knee while using a machine at the gym. My knee was so sore it was difficult to walk much less up steps. After using the knee wrap, it did not take long before all of the pain was gone. I was amazed. The pain has not returned. I have since ordered (1998) these for my Mom for her wrist and for a friend for her ankle. They were both pleased. Now once again we have returned (2002) and my son is using the wrap for ankle pain. Thanks again!"
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Time to Abandon the "Tendinitis" Myth
Tendinitis such as that of the Achilles, lateral elbow, and rotator cuff tendons is a common presentation to family practitioners and various medical specialists.
Most currently practicing general practitioners were taught, and many still believe, that patients who present with overuse tendinitis have a largely inflammatory condition and will benefit from anti-inflammatory medication.
Unfortunately this dogma is deeply entrenched.
Ten of 11 readily available sports medicine texts specifically recommend non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for treating painful conditions like Achilles and patellar tendinitis despite the lack of a biological rationale or clinical evidence for this approach.
Instead of adhering to the myths above, physicians should acknowledge that painful overuse tendon conditions have a non-inflammatory cause.
A critical review of the role of various anti-inflammatory medications in soft tissue conditions found limited evidence of short term pain relief and no evidence of their effectiveness in providing even medium term clinical resolution of clearly diagnosed tendon disorders.
Laboratory studies have not shown a therapeutic role for these medications. Steroid injections provide mixed results in relieving the pain of tendon problems.
If general practitioners, orthopedic surgeons, and other members of the healthcare professions treating tendon disorders made a quantum shift from previous flawed teaching about overuse tendinitis and adopted these data there would be immediate ramifications.
Some pockets of the sports medicine, orthopedics, and rheumatology specialties have adopted this paradigm, 2-4 10 but it must no longer remain within that cabal. It is time for medical educators to accept the irrefutable evidence that the term tendinitis must be abandoned to highlight a new perspective on tendon disorders.
Adopting the tendinopathy paradigm is essential if general practitioners are to practice evidence based medicine.
British Medical Journal March 16, 2002; 324: 626-627
Goode Wraps Relieve Pain, Swelling and Stiffness by Relaxing Muscles
Put simply, the philosophy is that the body is a self regulating bioenergetic and biomechanical phenomena which will continue to regulate itself for as long as it has the reserve energy necessary to sustain life, by the ongoing process of biological adaptation.
Bowen realized that the body would regulate itself and return to balance if the appropriate neurological and neuromuscular context was created so that it could. There was never the question of if it could, this was implicit -- the fact that the person had life was evidence enough that it could!
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