Tendonitis and Me

Sooo...

I have got tendonitis, I've had it since about halfway through the summer holidays.

Basically i thought i had a Hernia at some point in the summer, went to the doctors and it wasn't :) so i trained for 7 days (starting the day after), didn't feel fatigued in the slightest until the last day. These were the best 7 days of parkour in my life, i think it must of felt something similar to the 7 days it took God to create the earth (maybe if i had rested on the 7th day like God i may have never got Tendonitis)!

The next day (Monday) i had to go to Bedford on a 7.30 train and at this point my sleeping habits were atroscious i was going to bed at 3.ooam every night. In Bedford i was teaching parkour and b-boying to a group of contemporary dancers
for a performance in the street on the saturday.

Basically i taught about 2 hours of bboying an 2 hours of parkour in the whole week the rest of the time i spent learning a contemporary dance peice with everyone else. So you add together 7 days parkour no rest then 6 more days doing movements my body isn't used to alongside 4 hours sleep a night thats not very healthy and you are just asking for an injury of some sort.

During the week i did feel pain come and go depending on how warmed up i was but didn't take much notice, the week after i rested a little but still trained quite frequently again the pain came and went depending on how warmed up my muscles were. About 4/5 months later these pains made me see a physio who thought simply thought that my hamstrings were to weak for my quads and gave me some exercises to help, i did these but no such luckk as the pain going, so went back with everything written on paper e.g. when it started etc. and it is Tendonitis

So i did a fair bit of research and came up with one incredibly usefeul website for anyone who thinks they might have tendonitis of any sort (because hamstring tendonitis is pretty rare):

http://www.itendonitis.com/hamstring-tendonitis.html

The Physio also said i may have to have a cortisone injection (steroid injection) so I researched into this and found a very positive article on it (but i will summarise beneath):

http://ajsm.highwire.org/cgi/content/abstract/28/3/297

To summarise: between January 1985 and January 1998. We found that 431 players had suffered such injury. We developed a clinical grading system to identify hamstring injury severity and to stratify players for treatment. Fifty-eight players (13%) sustained severe, discrete injuries with a palpable defect within the substance of the muscle and were treated with intramuscular injection of corticosteroid and anesthetic. There were no complications related to the injection of corticosteroid. Only nine players (16%) missed any games as a result of their injury.

So only 9 out of 58 players missed a football match as a result of the injection, so this injection made people almost fully recover within 7 days!

I have more appointments with the physio and a knee specialist coming up so i'll keep you posted with them but I plan to rest until january then start rehabilitating myself :)

Thanks for reading

Tim