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 DEFINITION
The tendinitis is the inflammation of a sinew (insertion of the muscle in the bone) or of a bursa (small bags that facilitate the movements of the muscles and sinews on the bone). Both structures are along with the joints and by it his inflammation appears with symptoms of pains of the joints.
SYMPTOMS
The symptoms are the pain and the movements incapability in the joint placed along with the sinew or bursa affected. It usually inflame the area and the areas more often affected are the elbows, shoulders, feet, ankles, knees, hips, dolls, and fingers.
There are inflammations produced by surcharge of the area (injuries) by it when it transfers the sharp picture it does not leave residual injuries.
CAUSES
In general there are the result of a surcharge of the next joint during the work or the sport, good for excess of effort or for bad positions.
Since it can be in any area we put a few concrete examples:
The bursitis of the biggest trocánter is a pain at level of the side area of the hip, in the next insertion of the muscles glúteos average in the comb ilíaca, they usually take a wide pelvis as a cause ó a movement of push-up of the abnormal pelvis due to differences in the length of the legs, or for a style of deficient career (crossing the feet in the halfway line) or the fact of running for sloping surfaces or jumping curbs. The differences of length of the low extremities it will be corrected raising one of the sneakers. The bursitis retrocalcánea is an inflammation of the serous bag located between the sinew of Aquiles and the calcáneo. The palpación of the sinew with the fingers thumb and index makes the intense pain appear. It talks each other with the massages achievement with ice three or four times a day for some days and with light exercises destined to stretch Aquiles's sinew.
DIAGNOSIS
The diagnosis of these two inflammations is realized by the clinic and the exploration adapted by an expert specialist. The achievement of analysis and X-rays is not essential and only they discard the presence of other concomitant illnesses (rheumatoid arthritis, drop, diabetes, infection).
TREATMENT
Since there are injuries for excess of effort and secondary inflammation, the election treatment is the rest of the area for a few days. Sometimes the immobilization is necessary by means of rods or plasters.
The application of local cold is useful to the beginning of the symptoms and of local heat in the later days, associating anti-inflammatory medicines not esteroideos (AINEs). The steroids injection in the area must be realized occasionally and being careful with the sinews since they can fibrosar.
The exercises of muscular stretching in the later days will help to the resolution of the problem. But the most important thing is to find out the cause of the injury to be able to avoid it:
- Sobreesfuerzo
- Bad position
- Incorrect exercise
- Supported rubbing (shoes)
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