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The initial symptoms of arthritis and tendonitis can feel very similar, so here’s an easy home-diagnosis way to tell the difference: try taking glucosamine for two weeks. If it helps, you likely have osteoarthritis. If not, it’s more likely a tendon problem. What’s the reasoning here? Glucosamine (often packaged with MSM and/or chondroitin) has been …
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I recently received a question from someone who purchased Target Tendonitis. He asked about the advisability of fasting if you have tendonosis, so I thought I’d talk a little bit about nutrition for tendons. Although fasting can have some beneficial effects, I do not advise anyone who is suffering from tendon or fascia problems to …
I recently received a question from a woman who bought Target Tendonitis in hopes of finding a way to heal her plantar fasciitis. The plantar fascia are not technically classified as tendons, but they are composed of collagen fibers, just like tendons, and doctors generally prescribe the same sort of rest/ice/NSAIDs/cortisone shot treatment for the condition. Furthermore, …
The new year is here and since this month also marks the one-year anniversary of this blog, I thought I’d start things off by reiterating the most important single thing I can tell you about tendonitis. So here it is: if you’ve had tendon pain for more than a couple of weeks and have been …
One thing about the internet, there are lots and lots of supposed cures for pretty much everything under the sun. Tendonitis is no exception; you can find bogus remedies like magnesium, bath salts and crystals with the click of a button. But lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of talk about using capsaicin to relieve …
Stretching for tendons. Let’s talk about it. Stretching your muscles regularly is just a good idea all the way around. But there are a lot of people out there who talk about stretching the tendons as well. With tendons the possible benefits are less clear, and unfortunately it’s pretty much impossible to stretch a muscle …
Let’s talk about menthol. Menthol is a naturally occurring compound that comes from mint plants. It produces a cooling effect by stimulating the cold receptors that people have on their skin, sort of a mirror image of how capsaicin stimulates the heat receptors. Capsaicin doesn’t actually raise the temperature of anything, but if you have …
I ran across an interesting (and slightly horrifying) article in the Calgary Herald a couple of days ago (text and link are below). People usually think of tendon pain as something that happens in the larger joints, the elbows, knees, ankles and so on. But it can happen anywhere that there is a repetitive stress …
Nadia Lee, an up and coming writer of romance fiction, interviewed me a few days ago for her blog. She’d been suffering from wrist and forearm pain (mainly minor RSIs stemming from too much typing and mousing) for a few weeks and — after seeing a doctor and getting physical therapy for months — finally …
It’s actually becoming a little hard to remember at this point, but the fact is that before the mid-1970s or so, not many adults exercised on a regular basis. But then a guy named Jim Fixx started the jogging craze, and a few years later a woman named Jane Fonda started the aerobics craze, and …