Tendonitis

TENDONITIS: If your joints feel inflamed, especially in your shoulder, knees, or elbow, you may have tendinitis. Tendons are thick cords that join your muscles to your bones. When tendons become irritated or inflamed, the condition is called tendinitis. It causes acute pain and tenderness, making it difficult to move the affected joint. Any tendon can develop tendinitis, but you’re more likely to develop it in your shoulder, knee, elbow, heel, or wrist. Tendonitis can be confused with a muscle strain. The way to distinguish between the two is that with a muscle strain, the pain is felt in the muscle itself, whereas in tendonitis, the pain is felt near where the muscle attaches to the bone.

What is tendonitis vs. tendinitis?

Its just a spelling variant sounds confusing to some patients, both are same 

The confusion regarding these two spellings is complicated further by the fact that tendonitis is one of the two main types of “tendinopathy,” which refers more broadly to any painful condition in or around the tendons caused by overuse. The other main type of tendinopathy is tendinosis. This refers to a degeneration of and small tears in the tendon. A person who experiences recurring tendonitis problems may develop tendinosis, although the latter condition can also arise as a result of an acute injury or other cause.

TENDONITIS TYPES 

1. Achilles tendinitis
2. Golfer's elbow
3. Patellar tendinitis
4. Tennis elbow

TENDONITIS CAUSES

1. Repeated stress on tendons or overuse, causes tendonitis. 
2. Tendonitis can also developed in areas with development of calcium deposits
3. Tendinitis can occur as a result of injury or overuse. Playing sports is a common cause.
4. Tendinitis can devlop in person couse of nature their jobs involving repeated, tume and agianm, putting stress on tendons.
• Repeated motions
• Awkward positions
• A lot of overhead reaching
• Vibration
• Forced movements
5. Some underlying medical conditions can also cause tendonitis, as following:Diabetes.

• Rheumatoid arthritis.
• Gout/pseudo gout.
• Osteoarthritis.
• An infection.

TENDONITIS SYMTOMS

1. Pain, often described as a dull ache, especially when moving the hurt limb or joint
2. Pain at the site of your tendon and the surrounding area. This pain can get worse when you move.
3. Stiff joints or difficulty moving your joints.
4. Hearing and feeling a cracking or popping sensation when you move.
5. Swelling, often with skin discoloration (red to purple or darker than your natural skin tone).
6. Tenderness
7. Mild swelling

TENDONITIS OCCURANCE IN BODY PARTS 

1. Base of your thumb.
2. Elbow, usually along the outer part of the forearm, when your palm is facing up, near where the tendon attaches to the outside part of the elbow.
3. Shoulder.
4. Hip.
5. Knee, usually below the kneecap where your tendon attaches to your lower leg (tibia)

FACTORS

Age : As people get older, After age 40, your tendons tolerate less stress, their tendons become less flexible — resulting as easier to injure.

Work : Tendinitis is more common in people, such as gardeners and manual laborers, whose jobs involve:

Activities : When doing physical activities, the following can increase the risk of tendinitis

1. Sudden increase in amount or difficulty of training
2. Poor equipment, such as old shoes
3. Hard surfaces, such as concrete or gym floors
4. Too little recovery time after an injury or too little time to get used to the activity again after time off
5. Poor posture or body movements

Medical condition and medications :Certain medical conditions, such as diabetes, can increase the risk of tendinitis. Medications that may increase risk include:

1. Antibiotics known as fluoroquinolines
2. Corticosteroids such as cortisone
3. Aromatase inhibitors, used to lower breast cancer risk

TENDONITIS TREATMENTS