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You will likely find it helpful to rest a bit more but it is still important to keep active. This will help to avoid becoming stiff and your muscles becoming weak. There are tendons all over your body. They connect your muscles to bones in your joints, for example, in your knees, elbows and shoulders. Active Health is a programme for residents of South Lanarkshire living with long term conditions. Residents are referred via Acute, Physio & specialist nurses to a 10-week programme and then signposted onto a wide variety of mainstream physical activity, sport & outdoor opportunities. Paracetamol is a good general pain management medication. It is used to help manage lots of different types of pain. You could use a heat pad or a hot water bottle with an insulated cover on it. Make sure this is not too hot and is not directly touching your skin.
Do not make the bandage too tight and do not wear tubi-grip or any compression bandage in bed at night. While most people heal completely from a patellar tendon surgery, there can be long-term weakness even with a successful repair. Summary Along with managing your activity levels a graded exercise programme is the best way to help improve your pain and function for patellar tendinopathy. It is important to note it can take 6 – 12 weeks of doing specific exercises to notice a difference in your knee pain. Local NHS Lanarkshire physiotherapists have recorded exercise videos that will get your rehabilitation started and will guide you to manage your knee pain. The exercises are divided into early, middle and late stages. Your physiotherapist will help guide you. You should start doing the early exercises first and should find them easy before you progress to the middle exercises. Again you should begin to find the middle exercises easy before you progress to the later exercises. It is important to not overdo the exercises as this may irritate the tendon (See pain activity ladder).Takazawa Y, Ikeda H, Ishijima M, et al. Reconstruction of a ruptured patellar tendon using ipsilateral semitendinosus and gracilis tendons with preserved distal insertions: two case reports. BMC Res Notes. 2013;6(1):361. doi:10.1186/1756-0500-6-361
Spreading the doses of the paracetamol evenly out over a day will help you control your pain. Visit NHS Inform for more detailed information on paracetamol. Tendonitis is when a tendon swells (becomes inflamed) after an injury. It can cause joint pain and stiffness, and affect how a tendon moves. You can treat a mild tendon injury yourself and it should feel better within 2 to 3 weeks. How to treat tendonitis yourselfIf you aim to get a balance between rest and activity it should help your pain to settle down. You may be sore at first, however, start slowly and gradually increase the amount you do. Compression and Elevation are helpful for reducing inflammation. This can be done by keeping your joint raised on a pillow and compressed by wrapping a bandage around it. It is not fully clear why some people develop patellar tendinopathy, but is normally due to several reasons:
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