The surplus value of defending the tendon integrity in the prevention and management of achilles tendon overuse injuries Ghent University
HIstorically, the term 'tendinitis' was used in order to describe the chronic pain which was associates with a tendon overuse problem. Nowadays, this opinion has changed. The absence of inflammatory cells in biopsies indicates a non-inflammatory degenerative process. Moreover, it has bene hyupothesized in a theoretical model that this degenerative process is a continuum that has three stages: reactive tendinopathy, tendon disreapir and ...