Tendinopathy is usually seen in:

• Lateral Epicondylitis

• Medial Epicondylitis

• Patellar tendon

• Achilles Tendon

• Rotator cuff

• Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy

 

The affected tendon can feel tender when there has been an increase in activity. Usually, the pain is load-related.

 

In very early tendinopathy, pain may be present at the beginning of an activity and then disappear during the activity itself, only to reappear when cooling down if the activity is prolonged, or to be more

severe on subsequent attempts to be active.

 

Physiotherapy involves, assessing the person's activity to find out what has changed to cause this irritation of the tendon. Eccentric loading of the tendon and deep friction massage.