If you’ve ever spent time resting from an injury, only to find that it appears again within weeks of restarting activity this article is for you. Our interview with tendinonpathy expert Dr Alex Nelson, is an important discussion of running with tendonitis and dispels common misconceptions.
Here you’ll find a summary of the Tread Lightly episode interviewing Dr Nelson. We recommend listening to the full episode, which is embedded at the end of the article, for additional details.
What is Tendonitis vs Tendinopathy?
Amongst athletes you’ll hear the term tendinitis tossed around. And if not, you probably have heard things like jumper’s knee or runner’s heel.
Terminology is really important and we’ll talk about that here in a second because tendinitis is often the diagnosis given to people who are battling tendon pain. And the suffix on the end with itis kind of leads people to believe that inflammation is kind of the hallmark sign of this injury and that the inflammation is the primary driver of their symptoms.
Which leads us down a path of trying to reduce inflammation through NSAIDS or ice or rest.
But that isn’t actually going to resolve the issue.
And now, the better term is actually tendionpathy. That way we aren’t confusing maybe an acute injury…
