Dr. John Campbell , team physician for Montana State University, Western Montana College and Montana Tech, has provided his expert opinion on this topic. A. Overuse injuries are very common in today's athletic population. They can be defined as repetitive microtrauma, which is above the level of the involved tissue to adapt.
Tendons are the most common tissue affected.
A tendon is the structure that attaches muscle to bone. If a tendon is affected the term commonly used is tendinits. Microtruama is damage to a tissue at the microscopic level. This usually is caused by repetitive loads to the involved tissue that is over the threshold of the ability of that tissue to heal. Overuse injuries are more common as a population ages.