Talk:Tendinosis

message: Why should tendonitis and tendinosis be merged?  They are different injuries which happen to occur in the same place and which have similar symptoms. 216.254.25.199 06:03, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: as if there is any doubt over if tendonitis and tendinosis should be merged, read this article: Time to abandon the "tendinitis" myth  Mathmo Talk 05:16, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed, from what I know, tendinosis and tendinitis are totally distinct, and the main problem is that there is a widespread cultural use of the term "tendinitis" to refer to what in an overwhelming majority of cases is tendinosis.  Cazort (talk) 17:22, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: I notice that there were a lot of unsourced statements saying things like "tendons rarely recover their original strength" and "treatment of tendon injuries is largely palliative".  On the other hand, the single statement about eccentric loading has eight sources which not only back it up, but contract these unsourced statements.  From a personal perspective, I have twice gone through physical therapy for tendon related injuries, in one case, very straightforward tendinosis.  It was treated successfully by a combination of eccentric exercise followed by rest and return to the original activity, and the tendon is now not only healed, but dramatically stronger than before...muscle weakness in the muscle attaching to that tendon, was the primary cause.  I have no idea where the old ideas came from but since they're totally unsourced, and they contradict the other given sources, I've tried to root out these ideas.  Cazort (talk) 17:31, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Eccentric loading, tendon strength, healing, etc.

message: Does somebodyknow what happened to the site www.tendinosis.org ?  It doesn't answer anymore.
216.221.38.120 (talk) 03:58, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tendinosis.org 

message: The section ends, "Results from the trial are expected by April 2013." Does anybody know if these have been released? It's June 2013, but the section still refers to the future. Yodalover (talk) 04:10, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Tendon Bioengineering

message: At the end of the introduction, without linking or explanation the terms "degenerative changes in the collagenous matrix, hypercellularity, hypervascularity" are used. That is not understandable to someone without a medical degree. Can someone rewrite in less technical language at the beginning. Maximilianklein (talk) 06:08, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Less technical introduction 

message: As of November 2013, researchers at the Seoul National University Hospital will be looking to recruit participants into a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of allogenic adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ALLO-ASC) in treatment of a tendon injury (symptom duration is over six months). ALLO-ASC will be administrated to the patients with lateral epicondylitis (tennis elbow) by ultrasonographic guided injection.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bboyjkang2 (talk • contribs) 21:58, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment of Tendon Injury Using Mesenchymal Stem Cells (ALLO-ASC) - clinical trial 

message: New ultrasound technology - Acoustoelastography - EchoSoft from University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation) and Echometrix - waves not just for vision, but give quantitative data about mechanical characteristics and properties, like stiffness, and functional status of musculoskeletal (tendon and ligament) tissue
Someone at http://www.sorehand.org/ (repetitive strain injury mailing list) posted a link about a new type of ultrasound technology.
http://www.news.wisc.edu/23139
Echometrix was just granted a patent on September 19.
http://wisconsintechnologycouncil.com/newsroom/?ID=2708
Wikipedia should be updated, so I need to find proper peer-reviewed articles with good information about it.
I grabbed some search results from the top of Google scholar.
>(Research has shown that Google Scholar puts high weight especially oncitation counts[20]and words included in a document's title.[21]As a consequence the first search results are often highly cited articles.)
I'll dump some of what I found so far here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iCJE0d1cpUneSrtiEK3oi2H9nuYX812gL6g1rFdfP20/edit#
If you have the time, it's worth reading some of it.
I grabbed the most prominent articles, extracted abstracts, introductions, and concluding discussions, segmented by sentences, made headings, and created a table of contents.
The various articles frequently reference the same thing, so as you read, you sort of get the gist of what they're talking about.
I'll research more later.
I'll figure out what can be added to Wikipedia later.
From this, I'll make a second, smaller document that contains what I think could be added.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bboyjkang2 (talk • contribs) 10:52, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New ultrasound technology - Acoustoelastography - EchoSoft from University of Wisconsin-Madison and Echometrix - give quantitative data about mechanical properties, like stiffness, and status of musculoskeletal (tendon and ligament) tissue