Can I check that I’ve understood? This was a very helpful video, thank you. Tension: Light massaging above and below the effected area, e.g bicep and forearm for elbows. 5mins/day? How does exercise or avoidance fit in to this? Inflammation: how about using strap on ice packs for 10mins 3/day ? A bit more practical Nutrition: daily magnesium/calcium supplements in addition to a good diet. ( I already eat well, but u never know) What are your thoughts on using heat after exercise? I definitely have inflammation, 1year in, not much seems to be working. I’ve been advised to look into the biopsychosocial approach to pain. It’s a bit of a catch 22 therapy if it doesn’t feel like it’s working.
My solutions come in the form of my programs. Want to fix tendonitis, you need a complete plan of attack. Tips and tricks just aren't going to give you the results you want. 'Do this stretch!' in the vast majority of cases also won't. There's lots of free videos with what you call solutions. If they work, great! If not, my programs will be here for you.
@@TendonitisExpert with an attitude like that no one will ever buy ur lousy program. where is your credibility btw? how do we even know what u claim is legit. you shady as hell🖕🖕
Lol. Like moths to a flame, some people just can't stop themselves from being attracted to dumb stuff and saying more dumb stuff. God I love the internet. People buy my programs every day. "How do we even know??" I don't know, how do you know anything? By trying it and seeing if it works. Funnily enough, doctors, who are 'credible' and not 'shady', don't offer a money back guarantee/give a refund when their services fail to improve or eliminate a problem, nor when they make the problem worse.
I think I got severe tendonitis in my wrist a few years ago, doctors never diagnosed me or gave me a treatment plan, I have to keep working or ill starve. Now its spreading to my other tendons. It's terrible from my arms to my legs. Please listen to this man and work to treat it before it gets worse.
I have had tendinitis for nearly nine months it is getting a lot worse and even hurts when I move my wrist and thumb the slightest. I’m not sure what to do
Hi Joshua. I am very excited to have found your page and I just very politely wondering what are the credentials or experience that you have which make you the expert on this? Would you please be so good to let me know because I really need help on this.
Hi. I generally bypass this question that I occasionally get. Why? Because credentials don't mean anything. Doctors have credentials, they haven't solved the problem. PT's have credentials, they haven't solved the problem. Etc. I'll try this as an answer this time: 26 years of specializing in eliminating tendonitis (and tendonitis-related issues). Notice i said specializing in 'eliminating' it, not 'treating' it. Big difference. I work with the bare bones basics of how the body operates. Which is where the causes of the problem operate. Mostly, people with 'credentials' focus on trying to treat the symptoms. Which is weird, but that's what they do. Ultimately, the proof is in the pudding. Do the work, get the results.
I have watched several of your videos, and all I've seen is one repeat of the issues over and over.....but no actual solution, i.e. , no discussion of any of the 3 problems. I can only assume that these videos are all just ads to sell your product. Sad
Or, what you could learn from all the repetition (across various different body parts). is that the tendonitis dynamic is the tendonitis dynamic no matter where it shows up, the causes are the same. If you fail to find that concept valuable, and if you're not willing to pay $30 for a complete plan of attack to reverse the dynamic, after presumably spending much more money and time and effort and wasted time/effort with doctors and PT's etc, well, there's tons of free tips and tricks out there on youtube just for you. Tips and tricks don't work in the long run, and often not in the short run, but hey, they're free. I mean, YOU could put in the time and effort to research how to reverse the causes I repeated on all my videos. But instead of you putting out that time and effort, I'm supposed to give you the ongoing results of my life's work for free (just like doctors and PT's and every single other health professional do!). In a 6 minute youtube video. Mmm hmm.
TendonitisExpert Ah, and there it is. All I was saying is that these videos are an ad to sell your product. That's it. Thank you for confirming that. Most of us are merely accustomed to watching you tube channels primarily for the education, not for advertisements. Yours are just misleading was my only point.
So...you missed all the education on the videos because there's a one sentence blurb about my product at the end? Protip: All youtube videos are the front end of a business, even if it's just getting paid for youtube traffic from the ads (which I don't have ads on my videos).
TendonitisExpert No.....I didn't miss all the education on your videos. I saw several of them, as I've already mentioned, and discovered that the information was all the same; different tendon, same spiel on a loop.
I actually recently have been diagnosed with Chronic Tendonitis and it SUCKS. Right now I’m in a boot to help stabilize my foot so it doesn’t get any worse. I had a work injury where I broke my ankle but because I was rushed through my injury and had not had any real treatment the Tendonitis had gotten worse and now I’m in massive amounts of pain 24/7
Yep, that sounds problematic. Broke ankle, was put in a cast, everything tightened up and shrunkwrapped down (making the muscles less functional). Now you're in a boot, that immobilzes the foot, which continues the process of tightening/shrinkwrapping down making things less functional. Do you have a sense of if the pain is from the break not healing very well (bone), or from all the tightness constantly/chronically compressing the joint and pulling hard on the tendons and other attachments?
Your videos gave me hope. I have gluteal tendinopathy on left side from one year but diagnosed recently. My question: Can we also take NSAIDS to reduce pain and inflammation while we are on rehab Or will it do more harm? I understand that it will not do any good in long term but during rehab it might be helpful to tolerate the exercises. Thank you.
I do have my own practice, yes. My conclusions are based on a variety of things. Not studies so much as a study of the bare bones basics of how the body works. For instance, sometimes people give me a hard time because I assert that nutrition (lack thereof) is involved in a tendonitis dynamic. But when one understands that the body requires nutrition to operate properly...and that it or it's parts can't if they don't have enough of what is needed to operate properly. then it can't.
Hi, I noticed that you don't refer to exercise. I understand your points however in all tendon rehabs there are exercises that strengthen the tendon, what is your intake on that?
Hi Thomas. My thoughts on that are: do those tendon rehabs work? And, why exactly do these rehabs believe that the tendon weak? And, if the tendon is weak, how would exercise make it stronger, when most all people with tendonitis are already using their bodies, so again, why would the tendon be weak? (it's actually a very important question for this topic).
@@TendonitisExpert Thank you for answering. I actually don't know how to answer your questions but I do know that for some people rehabs did work for example Knees over Toes guy (you must have heard of him, he fixed his tendonitis in his knees with exercises) Anyway is there any way for me to contact you via email I'd like to ask you more questions :)
If symptoms are from 'imbalances' fixable/correctable with exercises of any kind, great. Do it. if it works, great. It certainly can....if the symptoms are from that. Can all knee pain (called tendonitis) be fixed by exercises? No. Are those that are 'fixed' by exercises permanent, or does one need to keep doing the exercises to keep the symptoms away? That's a great question to ask. You can use the Contact form on my website, or ask here.
Is your program also for tendinosis? I’m an otherwise healthy 40 year-old but getting tendinosis all over my body from triceps to Achilles. It would make sense that it’s some sort of nutritional deficiencies. Or some damage I’m causing by taking too many supplements
a. Yes. (cause) is from the same dynamic. B. Like...suddenly getting it all over? Why do you think it's tendinosis? Taken any fluoroquinolone antibiotics lately/ever? What supplements are you taking? ('too many' nutritional supplements causing what you describe is unlikely).
@@TendonitisExpert I took Fluoroquinolone for 10 days March 2020. No issues till about four months ago. Still researching and I’m probably going to get on a call with you (if you still offer consultation) when I get my Marek Health bloodwork results but my suspicion is Tonkat Ali. Took it for over a year and I don’t think I cycled off enough. Apparently it lowers estrogen and causes joint issues in a lot of people. I have an MRI showing tendinosis in my left tricep. Now the other tricep while doing extremely light tricep exercises to heal the left one. Left Achilles Got hurt by doing three sets/20 reps of body weight calf raises. Right lat, left bicep, and possibly right forearm are starting to act up with medium intensity workout so I’m stopping working out for now... I’ve been doing tendinitis/tendinosis exercises for my left arm for the past three months along with peptide TB 500/BPC157/CJC/Ipa. I was making some progress but I stopped the peptides a month ago and I can see things are getting worse. Taking both chicken and beef collagen supplements, C, MSM, glucosamine + chondroitin for the past few weeks but I assume if they’re going to work it’ll be a while. My diet is mostly meat/eggs.
I’ve had patellar tendonitis since 2014 and it’s never seem to go away I’ve did many different kinds of stretches even yoga and took some time off basketball for 7weeks came back and it was still present in my knees
Hi, I've had tendonosis a lot of times. My problem is not so much healing from them eventhough it takes time as it is not getting them in the first place.... Whenever I get stronger I get them. I might know of a few things you have not tried yet and which have had great results on past chronic tendonitis. You can try upping your omega 3 intake (1g of epa + dha) per day and combine this with hydrolyzed collagen peptides and vitamin c. It takes around 10 days for the effect to be noticed but this has truly been miraculous. Really slow resistance training will help restructuring the tendons too. Have a good day !
@@lezard7100 Hey, i just read your comment and was curious what epa + dha means in that context? i am not a native english speaker.. thank you in advance :)
*Ive been taking collagen+vitamin c for a while now in combination with stretching and cooling but i dont seem to get anywhere with it, do you think the omega3 might bring salvation?
@@luclo8076 dude don't listen to this clown lmao you can take everything's it won't help nothing can heal thoses injuries, you can drink collagen if the body don't produce it then its useless nothing will heal it i got it since many years i does all the things its did not do anythings.
I've had it for about 4 months now so I definitely understand your pain. I'm a gamer as well and definitely miss my favorite pastime 😞. I believe my Tendonitis was caused by too much muscle tightness cuz I was gaming for hours on end during the day, and plus along with the fact that I have to lift things heavy buckets constantly at work. Plus my nutrition intake wasn't all that great either, I started taking vitamins at about a month ago and my symptoms aren't nearly as severe as they once were. And you may have to do more than 6 weeks of physical therapy. Not everybody heals at the same rate ya know?
Hello. Interesting to hear. I've been suffering from two-sided tendinitis Trochanterica since the beginning of the year and I also thought that would be over in 3 to 4 months. But everything that has been tried, NSAID and physiotherapy, have not yet struck! I've been making intermettating fasting for almost 3 decades and always believed me to do something good. Unfortunately, I have fed myself very monotonous in recent years and thus negotiated a deficit in important vitamins and trace elements. Now I'm eating anti-inflammatory food, but there are the other two factors. What could I do there? Greetings from Germany, Thomas
Intermittent fasting is, in general, great. "Unfortunately, I have fed myself very monotonous in recent years and thus negotiated a deficit in important vitamins and trace elements. Now I'm eating anti-inflammatory food, but there are the other two factors. What could I do there?" Say more about that. Im not sure what you're asking.
Hey, thanks for this informative video. I was just wondering, do you believe anxiety can cause tendinitis? I’ve had anxiety for most of my life and then a while back my tendons by my elbow would hurt (mostly left arm but sometimes right arm too). It felt like everything just seized up and the pain is in my tendon but sometimes radiates up to my upper arm. My shoulder also has the same issue sometimes and is tender to touch. Just wanted your opinion, I’ve read articles that link anxiety to all types of muscle pain but everyone seems to think differently!
Yes. That falls under the 'lack of nutrition' factor. Anxiety eats up magnesium (also, anxiety is a symptom of magnesium insufficiency). Lack of magnesium tightens muscle...which pull on tendons. So you end up being more and more anxious and muscles get more and more tight over time as your body has less and less magnesium (so it can't operate properly).
@@TendonitisExpert Got it, thanks for the reply! I use magnesium but I use a lower dose. I shall up my dose slightly (still within recommended levels) and see if this helps!
Hello, I wanted to add that I got tendonitis for the first time, when I was very stressed, tense (even physically, I was unconsciously clenching up my muscles constantly) and anxious, I developed all kinds of stress related health problems and tendinosis. Also, sings of magnesium deficiency, like muscle spasms. I hope you sort out your anxiety issues, good luck ❤️
@@TendonitisExpert you say on your website not to use magnesium oxide? why is that. just bought magnesium supplement, but its the oxide. so is it useless? do i need to get a different mag suppliment
Mag oxide is less bioavailable, by a lot, compared to most other options. Granted, there are some who say that while it is less bioavailable, there's WAY more in it, so it works out to about the same. I don't know for sure, so I say avoid mag oxide. Having said that, if that's what you have, it's at least better than nothing. If return isn't really an option, I'd go through that bottle, and next time get something else. Or get something else, and take them together (and then get something else when the oxide is gone).
Hi Joshua I ordered your book but it’s not in my email yet. It’s been several hours. I contacted you via your site. Need your help ASAP. Very desperate for a solution and anxious to start your programs
I’ve had tendonitis in my dominant hand for nearly four years now (from the knuckle of my pinky, up to the outer side of my wrist and all the way up my underarm). I got this from drawing and writing too much, and my physio and doctor had almost no clue how to effectively deal with it. Over the first year or so it got a lot better, but it’s never really been ‘good’ again. I live with some amount of hand/wrist pain every day of my life, and had to essentially give up my aspirations to become a full time artist as my dream career. I’m doubtful that it will heal properly in the nearest future, despite my routines of stretching and exercise. I guess my main problem is that no doctor I’ve ever been to has seen tendonitis taken this shape in a hand before, they normally deal with common sports injuries, and so trying to fix my issue so far has been an arduous process of trial and error. Still I’m thankful for this video, it seems like you understand so much more about tendonitis than all of my doctors did combined. I feel like I’ve learned so much more about my injury in just 8 minutes, and I’m so grateful for that! Tendonitis is such a common problem, and it’s work like yours that can help spare so many people of lives filled with chronic pain
I have tednonitis that hasn't healed with rest for a year now. It started when I have been trying to do pull ups. I initially did eccentric pull ups and then inverted rows and Jack knife pull ups from which I got inflamed forearms especially in the inner elbow region. This healed first time with a month rest but it recurred when I went to do the same routine again. After a month there wasn't any pain but I rested a few months more. The very day I started with the inverted rows I worked out till failure. There was no pain but when I woke up next morning I could hardly move my arms, they were very tight and painful to every movement especially around the inner elbows. It's been a year now and I have no pain in my right arm but sometimes there is pain in my my left inner elbows, my left shoulder and my left armpit (not constant pain) which tells me the injury is still there. I am afraid to start any workouts. what should I do?
Rest doesn't fix tendonitis. www.TendonitisExpert.com/rest.html I think you should reverse the tendonitis dynamic and get your forearms back to being able to function correctly. www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html It focuses on forearms which will help wrist to elbow. Then let's see what's what with your shoulder area.
Chronic tendinitis is actually usually tendonosis which means the cell structure inside the given tendon has experienced damage via many micro-tears and can be essentially frayed and may have some scar tissue. That can take a few months to a year to fix and requires eccentric physical training.
That sounds great, except that A. Most people doing eccentric physical training don't have their tendonosis fixed by it, and B. the above explanation ignores how/why the tendonosis developed in the first place. Why did those micro-tears happen, why didn't they heal (instead of getting worse and worse), etc? Why/how would a few months to a year of eccentrics fix the frayed and scar tissue mechanics of tendonosis?
@@TendonitisExpert A micro tear is not an acute injury. Many micro tears = repeated stressful activity for the tendon (ie lifting weights too often without proper recovery). If somebody develops pain in a tendon area related to a stressful activity and ignores it and does not give it adequate rest, it will usually become tendinopathy/tendinosis because they've ignored the initial tendonitis pain and inflammation. This tendinopathy tends to be really just advanced tendonitis hence why people mix the terms so often. The main difference is that tendonitis represents the initial irritation and tendinosis represents a further breakdown and actual damage to the tendon itself and this is why tendinosis is chronic. Tendinosis areas may not actually be inflamed much at all anymore and the exact mechanisms of tendon pain are not known but inflammation is one cause and is common to tendonitis. I had tendinosis in my knee for a year and a half (had a job that required loads of walking around and my boots were NOT the right kind for that job) and I could not even run or really even jump anymore without causing pain to flair up. Only by adding eccentric exercise that I very very slowly increased the resistance to with my usual stretching/massaging routine did my condition improve. I read about 6 research papers and I know there is a very real and very technical difference between the two conditions. The tendon was literally messed up from many micro-tears in the tendon fibers that healed partially and scarred some and "frayed" some. See examples of extracted tendon tissue with tendinosis on google. The tendons get very poor blood-flow and are made of mostly collagen, this is why they heal like crap. Bad flow of nutrients and collagen is not a staple in anyone's diets(the body synthesizes it from non-common amino acids). Eccentric exercise with a slowly increasing resistance brings blood to the tendon and an adequate amount of stress to stimulate collagen synthesis and repair. Without this exercise the condition can truly take an indefinite amount of time to heal on its own. Some people suffer for years. I later discovered that nominal levels of vitamin C and large doses of type 2 hydrolyzed collagen (about 15 grams) an hour before exercise (or it wont help because hardly any of the aminos will make it to the tendon without the exercise and stimulus) will speed up the process and reduce pain. I no longer have an ounce of pain in my knee. I used this same knowledge to take care of my wrists that developed tendinosis after what was just tendonitis from lifting with a barbell too often. I would notice that the pain would set in and stay weeks and easily come back whereas before it would flair up and go away within a couple days of lifting. It is important to remember that any physical activity that may have caused the issue needs to stop or be greatly reduced for some time to ensure the tendon is able to heal correctly. Then the activity can be taken up again but slowly and cautiously. In the case of my wrists I had to stop lifting in ways (barbell) that would stress my wrists. I gave them a few weeks of easier activity and some light but focused training plus the vitamin c and collagen. I also stretched and massaged them. My wrists are better now, but I'm still easing back into my old lifts and I'm taking more time to recover to be safe. NOTE total recovery time from tendinosis depends on how damaged the tendon is/was (and if you proceed to tend to it correctly and consistently).
I didn't say that micro tears were an acute injury. The paradigm you're describing isn't necessarily incorrect. But it looks at the 'tendon damage' in isolation, as if that's the only factor. It ignores the role that muscles play in a tendon's ability to handle/withstand a load. For instance, muscles absorb force. The less functional a muscle is (too tight), the less it's able to absorb force and that force has to go somewhere, like the tendon, thus the microtear(s). If 'easing back into' your lifts is your slow but chosen method of recovery, great. Keep at that, as long as it continues to work. Eventually, it won't work anymore (and, sooner than later you'll be right back to declaring that you've overstressed your tendon). At that point, you'll either doggedly keep at the slow/rest/eccentrics tactic, or look for something more effective. Blaming the tendon is a very limited way of looking at the mechanism, which leads to, at best, very slow recovery (of only a single part of a multi-part mechanism, the other parts remain 'bad'...which lead you back to 'overstressed tendons' before too long....when it will take less and less to end up hurting again). Protip: Total recovery time from tendinosis doesn't actually depend on how damaged the tendon is/was.
@@TendonitisExpert is it normal for tendons to tighten or feel swollen while they're healing? Cause now I have pain and tenderness in my index finger, it sorta feels like it's bruised when I try and flex it and it's a bit tender and stiff. Because of that I'm scared my finger is going to lock up. Anything you recommend I could try to keep that from happening?
It's normal for muscles to tighten and pull on tendons and make them feel tight when pain/tenderness is in play, which makes inflammation worse, which makes things tighten, both of which uses up more nutrition, the progressive lack of which causes more tightness, which causes. My only recommendation is to fix the problem. Well, the causes of the problem. www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html
I never get answers from my doctors. They just send me here or there. There IS an underlying problem causing this inflammation!! I have tendonitis in my Achilles, my elbow, my wrists, my fingers literally get stuck in the bent position. I am TIGHT EVERYWHERE!! It’s something I’ve been living with since 2008 when my Achilles tendons got so tight they ruptured. Here I am 15 years later just living with it. I get so frustrated with myself when I wake up walking tight as a dried up rubberband and walk sounding like Rice Krispies. Snap crackle pop. How long can I live like this
Yep. Sucks. And doctors in general have zero clue about your scenario. As evidenced by your last 15 years of no help from the doctor and associated world (PT, etc). Much of what you describe is due to lack of nutrition (over time). And doctors these days just aren't taught about that, nor do they take ten minutes to educate themselves. And nothing can, nor will, fix what you describe if you don't replete the body of necessary nutrition.
I have fasted in a variety of ways before. In general, I'm a fan of occasional fasting. More a fan of intermittent fasting. I in general disagree with the whole 'cleansing' thing. I'd prefer to instead eat in such a way that I don't need to 'cleanse'. 2 gallons of (apple) juice (a day) is like 768g of sugar. A day! Holy crap that's a lot of sugar. That's not cleansing.
Well, it's kind of a tough question to answer. A. I don't heal anybody. I provide a self care protocol and some amount of support. B. Being humans, some percentage purchase, and never bother to read the program. C. Some read it, and half ass the protocol, so get limited if any benefits. D. Some read it, do the protocol some amount, and get results they're happy enough with. E. Some read it, are motivated to fix the problem, do what there is to do, and get the results they want. I don't have any way to have accurate numbers on that, but in general, there's no tendonitis scenario that people can't get minimally 80% recovery/benefit if they do what there is to do. (and sometimes, that's asking me questions if they're not getting the results they want so we can adjust/fine tune/correct). And if one can get 80% better, there's little reason that one then can't get 100% better.
Thanks for the response. I've had pain in my hands for about 1,5 years now. The reason was playing too many piano exercises for too long. It first started at my 2nd fingers knuckle and a little later the wrist would hurt after playing. The same thing for my left hand, but milder. At first it was only that 2nd finger knuckle that bothered me, I have almost not been playing the piano but it didn't get better. Sometimes(especially recently) other finger joints would hurt too. Is this wrist tendonitis? And I've tried ice dipping for 4 days, but the pain got a little worse after that(and also appeared in the forearm suddenly) so I stopped. Would the program help?
Program wouldn't hurt anything. When you start doing something like ice dipping to an established dynamic, you 'stir the pot' so to speak. So it's not surprising that one would feel an uptick in symptoms...do know though that you're feeling what was already in there. Kind of like shinging a flashlight into a dark room, you're consciously picking up on what is already in place.
Mine started suddenly in the gym 4 months ago. I am very despondent and depressed. I can't even get a disgnosis but I can't think it's anything but Tendonitis or Tendonosis.
A year ago I fell on my left hand and injured my wrist. I continued my Gymming after taking a week off. But it made it even worse. Hence, then I consulted a doctor and he gave me an injection. Its been 8 months since. The recovery was slow. Then again it stsrted once I joined Gym again. Now This time I took physiotherapy for the same for 15 days. Even then the pain is not cured. What else should be done now?
Hi. I have had shoulder tendonitis for 3 years, patellar and other tendonitis in both my knees for 2 years, both elbow tendonitis for 1.5 yrs, achilles, forearm, finger tendonitis for 1 year. All of these were caused due to some exercise. I also suspect that I had bad sleeping habits and improper nutrition in college on top of which I exercised, which led to these conditions. I have had relief only from ayurveda which aims to control vata. Sleeping on time and abhyanga have really helped. Although these things keep me functional and keep the pain under check, but the tendonitis is not cured. I want to know if there is a way to cure this thing and go back to my normal life again?
College diets and bad sleep definitely do a number on the body. Yes, tendonitis is reversible. That you have it in multiple areas points to lack of nutrition being a large factor. Have you had any fluoroquinolone antibiotics like cipro/ciprofloxacin, levaquin/levofloxacin, etc?
@@TendonitisExpert I haven't had any of those drugs. I'm also a vegetarian by diet. I have started to take some supplements like Vit C, Vit E, B Complex and Mg2+(thanks to you). Some people have shown great results with Vit E and Mg2+.
I'm 21 in college and I've been experiencing wrist tendonitis for about 8 months now. At the moment, it is affecting both wrists, fingers and forearms all the way up to the elbow and I've recently been experiencing twitching in my left hand. I've been doing stretches to help alleviate the pain but in the long run, it doesn't seem to get any better and my wrists feel very weak. I just wanted your opinion on a few things. 1. The last time i went to get a blood test, the doctor said i had high cholesterol and low vitamin D. Do these factors affect the tendonitis and the healing process in any way? Also, what dietary changes or foods would you recommend to help aid in recovery? 2. Is the twitching a sign of nerve damage or anything of concern? 3. Would it be beneficial to do strengthening exercises with light dumbbells to strengthen the wrists/forearms or would it just aggravate it?
1. Low Vit D can cause tendonitis symptoms, twitching, and a whole host of other possible symptoms. Did the doctor get your Vitamin D level up to 40-60ng/ml or 60-80ng/ml? I sure hope so. What was your actual vitamin d level? Sunshine and/or vit D supplementation is the only way to get enough Vit D in you to matter. Food is not a source of adequate Vit D. 2. If you have actual nerve damage then yes that and the twitching would be a concern. But twitching is common with a tendonitis dynamic and/or a low vit d dynamic. Having said that yes I would be concerned about the twitching and get rid of the causes of the twitching. 3. I don't know. Do some strengthening exercises and see what happens. That would be good info for me to know as it tells us some things either way.
I had to quit my job because of tendonitis, it was hard labour at a fast pace, got a cortison injection, went to physiotherapist for a few months, got better. Until therapy was over, pain started to come back, even getting worse. Now the doctor wants me to wear a cast for 3 weeks to make the inflammation go away.
I have been eating less well because my inability to workout due to tendonitis affects my mental health and appetites. Any particular micro or macronutrient I should be eating?
Ironically, eating poorly makes all that worse. No hyperpalatable food. No processed food. Little to no sugar. More protein/fat less carbs. Sugar, etc, eats up nutrition. Eating nutritionless food by default leaves you with inadequate nutrition. That causes cravings. Hyperpalatable food causes cravings. And more intake of crappy foods. Which has you then feel worse.
@@TendonitisExpert Yes it is a vicious cycle. I saw on your website that I might need calcium, vitamin B, magnesium. Am trying to integrate that more into my diet.
My doctor said I have chronic forearm muscle strain diagnosed with ultrasound , but I feel pain on my wrist tendons. Would stretching and eccentric exercises help?
Did the doctor say WHY you have chronic forearm strain? As in, what is going on that keeps it chronic? Forearm muscles connect to tendons that connect to and cross the wrist. Have you done any stretching and eccentric exercises?
Hi, I get really bad Tendonitis for weeks, sometimes longer than a month when I combine weightlifting with jiu jitsu (I train 5-6x a week). I guess it’s because of all the grabbing and overextending my wrists in the sport. Do you think I could get rid of my Tendonitis long term with stretching and doing mobility exercises for my forearm? I usually treat it with the strongest Creme I can get (Diclofenac) to mitigate the pain and inflammation and ramp up my intake of magnesium and collagen. Thanks a lot for your video and greetings from Germany
"Do you think I could get rid of my Tendonitis long term with stretching and doing mobility exercises for my forearm?" No, because lack of specific nutrition is one of the three main factors of the tendonitis dynamic, and without that base covered, the syptoms either won't go away, or won't go away for very long. Having said that, try it and see what happens. " I usually treat it with the strongest Creme I can get (Diclofenac) to mitigate the pain and inflammation " That's not a treatment. That's at best a temporary pain reducer. It may lower inflammation for a minute, but it doesn't nothing to lesson or remove the causes of the inflammation, so it comes right back. " ramp up my intake of magnesium and collagen." Good.
Thank you very informative. I was thinking trying surgery what would you say ?. i fell down a flight of steps and put my hand out when I fell to the floor. It is now October 8th 2017 and I did it in march . very painful feels like a finger out of joint , skin sensitive like a burn over the wrist and below thumb area,. Fingers all okay but really I am only one handed. can not use it for most everything , pain and drop things etc. so frustrating.
What exactly are they going to do surgery on, and how exactly will that help? (Important questions to ask and get answers to, as on www.TendonitisExpert.com/Quiz-Your-Doctor.html)
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Dealing with foot tendinitis. Ever since i started pt it helped pain around my ankle. Still not healed.. been dealing with this since april. What nutritional things can i take? Is walking okay? My job requires me to walk a lot. I also have tingling on top of my foot. Doctors keep saying it will go away. (Went to 2 different doctors) i thought it was just in my ankle but seems like it can also be behind my calf muscles. Need some advice. Thank you
@@TendonitisExpert this month has been the best for my foot. Pain is pretty much gone. Foot starting to feel normal. Its still a little tingly on my foot. I noticed through out this whole time that the tendinitis kept moving to otger side of my ankle. But im finally starting to feel little more normal in my right leg.
Well that's good. I'm curious about that tingly sensation...and I'm curious whether it's ebbing better/worse or if the causative factors are actually improving some. Walking is not the problem, the muscles inability to function properly is the problem. What are you doing for self care?
@@TendonitisExpert a lot of physical therapy at home, vitamin c, b6, b12 and e every morning, going to a sport chiropractor and hes been poping my hip, back and poped my foot first time. Hes also doing deep tissue massage on my calf. Tingling gotten a little better but its still there. I walk all they long at work so sometimes i just forget about it. He told me to also do donkey kicks because he thought it started with my hip. He also recommended i start slowly running again for half a mile to a mile every other or 2 days slowly. I want to but scared this may flare up again.
Greetings, I have a pain in left pectoralis area due to hard chest training almost 1 year and I have cracking sensations in that area when I stretch the muscle. The doctor says cracks are the cause of pectoralis moving over the tendon. Tried million things but nothing worked. Feels like massage is not working because the pain in deeper in chest and I can't really find the pain with hand or finger. Pain activation is highest when I lift something in front of me ( like weighted front raise). When I do some chest stretching my sternum cracks all over the place. Sorry for a long post but is there any solution for this problem? Thanks!
I'd get the Reversing Wrist Tendonitis program. You don't have wrist tendonitis per se, but the program is all about the forearm (because that's what causes wrist and/or elbow pain, and of course, forearm pain). www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html
I have radial head and wrist tendonitis in right hand sinve 2018. I have taken kenacorte injection and seen physiotherapist since last two months. I am wearing thumb spica splint too. Little bit pain is still there and whenever i do some wirk it starts paining. Please suggest me how to go back to normal life. Doctor now suggests me to take another injectiom or go for surgery. Kindly help me out.
You need to reverse the three primary causes of the symptoms. www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html Corticosteroid injections don't work. Rest doesn't work. Splints don't fix anything.
I had wrist tendonitis and I had splint for 2 weeks. the doctor said you can take off now. I would like to ask is it normal to have pain 4 or 5 in score while strengething?
Ive been doing data entry for 13 years say. The desk was cutting in the ulnar side of both hands. Slight discoloration was there for many years. Numing and pain was associated. Burning pins etc. Also had sharp stabing pains in my forarm tendons that stabing is now gone. Is it likely to ever recover
It should recover. I mean, I guess it's possible it did a little permanent nerve damage from the constant solid compression, but i'd put my money on that the symptoms are coming from A. forearm ecology (including lack of nutrition, a key component of the Tendonitis Dynamic), and/or B. compression at the neck/shoulder form years of poor desk posture etc. Could be other things or something medical, sure, but that's the simplist highest liklihood.
I have tightness on my right wrist. Every time I use a mouse it really hurts. I use to work in a warehouse and it messed up my hand. I haven't worked for 2 /1/2 years - I had a career in computers and had to give it up. I stopped using computers it just hurts my right hand. So frustrating I had a creative job and I love being on a computer now I am stuck. ..I hear the injections make it worse and weaken the tendons over time.
Injections may or may not increase pain, and have other potential risks. But the big problem in my view is that at best, they don't fix anything. So why bother? Ultimately, tightness is the main problem. The tighter strucutures are, the less well they are able to work, and that generall also looks like some flavor of 'pain'. Fix (or even, improve) the ecology of your lower arm and wrist and hand, and get back to working on computers. As a general statement, because sure you could have some variety of medical issue that would complicate the conversation, but as a general sttement, the problem isn't that there's something 'wrong' with yoru hand/wrist, the problem is that nobody has told you how to fix it (nor asked WHY it's hurting in the first place).
What would you recommend someone with severe tendonitis in both forearms from wrist to elbows? Its been 9 weeks, i am on a sick leave but wont be able to hold on a job muvh longer like this and it gives me great pain to even write this. In my job i click a lot and one day the pain started from nowhere. I only graduated in August, not even a year ago, so i couldnt overwork the hands as much. I was on inflammatory meds (diclofenak) but they make me sick, creams do nothing, i tried stretching but later got even more sensitive and the doc told me to do complete rest. I take joint supplements with inflammatory properties and enzymes to boost my poor immunity. I started to eat kurkuma and ginger, tried massages ( even lymfatic ones). I am getting desperate because its not helping. Any advice? Thank you so much
Hello Aneta. 1. Probably the key here is lack of nutrition. The body can't work correctly without it. And while rest and inflammatory meds and creams are terrible strategies that are doomed to fail, if your body doesn't have the nutrition it needs to work properly, it can't (or can't as well as it should) respond adequately to various treatments (like massage, stretching, etc). 2. Unless you have some other medical condition at play, you're suffering from the tendonitis dyanamic: too tight muscle and connective tissue, chronic inflammation process, and lack of nutrition. These three factors work together to cause pain and problem. Just targeting two of these factors means your chances of recovery are low. Just targeting one, even lower. Basically, the ecology of your forearms is poor. You need to alter/benefit the entire ecology. (wrist tendonitis, and elbow tendonitis, and both problems of the entire lower arm ecology). 3. Why do you say you have 'poor immunity'?
TendonitisExpert hi thanks for the answer! I have been sick 5 times in 5 months (traditional cold and bronchitis), i have very high cortisol levels that doctors say blocks partly my immune system - i take enzymes to boost it. I read your vlog and what i took in - is magnesium really the only thing i lack? Thats what i found out under the nutrition part. Coincidentally i have tetania, at certain parts of my life i suffer from severe horrible cramps when i am stressed. Magnesium is the only thing doctors could recommend me and its managable. Funny enough i asked them if my tendonitis isnt worsened by tetania therrfore if i shouldnt increase my Mg intake - they didnt even answer but i took a few tablets here and thete lately. Do you suggest i take good quality Mg for a few weeks and when the worst pain goes away i start to stretch? If i do a stretch now i get cramp and burning sensation. Would that be enough? And by taking Mg and doing stretches while making breaks at work would prevent this in future? Thank you very much for your advice and time.
Kind of a big topic to talk about here, but in short: 1. Maybe you have tetany as a 'thing', but maybe you're just REALLY short on magnesium and have been for a long time. Potentially really complex in some ways, but also potentially really simple. 2. Definitely need to get your immune system working again. Along those lines, do you know your vitamin D level? If not, find out asap. 3. "they didnt even answer" Yeah...... :( Doctors aren't big believers in nutrition. 4. "severe horrible cramps when i am stressed" The body's stress mechanism requires/uses up magnesium. When you're short on magnesium you literally don't deal well with stress. And, muscles require magnesium to stop contracting/relax...and muscle contraction uses up magnesium. So if you're short on magnesium, you can't deal with stress very well (and things feel more stressful than they 'should'), and you get muscle tightness and cramps etc. Also, I'd go totally off of gluten. I could say more about that, but no bread no pasta no gluten. It's inflammatory...and your body has enough going on it doesnt need you pouring gasoline down your gullet.
Hello I had been boxing no breaks I am 19 I get inflamed elbow and cracking noises when extended stiffness has improved a bit I am on 6 weeks rehab now is this permanent and is the cracking clicking normal it's in my shoulders too help should I strech or not
I don't know if it's permanent or not, depends on what you do about it. What's definitely true is that there are factors involved causing the pain/problem, and that if you want to keep boxing and have the pain go away etc, you need to reverse those factors. No, boxing is not one of the factors.
So with one of your programs I can fix my tendonitis on my own without an in persons doctor's help? Because I currently have it in both wrists. And I saw one of your comments about how you disagree with wearing a cast for fixing tendonitis but that's what I got told to do as well. Now in just disappointed in my doctor.
All in all, yes, you should be able to. Get all the help you want from your doctor, of course. If it helps great. If it doesn't, well.... Like an actual hard cast? Or just a splint/brace. 100% no to a hard cast, that's crazy. Splints and braces may be helpful in the very short term, depending.
you don't have a program for me....I have chronic tendonitus on inside of ankle and achilles tendon, what do you suggest? On day 2 or 3 of a flu like illness, in one night, I developed a minor blood clot in calf, causing varicose veins to swell even more, and swollen ankle/tendonitis.. It's been over 3 months now...I imagine the clot came first and caused the tendonitis a few hours later...would I be suitable for your program?
In general, any time a 'clot' comes up in conversation, I'm out. A. That's a conversation to be had with a doctor. B. if you have a clot and I say 'sure my program will help' and a clot breaks free and you end up in the emergency room or worse, bad news for everyone. C. Maybe you have a clot now, maybe you don't, I certainly don't know. Clots are potentially life ending (or worse), so I apologize but I just can't have an opinion about what you should do Having said that, if a clot caused tendonitis symptoms, you in general don't have tendonitis you have clot caused symptoms.
@@TendonitisExpertc.t. scan showed it is a minor clot that will go away by itself. My Doctor said as the pain is localised around ankle tendon, must be tendonitis. X-ray showed is not arthritis.. .If you had a program for inside of ankle, I would buy your program
Ok good. A. The Reversing Achilles Tendonitis program deals with the entire lower leg. Even if one has 'achilles tendonitis', really it's everything in the lower leg, you go hunting for anything tight/tender and chip away at it over time until it isn't. So, if you have tendonitis symptoms that you feel on the inside of the ankle, outside of the ankle, etc, doesn't matter. The target is the ecology of the entire area. B. Avoid manual pressure/massage work/etc on and around the spot of the clot. DO NOT break it loose, presuming it's still there. For the record, I'm not recommending that you do the program, but if you do, be very aware of and wary of the area where whatever clot there is resides. (that goes for anything else you do it life too, getting a massage, foam rolling, letting little kids kick your legs, etc).
Common wisdom is to work around it or avoid it entirely...clots are one of those things where the possible downsides make leaning towards the VERY CONSERVATIVE end of the spectrum a 'safe' choice. I don't know what I'd do in your scenario. Better safe than sorry probably. Maybe it's not a problem, but if it is its BAD news. Well, can be. Not a good choice to end up being wrong about.
Oh? Who is researching it? This is the bare bones basics of how the body works. Established long ago. Of course the explanation could be broadened and made more complex...but this is for people that want to get rid of their pain and limitation...doesn't need to be overly complex.
Finally found some source of info for this. My doctor just said stretch and rest but i have been trying this for a year. Then he said i just need to relax which isnt very pragmatic advice. Having illiopsoas tentonitis (maybe with hip impingment but i hope not) for about a year, maybe longer made me worry. I stopped squatting and deadlift heavy 1 year ago, and stopped the excercises altogether 6 months ago. Things arent getting better. My new fysio is advising me to do core (abs) excersises and some frontal quads, gonna try this for another 6 weeks or so to see if things get better. Good information on this is very hard to find as it seems like such an insignificant condition
I’m not sure how you gave yourself the title “expert” but almost none of what you present is supported by evidence. Chronic tendinitis is tendinopathy or tendinitis. If tightness were the issue 90% of people would have tendinitis. Read Jill Cooks work , she’s a legit expert on the subject. Tendinopathy is fixable but takes time and eccentric work. Don’t trust anyone who called himself an “expert” on RUclips.
"Chronic tendinitis is tendinopathy or tendinitis." Yes, tendonitis is tendonitis, that's true. Thanks for pointing that out. "If tightness were the issue 90% of people would have tendinitis." Maybe you should watch the video before accusing me of random things like 'tightness equals tendonitis'. "Read Jill Cooks work , she’s a legit expert on the subject." I'm aware of Jill Cook. She urges that restoring funciton is critical, as do I. She also states that "rest is bad for tendons." I state that it's terrible as a tendonitis treatment modality. She also states that one shouldn't just concentrate on the tendon, one must also concentrate on the muscle that's attached to the tendon." Which is exactly what I say. So...I guess that means that jill is also presenting unsupported evidence? "Tendinopathy is fixable but takes time and eccentric work." We all choose our treatment paths, if you choose that one, more power too you. If you want to ignore the causes of tendonitis and think that eccentric exercises, despite ignoring the causes of the problem, are a fix, well, good luck. Jill Cook certainly isn't advocating 'time and eccentric work' as a fix.
Can I check that I’ve understood? This was a very helpful video, thank you.
Tension: Light massaging above and below the effected area, e.g bicep and forearm for elbows. 5mins/day? How does exercise or avoidance fit in to this?
Inflammation: how about using strap on ice packs for 10mins 3/day ? A bit more practical
Nutrition: daily magnesium/calcium supplements in addition to a good diet. ( I already eat well, but u never know)
What are your thoughts on using heat after exercise?
I definitely have inflammation, 1year in, not much seems to be working. I’ve been advised to look into the biopsychosocial approach to pain. It’s a bit of a catch 22 therapy if it doesn’t feel like it’s working.
You just repeat yourself over and over and never actually give any solutions.
The video is titled "Why Do You Have Chronic Tendonitis?" Why in the world would you expect it to contain one or more solutions???
Seriously though.
@@TendonitisExpert fair enough . but there are nooo videos in your channel that suggest any solutions whatsoever we would love to see one of those
My solutions come in the form of my programs. Want to fix tendonitis, you need a complete plan of attack. Tips and tricks just aren't going to give you the results you want. 'Do this stretch!' in the vast majority of cases also won't.
There's lots of free videos with what you call solutions. If they work, great! If not, my programs will be here for you.
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with an attitude like that no one will ever buy ur lousy program. where is your credibility btw? how do we even know what u claim is legit. you shady as hell🖕🖕
Lol. Like moths to a flame, some people just can't stop themselves from being attracted to dumb stuff and saying more dumb stuff. God I love the internet.
People buy my programs every day.
"How do we even know??" I don't know, how do you know anything? By trying it and seeing if it works. Funnily enough, doctors, who are 'credible' and not 'shady', don't offer a money back guarantee/give a refund when their services fail to improve or eliminate a problem, nor when they make the problem worse.
I think I got severe tendonitis in my wrist a few years ago, doctors never diagnosed me or gave me a treatment plan, I have to keep working or ill starve. Now its spreading to my other tendons. It's terrible from my arms to my legs. Please listen to this man and work to treat it before it gets worse.
hey, i like your songs. i hope u recovered by now.
I have had tendinitis for nearly nine months it is getting a lot worse and even hurts when I move my wrist and thumb the slightest. I’m not sure what to do
I paid for the E-book but never received it. I don’t know why
Use the contact from on www.tendonitisexpert.com to message me.
Hi Joshua. I am very excited to have found your page and I just very politely wondering what are the credentials or experience that you have which make you the expert on this? Would you please be so good to let me know because I really need help on this.
Hi. I generally bypass this question that I occasionally get. Why? Because credentials don't mean anything. Doctors have credentials, they haven't solved the problem. PT's have credentials, they haven't solved the problem. Etc.
I'll try this as an answer this time: 26 years of specializing in eliminating tendonitis (and tendonitis-related issues). Notice i said specializing in 'eliminating' it, not 'treating' it. Big difference.
I work with the bare bones basics of how the body operates. Which is where the causes of the problem operate. Mostly, people with 'credentials' focus on trying to treat the symptoms. Which is weird, but that's what they do.
Ultimately, the proof is in the pudding. Do the work, get the results.
I have watched several of your videos, and all I've seen is one repeat of the issues over and over.....but no actual solution, i.e. , no discussion of any of the 3 problems. I can only assume that these videos are all just ads to sell your product. Sad
Or, what you could learn from all the repetition (across various different body parts). is that the tendonitis dynamic is the tendonitis dynamic no matter where it shows up, the causes are the same. If you fail to find that concept valuable, and if you're not willing to pay $30 for a complete plan of attack to reverse the dynamic, after presumably spending much more money and time and effort and wasted time/effort with doctors and PT's etc, well, there's tons of free tips and tricks out there on youtube just for you.
Tips and tricks don't work in the long run, and often not in the short run, but hey, they're free.
I mean, YOU could put in the time and effort to research how to reverse the causes I repeated on all my videos. But instead of you putting out that time and effort, I'm supposed to give you the ongoing results of my life's work for free (just like doctors and PT's and every single other health professional do!). In a 6 minute youtube video. Mmm hmm.
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Ah, and there it is. All I was saying is that these videos are an ad to sell your product. That's it. Thank you for confirming that.
Most of us are merely accustomed to watching you tube channels primarily for the education, not for advertisements. Yours are just misleading was my only point.
So...you missed all the education on the videos because there's a one sentence blurb about my product at the end?
Protip: All youtube videos are the front end of a business, even if it's just getting paid for youtube traffic from the ads (which I don't have ads on my videos).
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No.....I didn't miss all the education on your videos. I saw several of them, as I've already mentioned, and discovered that the information was all the same; different tendon, same spiel on a loop.
Yes it's the same. Because the tendonitis dynamic is the tendonitis dynamic no matter where symptoms show up.
I actually recently have been diagnosed with Chronic Tendonitis and it SUCKS. Right now I’m in a boot to help stabilize my foot so it doesn’t get any worse. I had a work injury where I broke my ankle but because I was rushed through my injury and had not had any real treatment the Tendonitis had gotten worse and now I’m in massive amounts of pain 24/7
Yep, that sounds problematic. Broke ankle, was put in a cast, everything tightened up and shrunkwrapped down (making the muscles less functional). Now you're in a boot, that immobilzes the foot, which continues the process of tightening/shrinkwrapping down making things less functional.
Do you have a sense of if the pain is from the break not healing very well (bone), or from all the tightness constantly/chronically compressing the joint and pulling hard on the tendons and other attachments?
Your videos gave me hope. I have gluteal tendinopathy on left side from one year but diagnosed recently. My question: Can we also take NSAIDS to reduce pain and inflammation while we are on rehab Or will it do more harm? I understand that it will not do any good in long term but during rehab it might be helpful to tolerate the exercises. Thank you.
What do you base your conclusions on? Are you referring studies or do you have your own practice?
I do have my own practice, yes.
My conclusions are based on a variety of things. Not studies so much as a study of the bare bones basics of how the body works.
For instance, sometimes people give me a hard time because I assert that nutrition (lack thereof) is involved in a tendonitis dynamic. But when one understands that the body requires nutrition to operate properly...and that it or it's parts can't if they don't have enough of what is needed to operate properly. then it can't.
Hi, I noticed that you don't refer to exercise. I understand your points however in all tendon rehabs there are exercises that strengthen the tendon, what is your intake on that?
Hi Thomas.
My thoughts on that are: do those tendon rehabs work?
And, why exactly do these rehabs believe that the tendon weak?
And, if the tendon is weak, how would exercise make it stronger, when most all people with tendonitis are already using their bodies, so again, why would the tendon be weak? (it's actually a very important question for this topic).
@@TendonitisExpert Thank you for answering. I actually don't know how to answer your questions but I do know that for some people rehabs did work for example Knees over Toes guy (you must have heard of him, he fixed his tendonitis in his knees with exercises)
Anyway is there any way for me to contact you via email I'd like to ask you more questions :)
If symptoms are from 'imbalances' fixable/correctable with exercises of any kind, great. Do it. if it works, great. It certainly can....if the symptoms are from that. Can all knee pain (called tendonitis) be fixed by exercises? No. Are those that are 'fixed' by exercises permanent, or does one need to keep doing the exercises to keep the symptoms away? That's a great question to ask.
You can use the Contact form on my website, or ask here.
Is your program also for tendinosis? I’m an otherwise healthy 40 year-old but getting tendinosis all over my body from triceps to Achilles. It would make sense that it’s some sort of nutritional deficiencies. Or some damage I’m causing by taking too many supplements
a. Yes. (cause) is from the same dynamic.
B. Like...suddenly getting it all over? Why do you think it's tendinosis? Taken any fluoroquinolone antibiotics lately/ever? What supplements are you taking? ('too many' nutritional supplements causing what you describe is unlikely).
@@TendonitisExpert I took Fluoroquinolone for 10 days March 2020. No issues till about four months ago. Still researching and I’m probably going to get on a call with you (if you still offer consultation) when I get my Marek Health bloodwork results but my suspicion is Tonkat Ali. Took it for over a year and I don’t think I cycled off enough. Apparently it lowers estrogen and causes joint issues in a lot of people. I have an MRI showing tendinosis in my left tricep. Now the other tricep while doing extremely light tricep exercises to heal the left one. Left Achilles Got hurt by doing three sets/20 reps of body weight calf raises. Right lat, left bicep, and possibly right forearm are starting to act up with medium intensity workout so I’m stopping working out for now...
I’ve been doing tendinitis/tendinosis exercises for my left arm for the past three months along with peptide TB 500/BPC157/CJC/Ipa. I was making some progress but I stopped the peptides a month ago and I can see things are getting worse. Taking both chicken and beef collagen supplements, C, MSM, glucosamine + chondroitin for the past few weeks but I assume if they’re going to work it’ll be a while. My diet is mostly meat/eggs.
I’ve had patellar tendonitis since 2014 and it’s never seem to go away I’ve did many different kinds of stretches even yoga and took some time off basketball for 7weeks came back and it was still present in my knees
Hi,
I've had tendonosis a lot of times. My problem is not so much healing from them eventhough it takes time as it is not getting them in the first place.... Whenever I get stronger I get them.
I might know of a few things you have not tried yet and which have had great results on past chronic tendonitis. You can try upping your omega 3 intake (1g of epa + dha) per day and combine this with hydrolyzed collagen peptides and vitamin c. It takes around 10 days for the effect to be noticed but this has truly been miraculous.
Really slow resistance training will help restructuring the tendons too.
Have a good day !
@@lezard7100 Hey, i just read your comment and was curious what epa + dha means in that context? i am not a native english speaker.. thank you in advance :)
*Ive been taking collagen+vitamin c for a while now in combination with stretching and cooling but i dont seem to get anywhere with it, do you think the omega3 might bring salvation?
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@@luclo8076 dude don't listen to this clown lmao you can take everything's it won't help nothing can heal thoses injuries, you can drink collagen if the body don't produce it then its useless nothing will heal it i got it since many years i does all the things its did not do anythings.
3 months of tendonitis , did 6 weeks of physical therapy , I want to be able to game again .
6 weeks of PT didn't get you back in the game?
I've had it for about 4 months now so I definitely understand your pain. I'm a gamer as well and definitely miss my favorite pastime 😞. I believe my Tendonitis was caused by too much muscle tightness cuz I was gaming for hours on end during the day, and plus along with the fact that I have to lift things heavy buckets constantly at work. Plus my nutrition intake wasn't all that great either, I started taking vitamins at about a month ago and my symptoms aren't nearly as severe as they once were. And you may have to do more than 6 weeks of physical therapy. Not everybody heals at the same rate ya know?
Plus I've completely stopped gaming for almost a month now and my symptoms are gradually improving.
My healing might not be at the rate that I want but it's better than nothing at all
Hello. Interesting to hear. I've been suffering from two-sided tendinitis Trochanterica since the beginning of the year and I also thought that would be over in 3 to 4 months. But everything that has been tried, NSAID and physiotherapy, have not yet struck! I've been making intermettating fasting for almost 3 decades and always believed me to do something good. Unfortunately, I have fed myself very monotonous in recent years and thus negotiated a deficit in important vitamins and trace elements. Now I'm eating anti-inflammatory food, but there are the other two factors. What could I do there? Greetings from Germany, Thomas
Intermittent fasting is, in general, great.
"Unfortunately, I have fed myself very monotonous in recent years and thus negotiated a deficit in important vitamins and trace elements. Now I'm eating anti-inflammatory food, but there are the other two factors. What could I do there?" Say more about that. Im not sure what you're asking.
Hey, thanks for this informative video. I was just wondering, do you believe anxiety can cause tendinitis? I’ve had anxiety for most of my life and then a while back my tendons by my elbow would hurt (mostly left arm but sometimes right arm too). It felt like everything just seized up and the pain is in my tendon but sometimes radiates up to my upper arm. My shoulder also has the same issue sometimes and is tender to touch. Just wanted your opinion, I’ve read articles that link anxiety to all types of muscle pain but everyone seems to think differently!
Yes. That falls under the 'lack of nutrition' factor. Anxiety eats up magnesium (also, anxiety is a symptom of magnesium insufficiency). Lack of magnesium tightens muscle...which pull on tendons. So you end up being more and more anxious and muscles get more and more tight over time as your body has less and less magnesium (so it can't operate properly).
@@TendonitisExpert Got it, thanks for the reply! I use magnesium but I use a lower dose. I shall up my dose slightly (still within recommended levels) and see if this helps!
Hello, I wanted to add that I got tendonitis for the first time, when I was very stressed, tense (even physically, I was unconsciously clenching up my muscles constantly) and anxious, I developed all kinds of stress related health problems and tendinosis. Also, sings of magnesium deficiency, like muscle spasms. I hope you sort out your anxiety issues, good luck ❤️
@@TendonitisExpert you say on your website not to use magnesium oxide? why is that. just bought magnesium supplement, but its the oxide. so is it useless? do i need to get a different mag suppliment
Mag oxide is less bioavailable, by a lot, compared to most other options. Granted, there are some who say that while it is less bioavailable, there's WAY more in it, so it works out to about the same. I don't know for sure, so I say avoid mag oxide.
Having said that, if that's what you have, it's at least better than nothing. If return isn't really an option, I'd go through that bottle, and next time get something else. Or get something else, and take them together (and then get something else when the oxide is gone).
Hi Joshua I ordered your book but it’s not in my email yet. It’s been several hours. I contacted you via your site. Need your help ASAP. Very desperate for a solution and anxious to start your programs
We got that figured out, yes?
I’ve had tendonitis in my dominant hand for nearly four years now (from the knuckle of my pinky, up to the outer side of my wrist and all the way up my underarm). I got this from drawing and writing too much, and my physio and doctor had almost no clue how to effectively deal with it. Over the first year or so it got a lot better, but it’s never really been ‘good’ again. I live with some amount of hand/wrist pain every day of my life, and had to essentially give up my aspirations to become a full time artist as my dream career.
I’m doubtful that it will heal properly in the nearest future, despite my routines of stretching and exercise. I guess my main problem is that no doctor I’ve ever been to has seen tendonitis taken this shape in a hand before, they normally deal with common sports injuries, and so trying to fix my issue so far has been an arduous process of trial and error.
Still I’m thankful for this video, it seems like you understand so much more about tendonitis than all of my doctors did combined. I feel like I’ve learned so much more about my injury in just 8 minutes, and I’m so grateful for that! Tendonitis is such a common problem, and it’s work like yours that can help spare so many people of lives filled with chronic pain
Same, this shit sucks
Same fucked up boat
No ideia if I will be able to work or not
I have tednonitis that hasn't healed with rest for a year now. It started when I have been trying to do pull ups. I initially did eccentric pull ups and then inverted rows and Jack knife pull ups from which I got inflamed forearms especially in the inner elbow region. This healed first time with a month rest but it recurred when I went to do the same routine again. After a month there wasn't any pain but I rested a few months more. The very day I started with the inverted rows I worked out till failure. There was no pain but when I woke up next morning I could hardly move my arms, they were very tight and painful to every movement especially around the inner elbows. It's been a year now and I have no pain in my right arm but sometimes there is pain in my my left inner elbows, my left shoulder and my left armpit (not constant pain) which tells me the injury is still there. I am afraid to start any workouts. what should I do?
Rest doesn't fix tendonitis. www.TendonitisExpert.com/rest.html
I think you should reverse the tendonitis dynamic and get your forearms back to being able to function correctly.
www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html It focuses on forearms which will help wrist to elbow. Then let's see what's what with your shoulder area.
Chronic tendinitis is actually usually tendonosis which means the cell structure inside the given tendon has experienced damage via many micro-tears and can be essentially frayed and may have some scar tissue. That can take a few months to a year to fix and requires eccentric physical training.
That sounds great, except that A. Most people doing eccentric physical training don't have their tendonosis fixed by it, and B. the above explanation ignores how/why the tendonosis developed in the first place.
Why did those micro-tears happen, why didn't they heal (instead of getting worse and worse), etc?
Why/how would a few months to a year of eccentrics fix the frayed and scar tissue mechanics of tendonosis?
@@TendonitisExpert A micro tear is not an acute injury. Many micro tears = repeated stressful activity for the tendon (ie lifting weights too often without proper recovery). If somebody develops pain in a tendon area related to a stressful activity and ignores it and does not give it adequate rest, it will usually become tendinopathy/tendinosis because they've ignored the initial tendonitis pain and inflammation. This tendinopathy tends to be really just advanced tendonitis hence why people mix the terms so often. The main difference is that tendonitis represents the initial irritation and tendinosis represents a further breakdown and actual damage to the tendon itself and this is why tendinosis is chronic. Tendinosis areas may not actually be inflamed much at all anymore and the exact mechanisms of tendon pain are not known but inflammation is one cause and is common to tendonitis. I had tendinosis in my knee for a year and a half (had a job that required loads of walking around and my boots were NOT the right kind for that job) and I could not even run or really even jump anymore without causing pain to flair up. Only by adding eccentric exercise that I very very slowly increased the resistance to with my usual stretching/massaging routine did my condition improve. I read about 6 research papers and I know there is a very real and very technical difference between the two conditions. The tendon was literally messed up from many micro-tears in the tendon fibers that healed partially and scarred some and "frayed" some. See examples of extracted tendon tissue with tendinosis on google. The tendons get very poor blood-flow and are made of mostly collagen, this is why they heal like crap. Bad flow of nutrients and collagen is not a staple in anyone's diets(the body synthesizes it from non-common amino acids). Eccentric exercise with a slowly increasing resistance brings blood to the tendon and an adequate amount of stress to stimulate collagen synthesis and repair. Without this exercise the condition can truly take an indefinite amount of time to heal on its own. Some people suffer for years. I later discovered that nominal levels of vitamin C and large doses of type 2 hydrolyzed collagen (about 15 grams) an hour before exercise (or it wont help because hardly any of the aminos will make it to the tendon without the exercise and stimulus) will speed up the process and reduce pain. I no longer have an ounce of pain in my knee. I used this same knowledge to take care of my wrists that developed tendinosis after what was just tendonitis from lifting with a barbell too often. I would notice that the pain would set in and stay weeks and easily come back whereas before it would flair up and go away within a couple days of lifting. It is important to remember that any physical activity that may have caused the issue needs to stop or be greatly reduced for some time to ensure the tendon is able to heal correctly. Then the activity can be taken up again but slowly and cautiously. In the case of my wrists I had to stop lifting in ways (barbell) that would stress my wrists. I gave them a few weeks of easier activity and some light but focused training plus the vitamin c and collagen. I also stretched and massaged them. My wrists are better now, but I'm still easing back into my old lifts and I'm taking more time to recover to be safe. NOTE total recovery time from tendinosis depends on how damaged the tendon is/was (and if you proceed to tend to it correctly and consistently).
I didn't say that micro tears were an acute injury.
The paradigm you're describing isn't necessarily incorrect. But it looks at the 'tendon damage' in isolation, as if that's the only factor. It ignores the role that muscles play in a tendon's ability to handle/withstand a load. For instance, muscles absorb force. The less functional a muscle is (too tight), the less it's able to absorb force and that force has to go somewhere, like the tendon, thus the microtear(s).
If 'easing back into' your lifts is your slow but chosen method of recovery, great. Keep at that, as long as it continues to work. Eventually, it won't work anymore (and, sooner than later you'll be right back to declaring that you've overstressed your tendon). At that point, you'll either doggedly keep at the slow/rest/eccentrics tactic, or look for something more effective.
Blaming the tendon is a very limited way of looking at the mechanism, which leads to, at best, very slow recovery (of only a single part of a multi-part mechanism, the other parts remain 'bad'...which lead you back to 'overstressed tendons' before too long....when it will take less and less to end up hurting again).
Protip: Total recovery time from tendinosis doesn't actually depend on how damaged the tendon is/was.
@@TendonitisExpert is it normal for tendons to tighten or feel swollen while they're healing? Cause now I have pain and tenderness in my index finger, it sorta feels like it's bruised when I try and flex it and it's a bit tender and stiff. Because of that I'm scared my finger is going to lock up. Anything you recommend I could try to keep that from happening?
It's normal for muscles to tighten and pull on tendons and make them feel tight when pain/tenderness is in play, which makes inflammation worse, which makes things tighten, both of which uses up more nutrition, the progressive lack of which causes more tightness, which causes.
My only recommendation is to fix the problem. Well, the causes of the problem. www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html
I never get answers from my doctors. They just send me here or there. There IS an underlying problem causing this inflammation!! I have tendonitis in my Achilles, my elbow, my wrists, my fingers literally get stuck in the bent position. I am TIGHT EVERYWHERE!! It’s something I’ve been living with since 2008 when my Achilles tendons got so tight they ruptured. Here I am 15 years later just living with it. I get so frustrated with myself when I wake up walking tight as a dried up rubberband and walk sounding like Rice Krispies. Snap crackle pop. How long can I live like this
Yep. Sucks. And doctors in general have zero clue about your scenario. As evidenced by your last 15 years of no help from the doctor and associated world (PT, etc).
Much of what you describe is due to lack of nutrition (over time). And doctors these days just aren't taught about that, nor do they take ten minutes to educate themselves. And nothing can, nor will, fix what you describe if you don't replete the body of necessary nutrition.
Juice fast 5-7 litres a day. Cold pressed. Hydrates cleans repairs
Mmm, nothing but sugar water for days. Yum!
@@TendonitisExpert youve tried juice fast to cleanse the body? Or would that be stupid?
I have fasted in a variety of ways before. In general, I'm a fan of occasional fasting. More a fan of intermittent fasting.
I in general disagree with the whole 'cleansing' thing. I'd prefer to instead eat in such a way that I don't need to 'cleanse'.
2 gallons of (apple) juice (a day) is like 768g of sugar. A day! Holy crap that's a lot of sugar. That's not cleansing.
What's the ratio of patients you were able to heal?
Well, it's kind of a tough question to answer.
A. I don't heal anybody. I provide a self care protocol and some amount of support.
B. Being humans, some percentage purchase, and never bother to read the program.
C. Some read it, and half ass the protocol, so get limited if any benefits.
D. Some read it, do the protocol some amount, and get results they're happy enough with.
E. Some read it, are motivated to fix the problem, do what there is to do, and get the results they want.
I don't have any way to have accurate numbers on that, but in general, there's no tendonitis scenario that people can't get minimally 80% recovery/benefit if they do what there is to do. (and sometimes, that's asking me questions if they're not getting the results they want so we can adjust/fine tune/correct). And if one can get 80% better, there's little reason that one then can't get 100% better.
Thanks for the response. I've had pain in my hands for about 1,5 years now. The reason was playing too many piano exercises for too long. It first started at my 2nd fingers knuckle and a little later the wrist would hurt after playing. The same thing for my left hand, but milder. At first it was only that 2nd finger knuckle that bothered me, I have almost not been playing the piano but it didn't get better. Sometimes(especially recently) other finger joints would hurt too. Is this wrist tendonitis?
And I've tried ice dipping for 4 days, but the pain got a little worse after that(and also appeared in the forearm suddenly) so I stopped. Would the program help?
Program wouldn't hurt anything.
When you start doing something like ice dipping to an established dynamic, you 'stir the pot' so to speak. So it's not surprising that one would feel an uptick in symptoms...do know though that you're feeling what was already in there. Kind of like shinging a flashlight into a dark room, you're consciously picking up on what is already in place.
Mine started suddenly in the gym 4 months ago. I am very despondent and depressed. I can't even get a disgnosis but I can't think it's anything but Tendonitis or Tendonosis.
@@LN_1214How you doing now?
I am an abide artist and have chronic tendinitis for years, but I can't give up drawing. Any recommendations?
I would start here: www.tendonitisexpert.com/what-is-tendonitis.html
A year ago I fell on my left hand and injured my wrist. I continued my Gymming after taking a week off. But it made it even worse. Hence, then I consulted a doctor and he gave me an injection. Its been 8 months since. The recovery was slow. Then again it stsrted once I joined Gym again.
Now This time I took physiotherapy for the same for 15 days. Even then the pain is not cured. What else should be done now?
How are things now? Update please.
Hi. I have had shoulder tendonitis for 3 years, patellar and other tendonitis in both my knees for 2 years, both elbow tendonitis for 1.5 yrs, achilles, forearm, finger tendonitis for 1 year. All of these were caused due to some exercise. I also suspect that I had bad sleeping habits and improper nutrition in college on top of which I exercised, which led to these conditions. I have had relief only from ayurveda which aims to control vata. Sleeping on time and abhyanga have really helped. Although these things keep me functional and keep the pain under check, but the tendonitis is not cured.
I want to know if there is a way to cure this thing and go back to my normal life again?
College diets and bad sleep definitely do a number on the body.
Yes, tendonitis is reversible. That you have it in multiple areas points to lack of nutrition being a large factor.
Have you had any fluoroquinolone antibiotics like cipro/ciprofloxacin, levaquin/levofloxacin, etc?
@@TendonitisExpert I haven't had any of those drugs. I'm also a vegetarian by diet. I have started to take some supplements like Vit C, Vit E, B Complex and Mg2+(thanks to you). Some people have shown great results with Vit E and Mg2+.
I'm 21 in college and I've been experiencing wrist tendonitis for about 8 months now. At the moment, it is affecting both wrists, fingers and forearms all the way up to the elbow and I've recently been experiencing twitching in my left hand. I've been doing stretches to help alleviate the pain but in the long run, it doesn't seem to get any better and my wrists feel very weak. I just wanted your opinion on a few things.
1. The last time i went to get a blood test, the doctor said i had high cholesterol and low vitamin D. Do these factors affect the tendonitis and the healing process in any way? Also, what dietary changes or foods would you recommend to help aid in recovery?
2. Is the twitching a sign of nerve damage or anything of concern?
3. Would it be beneficial to do strengthening exercises with light dumbbells to strengthen the wrists/forearms or would it just aggravate it?
1. Low Vit D can cause tendonitis symptoms, twitching, and a whole host of other possible symptoms. Did the doctor get your Vitamin D level up to 40-60ng/ml or 60-80ng/ml? I sure hope so.
What was your actual vitamin d level?
Sunshine and/or vit D supplementation is the only way to get enough Vit D in you to matter. Food is not a source of adequate Vit D.
2. If you have actual nerve damage then yes that and the twitching would be a concern. But twitching is common with a tendonitis dynamic and/or a low vit d dynamic. Having said that yes I would be concerned about the twitching and get rid of the causes of the twitching.
3. I don't know. Do some strengthening exercises and see what happens. That would be good info for me to know as it tells us some things either way.
I had to quit my job because of tendonitis, it was hard labour at a fast pace, got a cortison injection, went to physiotherapist for a few months, got better. Until therapy was over, pain started to come back, even getting worse. Now the doctor wants me to wear a cast for 3 weeks to make the inflammation go away.
Why, how is immobilization for three weeks going to make inflammation go away, and/or fix any of the causes of the tendinitis problem?
I have been eating less well because my inability to workout due to tendonitis affects my mental health and appetites. Any particular micro or macronutrient I should be eating?
Ironically, eating poorly makes all that worse. No hyperpalatable food. No processed food. Little to no sugar. More protein/fat less carbs.
Sugar, etc, eats up nutrition. Eating nutritionless food by default leaves you with inadequate nutrition. That causes cravings. Hyperpalatable food causes cravings. And more intake of crappy foods. Which has you then feel worse.
@@TendonitisExpert Yes it is a vicious cycle. I saw on your website that I might need calcium, vitamin B, magnesium. Am trying to integrate that more into my diet.
Don't need calcium (supplementation). Even the Standard American Diet (SAD) has plenty of calcium.
My doctor said I have chronic forearm muscle strain diagnosed with ultrasound , but I feel pain on my wrist tendons. Would stretching and eccentric exercises help?
Did the doctor say WHY you have chronic forearm strain? As in, what is going on that keeps it chronic?
Forearm muscles connect to tendons that connect to and cross the wrist.
Have you done any stretching and eccentric exercises?
He didn’t say, but I don’t feel pain in my forearm muscles only the inner wrist which comes and goes. I feel painless clicks when I pinch.
Forearm muscle strain/tightness would result in wrist pain, as the tendons that attach to forearm muscles attach to wrist and hand.
Hi, I get really bad Tendonitis for weeks, sometimes longer than a month when I combine weightlifting with jiu jitsu (I train 5-6x a week). I guess it’s because of all the grabbing and overextending my wrists in the sport.
Do you think I could get rid of my Tendonitis long term with stretching and doing mobility exercises for my forearm? I usually treat it with the strongest Creme I can get (Diclofenac) to mitigate the pain and inflammation and ramp up my intake of magnesium and collagen.
Thanks a lot for your video and greetings from Germany
I have to add that most of the times I feel pain and tightness in my hand as well (pretty much in the thumb area of my palm?
"Do you think I could get rid of my Tendonitis long term with stretching and doing mobility exercises for my forearm?"
No, because lack of specific nutrition is one of the three main factors of the tendonitis dynamic, and without that base covered, the syptoms either won't go away, or won't go away for very long. Having said that, try it and see what happens.
" I usually treat it with the strongest Creme I can get (Diclofenac) to mitigate the pain and inflammation "
That's not a treatment. That's at best a temporary pain reducer. It may lower inflammation for a minute, but it doesn't nothing to lesson or remove the causes of the inflammation, so it comes right back.
" ramp up my intake of magnesium and collagen." Good.
Thank you very informative. I was thinking trying surgery what would you say ?. i fell down a flight of steps and put my hand out when I fell to the floor. It is now October 8th 2017 and I did it in march . very painful feels like a finger out of joint , skin sensitive like a burn over the wrist and below thumb area,. Fingers all okay but really I am only one handed. can not use it for most everything , pain and drop things etc. so frustrating.
What exactly are they going to do surgery on, and how exactly will that help? (Important questions to ask and get answers to, as on www.TendonitisExpert.com/Quiz-Your-Doctor.html)
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It is 10 months from i have got adductor tendonitis in the pupic in both right and left. What can I do
You're talking about your pubic bone, and adductors on both legs?
Dealing with foot tendinitis. Ever since i started pt it helped pain around my ankle. Still not healed.. been dealing with this since april. What nutritional things can i take? Is walking okay? My job requires me to walk a lot. I also have tingling on top of my foot. Doctors keep saying it will go away. (Went to 2 different doctors) i thought it was just in my ankle but seems like it can also be behind my calf muscles. Need some advice. Thank you
Has it gone away yet like the doctors said it will?
@@TendonitisExpert this month has been the best for my foot. Pain is pretty much gone. Foot starting to feel normal. Its still a little tingly on my foot. I noticed through out this whole time that the tendinitis kept moving to otger side of my ankle. But im finally starting to feel little more normal in my right leg.
Well that's good. I'm curious about that tingly sensation...and I'm curious whether it's ebbing better/worse or if the causative factors are actually improving some.
Walking is not the problem, the muscles inability to function properly is the problem.
What are you doing for self care?
@@TendonitisExpert a lot of physical therapy at home, vitamin c, b6, b12 and e every morning, going to a sport chiropractor and hes been poping my hip, back and poped my foot first time. Hes also doing deep tissue massage on my calf. Tingling gotten a little better but its still there. I walk all they long at work so sometimes i just forget about it. He told me to also do donkey kicks because he thought it started with my hip. He also recommended i start slowly running again for half a mile to a mile every other or 2 days slowly. I want to but scared this may flare up again.
Greetings, I have a pain in left pectoralis area due to hard chest training almost 1 year and I have cracking sensations in that area when I stretch the muscle. The doctor says cracks are the cause of pectoralis moving over the tendon. Tried million things but nothing worked. Feels like massage is not working because the pain in deeper in chest and I can't really find the pain with hand or finger. Pain activation is highest when I lift something in front of me ( like weighted front raise). When I do some chest stretching my sternum cracks all over the place. Sorry for a long post but is there any solution for this problem? Thanks!
Ultimately, I'd suggest the Reversing Pulled Chest Muscle program. www.tendonitisexpert.com/reversing-pulled-chest-muscle.html
Stuck too tight. Connective tissue compressing. Won't relax when massaged (nutritional insufficiency, and/or unskilled massage but definitely nutritional insufficiency).
Thank you for the reply! @@TendonitisExpert
how is the pec tendon rn
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I have forearm tendinitis both arms (flexor carpi ulnaris) right in the middle of my forearm, what dvd should i buy?
I'd get the Reversing Wrist Tendonitis program. You don't have wrist tendonitis per se, but the program is all about the forearm (because that's what causes wrist and/or elbow pain, and of course, forearm pain). www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html
I have radial head and wrist tendonitis in right hand sinve 2018. I have taken kenacorte injection and seen physiotherapist since last two months. I am wearing thumb spica splint too. Little bit pain is still there and whenever i do some wirk it starts paining. Please suggest me how to go back to normal life. Doctor now suggests me to take another injectiom or go for surgery. Kindly help me out.
You need to reverse the three primary causes of the symptoms.
www.TendonitisExpert.com/reversing-wrist-tendonitis.html
Corticosteroid injections don't work. Rest doesn't work. Splints don't fix anything.
I had wrist tendonitis and I had splint for 2 weeks. the doctor said you can take off now. I would like to ask is it normal to have pain 4 or 5 in score while strengething?
Strengthening generally doesn't work, so yes, entirely common to have pain anywhere on the pain score.
Ive been doing data entry for 13 years say. The desk was cutting in the ulnar side of both hands. Slight discoloration was there for many years. Numing and pain was associated. Burning pins etc. Also had sharp stabing pains in my forarm tendons that stabing is now gone. Is it likely to ever recover
It should recover. I mean, I guess it's possible it did a little permanent nerve damage from the constant solid compression, but i'd put my money on that the symptoms are coming from A. forearm ecology (including lack of nutrition, a key component of the Tendonitis Dynamic), and/or B. compression at the neck/shoulder form years of poor desk posture etc. Could be other things or something medical, sure, but that's the simplist highest liklihood.
I have tightness on my right wrist. Every time I use a mouse it really hurts. I use to work in a warehouse and it messed up my hand. I haven't worked for 2 /1/2 years - I had a career in computers and had to give it up. I stopped using computers it just hurts my right hand. So frustrating I had a creative job and I love being on a computer now I am stuck. ..I hear the injections make it worse and weaken the tendons over time.
Injections may or may not increase pain, and have other potential risks. But the big problem in my view is that at best, they don't fix anything. So why bother?
Ultimately, tightness is the main problem. The tighter strucutures are, the less well they are able to work, and that generall also looks like some flavor of 'pain'.
Fix (or even, improve) the ecology of your lower arm and wrist and hand, and get back to working on computers.
As a general statement, because sure you could have some variety of medical issue that would complicate the conversation, but as a general sttement, the problem isn't that there's something 'wrong' with yoru hand/wrist, the problem is that nobody has told you how to fix it (nor asked WHY it's hurting in the first place).
Electrolysis EPTE is a very effective therapy in tennis elbow treatment
Why do you think that?
It 100% ignores all the causes of the tendonopathy. So what about it is very effective?
What would you recommend someone with severe tendonitis in both forearms from wrist to elbows? Its been 9 weeks, i am on a sick leave but wont be able to hold on a job muvh longer like this and it gives me great pain to even write this. In my job i click a lot and one day the pain started from nowhere. I only graduated in August, not even a year ago, so i couldnt overwork the hands as much. I was on inflammatory meds (diclofenak) but they make me sick, creams do nothing, i tried stretching but later got even more sensitive and the doc told me to do complete rest. I take joint supplements with inflammatory properties and enzymes to boost my poor immunity. I started to eat kurkuma and ginger, tried massages ( even lymfatic ones). I am getting desperate because its not helping. Any advice? Thank you so much
Hello Aneta.
1. Probably the key here is lack of nutrition. The body can't work correctly without it. And while rest and inflammatory meds and creams are terrible strategies that are doomed to fail, if your body doesn't have the nutrition it needs to work properly, it can't (or can't as well as it should) respond adequately to various treatments (like massage, stretching, etc).
2. Unless you have some other medical condition at play, you're suffering from the tendonitis dyanamic: too tight muscle and connective tissue, chronic inflammation process, and lack of nutrition. These three factors work together to cause pain and problem. Just targeting two of these factors means your chances of recovery are low. Just targeting one, even lower.
Basically, the ecology of your forearms is poor. You need to alter/benefit the entire ecology. (wrist tendonitis, and elbow tendonitis, and both problems of the entire lower arm ecology).
3. Why do you say you have 'poor immunity'?
TendonitisExpert hi thanks for the answer! I have been sick 5 times in 5 months (traditional cold and bronchitis), i have very high cortisol levels that doctors say blocks partly my immune system - i take enzymes to boost it. I read your vlog and what i took in - is magnesium really the only thing i lack? Thats what i found out under the nutrition part. Coincidentally i have tetania, at certain parts of my life i suffer from severe horrible cramps when i am stressed. Magnesium is the only thing doctors could recommend me and its managable. Funny enough i asked them if my tendonitis isnt worsened by tetania therrfore if i shouldnt increase my Mg intake - they didnt even answer but i took a few tablets here and thete lately. Do you suggest i take good quality Mg for a few weeks and when the worst pain goes away i start to stretch? If i do a stretch now i get cramp and burning sensation. Would that be enough? And by taking Mg and doing stretches while making breaks at work would prevent this in future? Thank you very much for your advice and time.
Kind of a big topic to talk about here, but in short:
1. Maybe you have tetany as a 'thing', but maybe you're just REALLY short on magnesium and have been for a long time. Potentially really complex in some ways, but also potentially really simple.
2. Definitely need to get your immune system working again. Along those lines, do you know your vitamin D level? If not, find out asap.
3. "they didnt even answer" Yeah...... :( Doctors aren't big believers in nutrition.
4. "severe horrible cramps when i am stressed" The body's stress mechanism requires/uses up magnesium. When you're short on magnesium you literally don't deal well with stress. And, muscles require magnesium to stop contracting/relax...and muscle contraction uses up magnesium.
So if you're short on magnesium, you can't deal with stress very well (and things feel more stressful than they 'should'), and you get muscle tightness and cramps etc.
Also, I'd go totally off of gluten. I could say more about that, but no bread no pasta no gluten. It's inflammatory...and your body has enough going on it doesnt need you pouring gasoline down your gullet.
I still didn't get how to treat it. I felt something pop under my elbow. Now forearm and wrist hurt.
Say more about the 'pop'. What were you doing when you felt something pop? Where exactly was the pop?
Hello I had been boxing no breaks I am 19 I get inflamed elbow and cracking noises when extended stiffness has improved a bit I am on 6 weeks rehab now is this permanent and is the cracking clicking normal it's in my shoulders too help should I strech or not
I don't know if it's permanent or not, depends on what you do about it. What's definitely true is that there are factors involved causing the pain/problem, and that if you want to keep boxing and have the pain go away etc, you need to reverse those factors.
No, boxing is not one of the factors.
@@TendonitisExpert Ok but is Cracking or Clicking Granting sensations with stiffness part of tendonitis? I dont have arthritis
Yes. Tightness compresses joints which causes cracking/clicking when they try to articulate.
@@TendonitisExpert i was doing bench press but my left wrist is paining near the pinky....what should i do...it it a injury or a strain
So with one of your programs I can fix my tendonitis on my own without an in persons doctor's help?
Because I currently have it in both wrists.
And I saw one of your comments about how you disagree with wearing a cast for fixing tendonitis but that's what I got told to do as well. Now in just disappointed in my doctor.
All in all, yes, you should be able to. Get all the help you want from your doctor, of course. If it helps great. If it doesn't, well....
Like an actual hard cast? Or just a splint/brace. 100% no to a hard cast, that's crazy. Splints and braces may be helpful in the very short term, depending.
Did it get better?
Its better to die to got it i got just fourth or even 5 chronic tendinitis all I want is dying just waiting for it right now....
you don't have a program for me....I have chronic tendonitus on inside of ankle and achilles tendon, what do you suggest? On day 2 or 3 of a flu like illness, in one night, I developed a minor blood clot in calf, causing varicose veins to swell even more, and swollen ankle/tendonitis.. It's been over 3 months now...I imagine the clot came first and caused the tendonitis a few hours later...would I be suitable for your program?
In general, any time a 'clot' comes up in conversation, I'm out. A. That's a conversation to be had with a doctor. B. if you have a clot and I say 'sure my program will help' and a clot breaks free and you end up in the emergency room or worse, bad news for everyone. C. Maybe you have a clot now, maybe you don't, I certainly don't know.
Clots are potentially life ending (or worse), so I apologize but I just can't have an opinion about what you should do
Having said that, if a clot caused tendonitis symptoms, you in general don't have tendonitis you have clot caused symptoms.
@@TendonitisExpertc.t. scan showed it is a minor clot that will go away by itself. My Doctor said as the pain is localised around ankle tendon, must be tendonitis. X-ray showed is not arthritis.. .If you had a program for inside of ankle, I would buy your program
Ok good.
A. The Reversing Achilles Tendonitis program deals with the entire lower leg. Even if one has 'achilles tendonitis', really it's everything in the lower leg, you go hunting for anything tight/tender and chip away at it over time until it isn't. So, if you have tendonitis symptoms that you feel on the inside of the ankle, outside of the ankle, etc, doesn't matter. The target is the ecology of the entire area.
B. Avoid manual pressure/massage work/etc on and around the spot of the clot. DO NOT break it loose, presuming it's still there.
For the record, I'm not recommending that you do the program, but if you do, be very aware of and wary of the area where whatever clot there is resides. (that goes for anything else you do it life too, getting a massage, foam rolling, letting little kids kick your legs, etc).
@@TendonitisExpert it's on the calf
Common wisdom is to work around it or avoid it entirely...clots are one of those things where the possible downsides make leaning towards the VERY CONSERVATIVE end of the spectrum a 'safe' choice.
I don't know what I'd do in your scenario. Better safe than sorry probably. Maybe it's not a problem, but if it is its BAD news. Well, can be. Not a good choice to end up being wrong about.
I think it’s too simplified, and the information is still not confirmed, it’s still in research
Oh? Who is researching it?
This is the bare bones basics of how the body works. Established long ago. Of course the explanation could be broadened and made more complex...but this is for people that want to get rid of their pain and limitation...doesn't need to be overly complex.
Finally found some source of info for this. My doctor just said stretch and rest but i have been trying this for a year. Then he said i just need to relax which isnt very pragmatic advice.
Having illiopsoas tentonitis (maybe with hip impingment but i hope not) for about a year, maybe longer made me worry. I stopped squatting and deadlift heavy 1 year ago, and stopped the excercises altogether 6 months ago. Things arent getting better.
My new fysio is advising me to do core (abs) excersises and some frontal quads, gonna try this for another 6 weeks or so to see if things get better.
Good information on this is very hard to find as it seems like such an insignificant condition
Hey man. Did you get better and what did you do ? Its been 5 years since you comment. Im in a similar situation and dont know what yo do!
I’m not sure how you gave yourself the title “expert” but almost none of what you present is supported by evidence. Chronic tendinitis is tendinopathy or tendinitis. If tightness were the issue 90% of people would have tendinitis. Read Jill Cooks work , she’s a legit expert on the subject. Tendinopathy is fixable but takes time and eccentric work. Don’t trust anyone who called himself an “expert” on RUclips.
"Chronic tendinitis is tendinopathy or tendinitis."
Yes, tendonitis is tendonitis, that's true. Thanks for pointing that out.
"If tightness were the issue 90% of people would have tendinitis."
Maybe you should watch the video before accusing me of random things like 'tightness equals tendonitis'.
"Read Jill Cooks work , she’s a legit expert on the subject."
I'm aware of Jill Cook. She urges that restoring funciton is critical, as do I. She also states that "rest is bad for tendons." I state that it's terrible as a tendonitis treatment modality.
She also states that one shouldn't just concentrate on the tendon, one must also concentrate on the muscle that's attached to the tendon."
Which is exactly what I say. So...I guess that means that jill is also presenting unsupported evidence?
"Tendinopathy is fixable but takes time and eccentric work."
We all choose our treatment paths, if you choose that one, more power too you. If you want to ignore the causes of tendonitis and think that eccentric exercises, despite ignoring the causes of the problem, are a fix, well, good luck. Jill Cook certainly isn't advocating 'time and eccentric work' as a fix.
It totally agree with what you have to say TE. It makes sense.
Jamie He owned you. Now fuck off.