Types of Achilles Tendonitis
There are various types of tendonitis, and the most common of them all are achilles tendonitis, tennis elbow, golfers elbow etc. The largest tendon in the human body is the Achilles, and the inflammation of the Achilles tendon, which is more popularly know as Achilles Tendonitis, could be caused due to various reasons including increasing one’s speed all of a sudden, running the hill or climbing the stair to add to an athlete’s training schedule, or even accelerating too fast after a pause or layoff, or even the traumatic experience inflicted by the hard contraction of the calf muscle while trying to put an extra effort such as a final dash, or just overuse owing to the less flexibility in various muscles including calf muscle.
The second type of tendonitis is called tennis elbow, which is also popular as epitrochlear bursitis, lateral epicondylitis, and epicondylitis-lateral. The repeated stress in the muscles causes tears at the place where it is attached with the outside of the elbow. This mainly caused to tennis player because they use the racquet in a repetitive way, but is also not too rare among other such repetitive workers. Whenever you contract the muscle, muscle retains a tiny bit of contraction. Thus muscles very slowly get tighter. What used being relaxed, soft, and flexible muscles get more hard, tight, as well as less flexible, although you demand similar level of action from them.
There should be steps of prevention taken before this tennis elbow starts, and it generally goes away with proper care, but resurfaces when no precaution is taken. Usually a home treatment should be opted for, if that is unsuccessful, only then should one go for professional help. Severe and extreme cases need surgery for tennis players. Some lesser known tendonitis are the abductor tendonitis, ankle tendonitis, bicep tendonitis, calcific tendonitis, dequervains tendonitis, elbow tendonitis, extensor tendonitis, finger tendonitis, foot tendonitis, forearm tendonitis, hamstring tendonitis, hand tendonitis, hip tendonitis, knee tendonitis, patellar tendonitis, perinea tendonitis, posterior tibiae tendonitis, quadriceps, rotator calf tendonitis, shoulder tendonitis, supraspinatas tendonitis, triceps tendonitis, wrist tendonitis. Muscles get tight and this puts strain on tendon, and steals more of nutrition & circulation from tendon, as well as makes your body to work harder only to move against resistance from tight muscles. With this tightness & lack of mobility, wear & tear injury begins to take place.