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Anterior knee pain (patella femoral syndrome)

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.

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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.
What are they used for?
Primarily to control pain and swelling. They are ideal for tired aching muscles or joints from sporting activity, exercise and repetitive stress injuries. The Goode Wraps help the muscles regain strength and prevent or lessen the sharp pain in joints from tendon stress

"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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Goode Wraps Relieve Pain, Swelling and Stiffness by Relaxing Muscles

Philosophy and Application
DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:
Using anti-inflammatory medication for these tendon problems is a prescription for disaster as they clearly do not treat the underlying cause and have the potential to cause significant complications.

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!

Time to Abandon the "Tendonitis" Myth

By K M Khan, assistant professor.Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z3
Tendonitis 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 tendonitis 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 tendonitis 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 tendonitis 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 tendonitis 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