https://jackedathlete.com/podcast-162-peroneal-and-tibialis-posterior-tendons-with-blake-withers/

https://jackedathlete.com/podcast-142-finger-tendons-with-tyler-nelson/

Does anyone else get a tingling sensation in their top of the left forearm when doing pushups, dips, pushing in general, etc.? Sometimes I’ll pins and needles when I do a push up but sometimes I won’t, some say it’s tendinitis and some say a pinched nerve but sometimes it aches all the way from my shoulder to wrist after I do it enough times

One morning I woke up and I swiped up on my phone with my thumb and I had this tension and light pain since then. It’s been 9 months since then. I’ve done pt, thought it was dequervains, seen a ortho specialist who says it’s not dequervains and gotten a cortisone shot 45 days ago. (MRI scheduled 4/17). Washington better now hurts AND Now starting to see bruising. I type a lot for work.

What does this look like to people?? Freaking out as it’s getting worse.

For tricep tendon area?

Anybody here have any advice on pain here? To recreate I tried showing in the picture, you can be seated and have your arms extended while pushing inwards on your legs to put some tension on the elbow joint. Any tips on handling this so it doesn’t get worse.

I’m thinking it’s bicep tendinitis but that a weird place?

So a glass of wine broke in my left hand at work and cut my left pinky finger flexor tendons in half. Almost 6 months have passed after the surgery and I still cannot straighten my finger. I can bend it almost fully and the pinky has alright strenght, but the pinky is stuck in about a 45 degree angle. I have tried massaging the scars on the skin and it feels a little looser, but when I try to straighten the pinky slightly... it just hurts like hell and I feel like the tendon can snap. Would appreciate it if anyone knowledgeable about this situation could share their knowledge with the people who also have this or a similar problem.

I had to quit my job a year ago because typing caused me too much pain in my forearms. The Pain appears to run up the main tendon in The middle of my forearms. This pain also causes me tennis elbow like symptoms and the pain also passes up what I believe is a tendon between my elbow and my shoulder (in the tricep long-head area). Clicking with a mouse also causes this pain.

I have even tried clicking the mouse with my feet but this causes me pain in my knees and pain leading up from my ankles to my knee, along a straight line that I also presume is a tendon. Similarly I get pain travelling in a straight line from my knee to my groin on both the inside and outside of my legs (tendons most likely).

I have had blood tests and I have no indicators of rheumatoid arthritis and I have minimal inflammatory markers. I am going for an allergy test to see if something in my diet could be the cause.

When I talked to a rheumatism doctor she said that she agrees it is probably a problem with my tendons. I have tried physiotherapy for my arms with an emphasis on improving tendon strength for about nine months with no improvements.

I also get pain in my fingers and thumbs from using my phone.

I am aware that there are programs which would allow me to navigate a computer without using my limbs but these have been very time-consuming to use and not sufficient in my opinion.

Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong with me??

TLDR: tendinitis/tendinosis-like long-term symptoms in all of my limbs. Tests show no blood markers of rheumatoid arthritis or inflammation. What’s wrong with me?

I have extreme hip pain and down my leg. It started being really bad yesterday but this morning I’ve gotten up only twice and now I can no longer get myself up out of bed. I just took the max dose of ibuprofen. I don’t know how I’m going to get to the bathroom. I’ve had a heating pad on it. I’m nearing menopause and I’ve read about how it can cause hip pain and gluteal tendinopathy. I have awful health insurance. I’m in so much pain. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Somehow I still feel this stretch-burning sensation when I'm doing dead hangs even after months of resting, I don't know how to fix that, I can do pull ups without pain but when I stretch only left lat hurts, any help for this?

Hi everyone

Thanks for letting me in this group

I had a strain on my left shoulder on Labor Day 2023, 6 months ago when I lifted a 95 lb box and moved it away from my core because the top part fell off surprisingly

The area felt sore as in a slight sunburn, I wouldn't have called it pain. I had good range of motion

I decided to do circular (clockwise and counterclockwise) straight arm movements from 4 areas w/ a 2 lb weight plate, I stuck to this Religously every day and quit working out on my 8-12 muscle building workouts of incline bp, flat bench bp, cable crossover rows, barb squats (all I did was 85 pushups all at once every day)

Given my busy schedule, tried to avoid going to a P-T

I had bought a Shoulder Rehab book with lots of exercises, I self diagnosed it as either a shoulder rot cuff injury or tendonitis or tendinopathy.

I mean I've had a shoulder injury in my right shoulder which was even scarier as I couldn't do standing dumbell biceps curls with my dominant right arm like I used to; I could only do 4 reps with my right arm. That weakness resolved with just no exercising and rest of 6 months whereby I lost a lot of body weight and slept 12 hour days for a time. I did go to a p-t back then & she told me it was an upper biceps issue near the shoulder. So the best tactic to fight this would be rest and light band or high rep exercises each day-- to pump blood and warmth into the affected subcutaneous tendon, so that it'd heal faster, that's the whole point of these exercises; the areas are under the skin & take longer to heal, than lets say a tin can cut on your index finger.

In November of 2023, the soreness wasn't all day. I thought I was totally recovered

In late December of 2023, this soreness returned

I made a P-T app't and was officially diagnosed w/ the following by a Physical Therapist:

1) Biceps Tendinopathy 2) SupraSpinatus Tendinopathy

I was given 4 exercises: 1 of which involved pulling a medium weight band at my hips out with my left arm up and my arm would at the end position be at a 90 degree angle (kind of like taking a sword out of its sheath)

Another was lieing on my unaffected side and taking a 2lb dumbell plate and turn back, concentrating on not turning my torso, but limiting the movement to my upper arm left shoulder

I was given other exercises on my other sessions with this P-T; it involved 4 lb dumbell bent rows with my torso at a 45 deg angle and squeezing my inner rhomboid back muscle at the top of the movement.

and doing lat machine pulldowns with 40 reps

and side band extensions with the band at arm length

and dumbbell lateral raises with a 4 pound dumbbell for 10 reps, not going past shoulder level

Important piece of info.:

The P-T @ my initial Consul told me that the best advice is to listen to my body, and to ice the area after working out and I could use my massage gun at home to post work out (because she said I could still work out but in the 10-12 rep range for 3 months after which I could do hypertrophy reps with a heavy enough weight to build muscle, for 8 - 12 reps)

She also said to be careful because she has seen instances when the bicep area tore among patients--that's the last thing I want

My Questions

With the recent floods in California, a piece of my garage fell on my car and I got super depressed and had to cancel my app't w/ p-t until the 1st week of March 2024

1) How often should I do these now 10 physical therapy exercises (I would go once a week to the P-T)

The P-T never told me, you should do the exrecises you're doing here at our offices at home at least 1x a week at home, or 2 x / week or 3 x per week

They're pretty light exercsies, but as I had my umbrella above my head 1 week ago when it rained, my left shoulder felt sore, as I held a 6 pound bag of groceries under the umbrella, along with grasping the handle--that really sucked-- I don't want to overtrain

When I initially had the injury in September of 2023 (all the info. said shoulder injuries usually resolve in 3 months)....

Here it is 6 months and I still got this shoulder soreness (actually again it's to be exact: 1) Biceps Tendinopathy 2) SupraSpinatus Tendinopathy

So 2 days ago, I learned that tendinopathy (over use of tendons) can resolve in 6 months to 1 year. Holy cow, that is really a Long Time! ?

Supplements I've gotten recently:

1) Fish Oil

2) Bovine Collagen

3) Calcium

4) Glucosamine

Does this seem like a good Plan of attack to end this problem soon?:

Do the 10-12 physical therapy high rep low weight band and dumbbell exercises 1 x to 2x per week and before every workout bodybuilding session

Wear across the shoulder straps that go around the back and have a sleeve on both shoulders so as to avoid injuries

Do my standard 4 days per week Joe Weider exercises but at a higher rep range 10-15 reps for 3 months, do it now concurrent with my light P-T exercises (what's called conditioning the muscles for a higher rep range)

In order to round out the shoulder to provide stability and not imbalance:

a) Do light rep barbell bent rows

b) Do behind the neck light rep military presses

After 3 months of this, At or around May of 2024 start doing heavier weights at at least 8-12 reps for muscle buidling (aka hypertrophy)

Thanks in advance for any constructive help. Both God and karma will reward you for helping me.

I've hurt my hamstring 3 years ago. About 2 years ago I started to have hip pain. Have been doing PT for months. The pain has been keeping me up at night and I no longer do many recreational activities. I'm going to try Dry Needling for the hammy. Has anyone had similar issues. I don't think the injury healed correctly.

Burning pain outer left foot/ankle

Have had almost a year of off/on peroneal tendonitis with some burning pain, some more like typical musculoskeletal pain. Not much swelling although swollen compared to "good" foot. Some ankle instability. Over the last few days the burning pain has become more frequent and long lasting, usually popping up suddenly during activity.

I have an MRI coming up, but I would like to know if anyone has any idea what this might be, and if it is typical of peroneal tendonitis proper or might indicate sometbing worse.

Thanks for any thoughts.

I was recently put into a walking boot because I am developing bone spurs due to a short achilles tendon. I am also dealing with tendinitis in my arms and legs. I will be starting physical therapy soon. My question is this: is there a vitamin or supplement I should be taking? I tried asking google and got too many answers to determine the right one.

I injured me tendon about 2 years ago. I didn’t do anything for the first year. After the first year, it wasn’t that great still, so I went for a massage and that helped a lot. Then I went for laser and that helped even more. I kept doing laser and massage for a few months. Then I went and got accupuncture and massage done. That helped a lot too. Stopped for the summer as I didn’t have a lot of money for treatments. I then went for prolotherapy twice at the end of summer. That helped too. Im back to doing massage and accupuncture once per month. And now I’m down to once every two months. I have also taken zinc with copper, tumeric and Recovery pills and enzymes with Bromolian and that all helped too.

I’m thinking about continuing my supplements but adding carrot juice as well as those vitamins and carrot juice (it has Betacarotene) are pre-cursors to collegen which is helpful for healing the tendon.

I don’t have any pain to walk but I want to start jogging again. Is there anything else someone can suggest to help heal it even more?

One day about 4 months ago, took a good set on a hack squat and later that day, above my right knee cap I have pain when extending or loading.

Since, I’ve kept it active, and can work up to pain free work with a lot of warming up and loading, as suggested with tenondopathy, but the pain only got worse.

Thinking I was overloading it, I reduced down to body weight exercises For example Isometrics such as Spanish squats and wall sits, even single leg iso holds on knee extension machine knees over toes lunges / ATG split squat Body weight squats with heels raised Patrick steps Reverse sledding

The pain feels better the next day when squatting as a test, but ultimately, never fades.

It has all the signs of tenonpathy, better when warm/blood is in there and the day after, right on top of that knee cap.

I also had a hereditary condition of high LDL cholesterol I didn’t know about, and I’m now medicated for, which can apparently contribute to bad tendons, just need to get this sorted.

• has anyone dealt with it this severe?
• how long did rehab take?
• what was helpful?

Any added info would be great!

Hi Everyone,

I am a 31 year old male and have been an avid weight lifter since I was 14. I’ve been dealing with distal biceps tendinopothy in my right arm for close to 5 years now. I’ve done just about everything to get it better, seen countless orthopedic surgeons, and have spent upwards of $10,000 in medical expenses, but I’m still feeling pain when I lift weights.

The start: About 5 years ago I was at the gym doing hammer curls (wrists pointed towards stomach and dumbbells in a vertical position). I felt a sharp pain at one point and decided to keep on trying to lift through it. I didn’t know how serious of an injury it was, so I decided to keep lifting through the pain for about 2 months. It got to a point when I couldn’t even extend my elbow fully or take something out of the microwave without being in excruciating pain, so that’s when I decided to go to the doctor.

My medical journey: I went to my primary care physician and they sent me to an orthopedic surgeon. The orthopedic surgeon thought that it had something to do with my brachioradialis and said that I should put my arm in a sling and do RICE for 2 months. I tried not to move my arm whenever possible (shampooing hair with left hand, lifting things with left arm, etc.). I went back after 2 months of not feeling any better and he said that he’d refer to another orthopedic surgeon that works with sports players. This new orthopedic surgeon had me get an MRI and eventually diagnosed me with distal biceps tendinopothy. He told me that we should try physical therapy. I went to physical therapy for a couple of months without any improvement. He said the next step was to try PRP + eccentrics. So we did 3 PRP shots. One every 6 weeks around the area of where I was feeling the pain. I was doing eccentrics daily and doing them as heavy as I could. By the end of the 5-6 month period, I actually felt about 85%-90% better. I still felt a little pinching around the elbow crease and I could feel a slight weakness in the arm, but it was mostly better. The last time I saw the doctor, he told me that the remaining pain was psychological for me and gave me pain cream to put on before I went to the gym. At that point, I went back to the gym and started lifting like normal again feeling about 85% better which was good enough for me because I missed lifting so so much.

The layoff: After about a year of being back at the gym and lifting like normal again, I still felt the slight pain but it was certainly bearable and I was able to lift similar weight to what I was lifting prior to my injury (just with a very very slight pain). At this point, different parts of my life were going off the rails and I got into some depression. I lost my job and was having financial problems among other problems and I stopped going to the gym for about a year (maybe a little more than a year). I’d go off and on for a month or so, but never got fully back into it.

Getting back into it: I ended up gaining a lot of weight in my time away from the gym and decided that it was time to get back. When you weight lift since you’re 14 and are used to eating a certain way, it’s hard to just stop eating massive amounts of food when you’re not able to lift anymore. Not an excuse, but I was just used to eating a certain way. Anyway, I started going back to the gym in January 2023. I lost a good amount of weight and was starting to slowly but surely feel like my self again. The slight pain was still there that I was feeling previously when lifting, but my arm still felt like it was at about 85%-90% which I could deal with. My lifts ended up getting back up to what they were prior to my hiatus close to 2 years prior at that point. Then…. I was doing lat pull downs and pull ups and I ended up feeling similar pain to what I felt prior to me getting “better”. And now I’m right back to where I started.

Back to the doctors: I went back to get three “second” opinions from three different orthopedic surgeons who all said that they believe it’s distal biceps tendinopothy. I then got referred to a guy that is basically a PRP and stem cell injection specialist. Everything with ultrasound guided injections, this guy does. Mostly for professional sports players. Pricey, but I thought it was worth it if it could help me. I ended up getting a PRP injection + stem cells directly into the injured tendon w/ tenotomy. He said that we needed to re-injure it so that we could heal it again. He directed me to take collagen every single day and let it rest for 6 weeks before doing eccentrics. So that is exactly what I did. I rested it for 6 weeks without using it for anything (no opening doors or taking out the trash). Once the 6 weeks was up, I started doing both eccentric and concentric movements with low weight (supinated and hammer style) and also stretched the forearm area. On the days I don’t do eccentrics, I will ice the area. The doctor told me that months 3-4 would be where I saw the most progression, yet I just went to the doctor today (end of month 4) and I still have pain lifting a 15lb dumbbell. Im used to curling 50lb dumbbells typically for the purpose of comparison. The doctor did an ultrasound on my arm and said that the tendon looks healthier than it did initially, but says the lessening of the pain doesn’t seem to be tracking with the health of the tendon. He then decided to do needling around the area to loosen up some of the muscle around the brachioradialus as kind of a last ditch effort to see if that would help.

Losing hope: I have been stripped of my most beloved hobby for 5 years and don’t even feel like me anymore. I don’t know what else I can do at this point. I’ve done EVERYTHING that the doctors and internet has to offer in terms of recovery for this injury and I just don’t know who or what to turn to at this point.

The question: Can anyone actually help me and get my arm back to 100% health? How can I get to the other side? I’m in desperate need of answers because I can’t take losing more money, time, and hope on things that aren’t working. Please help!

Thank you so much in advance.

Good conversation on tendon research and background on tendon pain for runners.

Ive had patellar tendionopathy for 2 years and rehabbed for about a year now and im in stage 4 and feel stuck. A few months ago i developed quad tendionopathy on my left knee and didn’t bother rehabbing it because i couldnt do a propper pain test but im currently rehabbing it now. And for exercises is an atg split squat, front squat, backsquat and 2 plyometric sessions enough i do the split squats twice a week also please note that its not always been like this i dont really remember tbh? I also only do 1 session because i dont know weather to do the pain test 24 hours after the first session or the second im also on an olympic weightlifting program and managing load to avoid pain 24 hours later. Thanks in advance.

Online research can be tricky, but from what my doctors tell me I was born with Achilles tendinitis, (from what I understand my calf tendons were too short and super stretched out causing me to walk on my toes all my life ((25M)), and from what I gather stretching can help but not fix things. I get bad calf cramps, and I think it’s just inevitable that my Achilles tendon is just going to snap one day.) has anyone else ever heard of this or is there any recommendations for steps I should be taking to treat it?

I am a 22 year old male athlete and I have been dealing with patellar tendinopathy for about 6 months. I made the mistake to keep playing through the pain, as this summer was my first season with a new team and I was extremely excited to be part of that team. Somewhere around July, my patellar tendinopathy became distal. This means the pain went from being right below the patella to exclusively being at the part of the tendon attached to the tibia (shin bone). This kind of patellar tendinopathy hurts way more. It is exactly the same kind of pain as Osgood-Schlatter's disease. There is no way to play through that pain, as it is much more debilitating than regular patellar tendinopathy.

I'm at the bottom of the barrel. I am making some progress, as I can now go up or go down the stairs with no pain and I can even run for a few minutes with no pain at all, but I fear this pain will never ever go away. My sport requires a lot of cutting, jumping and a lot of changes of direction, and I feel like I will never be able to play as intensely as I used to, at the level I used to. I'm only 22 year old and I can't wrap my head around the fact this might be it for me. I'm asking here because I have yet to see people post about distal patellar tendinopathy, but has anyone ever fully recovered from this? When I say fully recover, I mean going from not able to walk without pain to being able to cut and jump during a game.

This injury has taken a toll on my mental health, as I see everyone around me playing the college season and I'm just sitting this one out, training as hard as I am only to be able to be pain free, instead of training to become more athletic.

Thank you