EDITORIAL

Tendinopathy

A clinical perspective to tendinopathy

J L Cook¹, J Karlsson², K M Khan³

¹ School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
² Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital/Östra, Göteborg, Sweden
³ Department of Family Practice, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Associate Professor K M Khan
Department of Family Practice, David Strangway Building, Suite 320-5950, The University of British Columbia, University Blvd, Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z3; kkhan@interchange.ubc.ca

Accepted 5 February 2007

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A major challenge for clinicians in sports medicine

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The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

Although there have been many advances in both understanding and treating tendinopathies over the past years, this clinical condition remains a major challenge for clinicians in sports medicine and a fear for elite athletes and recreationally active people. The aim of this issue of BJSM was to aggregate a number of high-quality, clinically relevant peer-reviewed, original and review papers.

Papers with a clinical perspective provide critical review and original data relating to both eccentric exercise and tendon vascularity. The research reported here builds on the foundations of research into eccentric training during the past 20 years; papers reveal new insights into this exercise regime and the effect it has on vascularity and pain. In addition to these papers on treatment, two outcome papers show a mixed long-term outcome for patients with tendinopathy. Although there is no spontaneous recovery of full function in individuals with Achilles tendinopathy, in volleyball players . . . [Full text of this article]

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