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Patellar Tendinitis Patella Tendonitis

Is very common in athletes. Typically, pain is increased during activities involving stair climbing, squatting or kneeling. Patella femoral syndrome is caused by an irritation on the undersurface of the patella or knee cap, which can lead to softening and eventual loss of the cartilage lining the bone of the joint.
There are many causes for patella femoral syndrome including malalignment of the lower extremity expressed as flat feet, knock knees, or internally rotated hips. The patella glides up and down in a shallow groove at the front of the femur or thigh bone. Patella femoral syndrome is generally caused by an imbalance of the muscle forces around the knee cap causing it to pull laterally and produce abnormal stresses on the undersurface of the knee cap. Goode wraps relax muscles and allow increased normal healing.

One of the big differences between the effects of patellar tendinitis (that is, tendinitis of the patella--the kneecap), and chondromalacia is that tendinitis sufferers are much better able to locate the pain. Whereas people with chondromalacia may rub their fingers up, down, and around the knee to indicate where it hurts, when you have tendinitis you can put a fingertip right on the spot. It's so tiny and specific that you can put the tip of a ballpoint pen right on the spot and just about levitate yourself into the air with pain. And that spot is right at the bottom of the kneecap, where the tendon that goes on to connect to the shinbone begins--hence the name, patellar tendinitis. It's also called jumper's knee, as it was first described in the takeoff leg of high jumpers. But it turns out that basketball players probably have more jumper's knee than anybody else. You also see it in dancers, runners (and it's very hard to deal with in runners, for some reason), volleyball players--anyone who runs and jumps regularly may suffer from it. And, like chondromalacia, it sneaks up on you, first hurting after your activity, then toward the end of the activity, then during, at the beginning, and finally all the time. It's not nearly as common as chondromalacia-nothing is--but it's more difficult to deal with. It's probably the second most frequent knee injury.

What are Goode Wraps, anyway?
They are elasticized cloth bands or sports wraps. Each of these is impregnated with a unique blend of natural rare earth semiconductors that increase circulation to reduce pain or prevent swelling. Goode Wraps are available for the foot, ankle, knee, elbows, and wrist. In fact, the semiconductors can be added to almost any cloth like material.

Time to Abandon the "Patellar 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

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!