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A new product developed by Goode Wraps relieves Knee Tendonitis (Chondromalacia) Pain

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PATELLAR TENDONITIS (JUMPER'S KNEE)
One of the big differences between the effects of patellar tendonitis (that is, tendonitis of the patella--the kneecap), and chondromalacia is that tendonitis 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 tendonitis. 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.

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Injury Report: Knee Pain

By Dr. Tom Coniglione
Within a one-year period, one out of every three runners will have an injury. Out of every three of these injuries, one will involve the knee. Of all the injuries that occur in the knee, those affecting the knee cap are the most common. A variety of names have been given to this injury, most commonly chondromalacia or runner's knee.

Runner's knee pain usually comes on gradually. Unlike a skiing injury where symptoms occur abruptly, the runner's knee pain occurs gradually over a period of weeks or even months. The pain is difficult to localize. However, it is usually in the front of the knee around the kneecap.

Clues
Feeling as if the knee will give way ïpain when getting in and out of a car, particularly if the left knee is affected (Visualize getting into a car. When sliding into the driver's seat, all of your weight is on your left leg. Getting out of the car, the left leg is placed on the street and the weight of the body is raised on the left leg and knee. The lower the seat, the more the stress on the knee. Those with runner's knee who use a clutch will also notice that the left knee is uncomfortable when depressing the clutch.) ïstiff or achy knee after prolonged sitting.

Discomfort when squatting, kneeling or hopping (Doing squats or leg extensions in the gym may be the cause of the knee damage.).

Pain when walking downstairs; occasionally when walking upstairs.

Pain with lateral thrusting movements such as those used in racquet sports or aerobics.

All of the factors which precipitate knee pain are those where the knee is bent and there is pressure placed on the foot or when doing leg extension exercises on machines with a bar across the front of the ankle.

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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

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!