What causes Tendonitis, really? It's not Repetitive Movement or Repetitive Strain, it's not poor ergonomics, it's not overuse.
Technically Tendonitis is 'Inflammation of a Tendon'.
This is absolutely true, but entirely useless to you if you are trying to figure out how to make your pain go away.
What is the cause of Tendonitis? Whether you have Carpal Tunnel, Tennis Elbow, Wrist Tendinitis, Shoulder Cuff Tendonitis, Plantar Fasciitis or Achilles Tendonitis, it's all the same.
Tendonitis is Tendonitis, no matter where it occurs.
The dynamic is the same.
Every other source of information will tell you that it is from repetitive use, too much use, and complications from bad ergonomic positioning.
Those explanations are also true, but misleading.
Using a body part over and over in poor ergonomic position without rest, can help push your body towards repetitive strain injury.
And if you took time off work or play to let it heal, and then went back to work when the pain was gone and everything was hunky-dory, wouldn't that be great? Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
As you probably know, if you rest, as soon as you get back to the original activity, you start to hurt again.
It is such a common occurrence I am continually surprised that the medical community still officially prescribes rest to their patients.
Here's what you need to know about your tendonitis: The real source of Tendonitis is the Pain Causing Dynamic that creates a Downward Spiral of increasing muscle tightness and pain.
Your body does not like pain.
When it feels pain, it tightens up to protect you.
Then you continue to perform the activity with a tighter, tighter, tighter structure.
If it was just a matter of not doing a motion repeatedly, or of doing it in proper ergonomic posture, then taking breaks and sitting the right way would keep you pain free.
Even perfect posture only slows down the onset of tendonitis pain.
If you can counter the Pain Causing Dynamic, you can work as hard as you want, as long as you want, without pain.
If you can counter the body's response to the tightness and pain that it responds to like an injury, you can perform as much Repetitive Motion as you want, in the worst of positions.
You already know that your tendonitis isn't really getting better on it's own, even with the treatments that you have tried, and the time you have taken off.
If you don't treat your tendinitis the RIGHT way, it's just not going to get better, because you're not treating the right problem.
Injury to the tendon is not the right problem.
The body's protective response of creating pain and tightness is the real cause of Tendonitis.
Do you know how to deal with the REAL cause of Tendonitis?
Technically Tendonitis is 'Inflammation of a Tendon'.
This is absolutely true, but entirely useless to you if you are trying to figure out how to make your pain go away.
What is the cause of Tendonitis? Whether you have Carpal Tunnel, Tennis Elbow, Wrist Tendinitis, Shoulder Cuff Tendonitis, Plantar Fasciitis or Achilles Tendonitis, it's all the same.
Tendonitis is Tendonitis, no matter where it occurs.
The dynamic is the same.
Every other source of information will tell you that it is from repetitive use, too much use, and complications from bad ergonomic positioning.
Those explanations are also true, but misleading.
Using a body part over and over in poor ergonomic position without rest, can help push your body towards repetitive strain injury.
And if you took time off work or play to let it heal, and then went back to work when the pain was gone and everything was hunky-dory, wouldn't that be great? Unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
As you probably know, if you rest, as soon as you get back to the original activity, you start to hurt again.
It is such a common occurrence I am continually surprised that the medical community still officially prescribes rest to their patients.
Here's what you need to know about your tendonitis: The real source of Tendonitis is the Pain Causing Dynamic that creates a Downward Spiral of increasing muscle tightness and pain.
Your body does not like pain.
When it feels pain, it tightens up to protect you.
Then you continue to perform the activity with a tighter, tighter, tighter structure.
If it was just a matter of not doing a motion repeatedly, or of doing it in proper ergonomic posture, then taking breaks and sitting the right way would keep you pain free.
Even perfect posture only slows down the onset of tendonitis pain.
If you can counter the Pain Causing Dynamic, you can work as hard as you want, as long as you want, without pain.
If you can counter the body's response to the tightness and pain that it responds to like an injury, you can perform as much Repetitive Motion as you want, in the worst of positions.
You already know that your tendonitis isn't really getting better on it's own, even with the treatments that you have tried, and the time you have taken off.
If you don't treat your tendinitis the RIGHT way, it's just not going to get better, because you're not treating the right problem.
Injury to the tendon is not the right problem.
The body's protective response of creating pain and tightness is the real cause of Tendonitis.
Do you know how to deal with the REAL cause of Tendonitis?