I have had a ton of success with eccentric loading for my quadriceps tendonitis (5 months). After 6 weeks I was functioinal again. Now, after almost 12 weeks I’m able to squat 1 day a week without pain.
@Seeker or anyone else that has had sucess with this, did you abandon your normal training and just focus on eccentrics for the injured area or did you do your normal routine and just substituted the eccentrics for what normally hurt?
It is getting to the point where just about everything for upper body hurts, chest movements, etc. Close-grip bench and dips all hurt too. Might have to follow the advice for training jomtos posted in that article for training suggestions. I have a tendency to train heavy (for me) and take longer rest periods, so I am probably overdue to switch it up. I have those voodoo floss bands too, those have their endorsers on here, but I haven’t really figured out how to use those other than wrapping them tightly around the affected area for a bit.
I had quad tendonitis and just about everything aggravated it except pulls. So I did deadlifts once a week and did eccentrics 2x a day 5 days a week. I saw a lot of improvement with that.
Don’t know if this will have the magic bullet effect I seek or not, but I am going to try a product called Astaxanthin. It is a fat-solluble anti-oxidant that apparently has some good anti-inflamatory effects. Worth a try, seems like the science is solid.
After reading this post and doing more research (discovering that the problem may be tendonosis rather than tendonitis), I decided to try the eccentric protocol. I developed Golfer’s Elbow (on the inside of my left elbow) doing careless heavy squats (I’m a dumb ass sometimes). I have been doing the horseshow (??) cable pressdown. I pull the cable down with my good (right) hand and slowly resist the rise with just my left, palm face down. I have done it every day for the past five days. So far, I have seen marked improvement.
I have had the problem for about two months. I kept working out but if I tried an exercise that hurt my elbow I moved on to another exercise (strangely, the neutral grip on chins and pull downs hurt the most)
A strange (to me anyway) discovery was that since the eccentric protocol seemed to call for doing it every day, I decided to train everyday. Full body (just rotate different exercises and angles, but still full body everyday) and the results have been amazing. Not sure how long I should do this before I fry my CNS, but so far I am extremely pleased.
Note: I am 53 and 6’5" and 215. Over training seems to be an excuse most of the time rather than a problem
I have been suffering from tricep tendinitis for 2 years now. Your help will be highly appreciated.
The seeker, can you please lay out the entire plan for tricep tendinitis treatment? And when you are recommending close grip bench dips etc, is it just the negative part?