Tendonitis

I'm sorry to here this, I have tendonitis in both my hands & wrists, I'm ok except for flair ups so I quit doing any kind of exercise where it requires me to put a lot of weight on my wrists, like push ups. I love fitness blender

Le sigh. I've been sidelined by injuries for the past couple of months. Bursitis and tendonosis in my right shoulder and fractured kneecap. I've also got something wacky going on with my outside right hip. It's not interfering with anything yet, but I need to figure out what is causing it. I've been strengthening the heck out of my rotator cuffs and scapula. I still have issues fully getting my arm overhead however. My core is good, my rotators are good now, my scapula is pretty mobile, but everything doesn't seem to be working together. I've laid off of pressing completely for months, but maybe it's still tight pecs.

If you're getting to a pool, can you swim? I have no idea what some of your ailments are, or what restrictions are placed on you, but I had plantar fasciitis and had to get into the water to avoid losing my endurance from running (which led to the PF). I started in a water X class and then decided to try swimming laps (it helps to have swim experience, but I'm living proof that you don't have to have much, lol). I now run 2x a week (it's all my foot allows me) and do water X at least 3x/week with laps. Last week I swam 2 miles for the first time ever. When I swam laps the first time, I made it one length, barely able to breathe. Just a thought. You must be incredibly frustrated after being so active.

yes, as I advance in age, it is a constant battle of one thing after another... like a leaky pipe.. fix a spot and spring a leak down the line.. haha no fun at all...

glacierlilly1 wrote: »

Who has tendonitis all over their body besides me?

I have had in the past - In the span of about 2 years, at one point, I had tendonitis in both shoulders, golfers elbow AND tennis elbow in both elbows, carpal tunnel, plantar fasciitis in both feet, sprained my ankle, pulled muscles in both thighs, and in my feet (so weird), and was often sick with colds or flus.

That said, unless someone is just absolutely going crazily intense in the workouts? The number of injuries you describe rarely happens without something else impacting your body.

For me, I turned out to be a celiac. I was one of the 1/3 of celiacs who get no gut symptoms of any kind when they eat gluten (even though damage is done). Instead, I had problems that arose from the increased inflammation all over my body. Which meant I didn't have to over exercise or overuse any body muscle group for them to be inflamed and then get injured during exercise. Because I was inflamed all the time, whenever I exercised, I would almost always injure something, or even sometimes doing nothing at all.

The disease also makes one vitamin deficient so for me, it resulted in my immune system not having the resources to fight off illness as easily.


Since that happened to me (that was about 8 years ago, now), I've met a lot of other people in the same boat who ended up finding out that they had some source of body-wide inflammation, or some other underlying condition, that was the root cause of so many injuries. low level allergies, for example, or auto-immune disorders, and so on. That's not saying that is what you are having, but it might be worth exploring, if you are just doing normal levels of exercise but still getting so injured.

Hope you are feeling better soon!

Injuries/aggrevations, let's see:

I've got:
-Torn meniscus in both knees (have had since I was a teen)
-Degenerative Disk Disease
-Tendonitis especially in forearms, but have had it flair up in a bicep tendon too
-Currently 15 months post-ORIF (hardware removed Sept) on a tib/fib "pilon" fracture which has left me with limited ROM on my ankle, and still dealing with a lot of atrophy. Thankfully it doesn't seem my joint completely collapsed, so *hopefully* won't be any worse than it is now as long as I keep after it.
-Posterior dislocation of my left shoulder, ironically, to this day this has yet to cause me too many issues
-Plate from a distal radial fracture that somewhat limits my ROM on that wrist (not too much though), but can really cause issues if my tendonitis flares up!

Main thing for me is to pay attention to my body and being able to recognize the difference between "good" pain (such as gainz, breaking up scar tissue, stretching tight tendons and muscles properly, etc) and "bad" pain (over-taxed body parts, injury that needs to rest, etc).

For my knees, keeping up regular balance type work is KEY to keeping all those little stabilizer muscles strong enough where they aren't a problem (unless something catches, in which case I can usually get it back out with some odd moves LOL).

Back is strength, regular stretching and movement, and chiropractor as soon as it starts to bug me, before it has a chance to get out of whack.

Tendonitis is keeping my arms relaxed when I can, ibuprofen as needed (immediately if things are starting to be noticeable to keep it from a full blown blow-up) and worst case, bust out the wrist brace again for a few days.

Ankle, well, that one's gonna be a bear the rest of my life. I'm still making small gains in terms of plantar flexion, but my dorsiflexion is just - well - stuck. Ankle just stops. Not painful persay, just doesn't go any further. My ortho warned me of that way back when, definitely seems to be the case. This causes a number of problems, but doing my best to work around them and watch for "compensations" and fix them before they become too much of a habit.

I still ride and race motorcycles, am returning to my martial art, and don't let these things keep me from living my life.