Home physiotherapy treats an extensive range of health problems. It enables patients to enhance the strength of their muscles, joints, and connective tissues.
Intense exercise or a new workout routine typically results in placing excessive strain on muscle tissue, resulting in EIMD. This damage causes decreased power, range of motion, and endurance, inflammation, and delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in the exercised muscles1.
Tendon strains are one of the most common overuse injuries, usually caused by improper training or biomechanical errors from strength or flexibility impairments. While many people are familiar with the RICE protocol (rest/ ice/ compression/ elevation) used to address tendonitis and tend to gravitate towards this treatment option for injuries, most are unfamiliar with another prevalent type of tendon injury called tendonosis. In fact, by the time most athletes seek medical care for a tendon injury, the condition has progressed out of an acute inflammatory response to a more chronic condition called tendonosis. Tendonitis and tendonosis are treated differently, and to best address an athlete's injury and provide a plan of care, it is important to understand the difference between the two.
