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Abstracts from the 2nd International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium (Vancouver, 2012)

• THE CHALLENGE OF TENDON PAIN (10 May, 2013)

  B Vicenzino
• ROLE OF NEUROPEPTIDES AND OTHER NEUROMODULATORS IN TENDINOPATHY PATHOGENESIS (10 May, 2013)

  P Danielson
• PROTEASE-ACTIVATED RECEPTORS ARE EXPRESSED IN HUMAN TENDON TISSUE AND MAY EXPLAIN EXCESSIVE PAIN-SIGNALLING IN TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  G Andersson, H Alfredson
• DOES SENSITISATION PLAY A ROLE IN THE PAIN OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY? (10 May, 2013)

  J Zwerver, K H Konopka, D Keizer, R Dekker, C P van Wilgen
• UNILATERAL TENDON INJURY ACCELERATES TENDON MINERALISATION BILATERALLY AND RESULTS IN ALTERED TENDON FAILURE AND VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES (10 May, 2013)

  E J O O'Brien, C B Frank, N G Shrive, B Hallgrímsson, D A Hart
• ANTI-APOPTOTIC EFFECTS OF SUBSTANCE P IN ANTI-FAS INDUCED APOPTOSIS OF HUMAN TENOCYTES (10 May, 2013)

  L J Backman, G Andersson, P Danielson
• HUMAN TENOCYTES ARE STIMULATED TO PROLIFERATE BY ACETYLCHOLINE THROUGH AN EGFR SIGNALLING PATHWAY (10 May, 2013)

  G Fong, L J Backman, G Andersson, A Scott, P Danielson
• UNDERSTANDING TENDON PAIN MECHANISMS THROUGH A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF WIDESPREAD MANIFESTATIONS OF UNILATERAL TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  L J Heales, E C W Lim, P W Hodges, B Vicenzino
• TENDONS: TIME TO REVISIT INFLAMMATION? (10 May, 2013)

  J D Rees, M Stride, A Scott
• INFLAMMATORY MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN TENDON OVERUSE: RECENT INSIGHTS (10 May, 2013)

  Alex Scott, Hayedeh Behzad
• GENE EXPRESSION OF MATRIX-DEGRADING ENZYMES IN PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  T Samiric, C J Handley, J Cook, J Parkinson
• MECHANICAL LOADING MODULATES ANGIOGENIC FACTORS IN TENDON CELLS (10 May, 2013)

  R Mousavizadeh, V Duronio, B McCormack, S Khosravi, A Scott
• AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN THE SUPRASPINATUS TENDON (10 May, 2013)

  R J Murphy, K Kliskey, K Wheway, E B Watkins, D J Beard, A J Carr
• AGING UNIQUELY INFLUENCES TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE-2 (TIMP-2) EXPRESSION IN NORMAL TENDON (10 May, 2013)

  G M Thornton, C R Reno, I K Y Lo, D A Hart
• MOLECULAR GENETICS AN IMPORTANT TOOL IN ELUCIDATING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISMS UNDERLYING TENDINOPATHIES (10 May, 2013)

  M Collins
• AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COMPONENTS OF THE APOPTOSIS PATHWAY AND THE GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  E Nell, L van der Merwe, J Cook, C J Handley, M Collins, A V September
• EARLY PATHOLOGICAL REMODELLING EVENTS, ACTORS AND REGULATORS IN OVERUSED SUPRASPINATUS TENDON (10 May, 2013)

  M Attia, A Scott, S Menashi, D Papy-Garcia, I Martelly, M C Tassoni
• TENDINOPATHY: MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS (10 May, 2013)

  H Langberg
• REHABILITATION OF TENDINOPATHY: WHERE TO FROM HERE? (10 May, 2013)

  J L Cook
• MATRIX THERAPY IN REGENERATIVE MEDICINE EVIDENCE IN TENDINITIS (10 May, 2013)

  D Barritault, J M Denoix, A G Dupays, C Maertens, V Coudry, D Carciner, S Jaquet, F Auigié, K Kichenin, S Filipe, N Denoix-Crevier
• A KNOWLEDGE TRANSLATION INITIATIVE TO ENHANCE EVIDENCE-INFORMED CLINICAL MANAGEMENT OF ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY: THE PURPOSE, PROCESS AND OUTCOMES OF THE BC TENDINOPATHY TOOLKIT (10 May, 2013)

  A M Hoens, A Ezzat, J Anthony, A Scott, M Yates, J R Justesen, D Hughes
• JUMPING ABILITY AND CHANGE OF JUMPING ABILITY AS RISK FACTORS FOR DEVELOPING JUMPER'S KNEE (10 May, 2013)

  H Visnes, H Aandahl, R Bahr
• THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN INTENSIVE EXERCISE PROGRAMME IN THE FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY OF A SEVERE DEGENERATIVE ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY. IS IT ENOUGH BY ITSELF? A CASE REPORT (10 May, 2013)

  D M Silván, F B Pazos, A R Valero, X D Justo, T F Jaén
• EFFECTIVENESS OF ULTRASOUND-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS ELECTROLYSIS INTRATENDON (EPI) IN THE TREATMENT OF INSERTIONAL PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY IN SOCCER PLAYERS (10 May, 2013)

  J M Sánchez-Ibáñez, R Alves, F Polidori, F Valera, F Minaya, S Valles-Martí, L Baños
• NEW BIOMECHANICAL MODEL TO EXPLAIN THE INJURY SITE OF PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY: AN ULTRASONOGRAPHY STUDY (10 May, 2013)

  T F Jaén, G A Rey, I G Vicente, P G García
• FULL-THICKNESS SUPRASPINATUS TEARS DEMONSTRATE SIGNIFICANT DETERIORATION OF MUSCLE REGENERATIVE POTENTIAL (10 May, 2013)

  K Lundgreen, Ø Lian, A Scott, L Engebretsen
• ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERISATION, AN INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR INJURY-PREVENTION AND MONITORING OF TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  H T M van Schie, S I Docking, J Daffy, S E Praet, S Rosengarten, J L Cook.
• THE LOCATION OF PATHOLOGY IN PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  J D Rees, J Houghton, A Srikanthan, A West
• MORPHO-TEXTURAL CHANGES OF THE PATELLAR LIGAMENT IN PROFESSIONAL VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS: 6 MONTHS LONGITUDINAL STUDY (10 May, 2013)

  A de-Groot-Ferrando, J Ríos-Díaz, J J Martínez-Payá, M E del-Baño-Aledo
• TENDON RESPONSE IN ACHILLES TENDON OF AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL PLAYERS USING ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERISATION (10 May, 2013)

  S Rosengarten, S I Docking, J T M van Schie, J Daffy, J L Cook
• PLATELET RICH PLASMA FOR CHRONIC TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  K Harmon, J Drezner, A Rao
• US AND DOPPLER-GUIDED SURGICAL TREATMENT BASED ON IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL FINDINGS IN MIDPORTION ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY SHOWS GOOD CLINICAL RESULTS AND FAST RETURN TO ACTIVITY (10 May, 2013)

  H Alfredson, G Andersson, L Backman, J Bagge, P Danielson, S Forsgren
• CHRONIC DISTAL BICEPS TENDON RUPTURE: RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW OF OUTOCOMES OF A NOVEL TECHNIQUE OF RECONSTRUCTION WITH TENDON GRAFT (10 May, 2013)

  T Goetz, M Okada, A Scott, J Pike
• GREATER TROCHANTERIC PAIN SYNDROME: DEFINING THE SYNDROME (10 May, 2013)

  A M Fearon, J M Scarvell, J L Cook, T Neeman, W Cormick, P N Smith
• SHORT TERM TISSUE RESPONSE TO CURRENT TREATMENTS FOR ROTATOR CUFF TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  R J Murphy, K Kliskey, K Wheway, E B Watkins, D J Beard, A J Carr
• SIMULTANEOUS BILATERAL RUPTURE OF ACHILLES TENDON ASYMPTOMATIC POSTENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  L Á Martínez, I G Vicente, E A Contreras, C R Jaramillo, T F Jaén
• FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY AND RE-INTRODUCTION TO SPORT, AFTER REPAIR OF DISTAL BICEPS TEAR BY TWO-INCISION TECHNIQUE MAYO (10 May, 2013)

  R A F León, E I Ibañez, R N Mont, T F Jaen
• SHORT- AND LONG-TERM OUTCOMES OF ELECTROLYSIS PERCUTANEOUS INTRATISSUE (EPI) IN CHRONIC LATERAL ELBOW EPICONDYLITIS (10 May, 2013)

  F Valera-Garrido, F Minaya-Muñoz, J M Sánchez-Ibáñez, F Medina-Mirapeix, F Polidori
• USE OF PLATELET RICH PLASMA FOR THE TREATMENT OF BICIPITAL TENDINOPATHY IN SPINAL CORD INJURY: A PILOT STUDY (10 May, 2013)

  V M Ibrahim, S L Groah, A Libin, I H Ljungberg, D Aufiero, K Patel, S Sampson.
• TOPICAL GLYCERYL TRINITRATE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC PATELLAR TENDINOPATHY: A RANDOMISED, DOUBLE BLIND, PLACEBO CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (10 May, 2013)

  J Zwerver, M Steunebrink, R Brandsema, P Groenenboom, I van den Akker-Scheek, A Weir
• DOES THE TENDINOPATHIC PATELLAR TENDON NORMALISE, ACCORDING TO ULTRASOUND FINDINGS, AFTER TREATMENT WITH SCLEROSING INJECTIONS OR ARTHROSCOPIC SHAVING? A LONG TERM FOLLOW-UP (3–5 YEARS) (10 May, 2013)

  K Sunding, L Willberg, U Niklasson, S Werner
• STEM CELL THERAPY FOR TENDINOPATHY: LESSONS FROM A LARGE ANIMAL MODEL (10 May, 2013)

  R K W Smith
• EVALUATION OF SCAFFOLDS IN VITRO FOR USE IN TENDON REGENERATION (10 May, 2013)

  J Cornish, D S Musson
• FACTORS AFFECTING TENDINOPATHOGENESIS (10 May, 2013)

  M M Smith, V Ravi, A J Dart, D H Sonnabend, C B Little
• EFFECTS OF MAST CELLS ON THE FUNCTION OF ISOLATED HUMAN TENOCYTES (10 May, 2013)

  H Behzad, A Scott
• THE EFFECTS OF UPHILL TREADMILL RUNNING AND COLLAGENASE ON RODENT ACHILLES TENDONS (10 May, 2013)

  R C Dirks, A M Fearon, A Scott, M R Galley, L G Koch, S L Britton, S J Warden
• BILATERAL CHANGES IN UNILATERAL ACHILLES TENDINOPATHY QUANTIFIED USING ULTRASOUND TISSUE CHARACTERISATION (10 May, 2013)

  S I Docking, J T M van Schie, J Daffy, S Rosengarten, J L Cook
• LIGHT MICROSCOPY EVALUATION OF TENDINOSIS: THE BONAR SCORE REVISITED (10 May, 2013)

  A Fearon, J E Dahlstrom, J Twin, J Cook, A Scott
• GENE EXPRESSION IN TENOCYTES SUGGESTS DEGNERATIVE TENDON TEARS ATTEMPT TO HEAL (10 May, 2013)

  A M Fearon, J L Cook, P Smith, A Scott
• INCREASED LEVELS OF APOPTOSIS AND P53 IN PARTIAL-THICKNESS SUPRASPINATUS TENDON TEARS (10 May, 2013)

  K Lundgreen, Ø Lian, A Scott, L Engebretsen
• ROTATOR CUFF TENDINOPATHY: IMMUNOHISTOCHEMICAL CHANGES ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF PATHOLOGY (10 May, 2013)

  R J Murphy, K Kliskey, K Wheway, E B Watkins, D J Beard, A J Carr
• THE LINK BETWEEN DYSLIPIDEMIA AND TENDON PATHOLOGY (10 May, 2013)

  N Grewal, D Granville, D Reid, A Scott
• HISTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF GAGS IN ALTERED TENDON: A MEANS TO EVALUATE THE DEGREE OF PATHOLOGY (10 May, 2013)

  M Attia, G Carpentier, S Etienne, S Thierart, A Scott, L Oystein, D Papy-Garcia, M C Tassoni, I Martelly
• ULTRASOUND-GUIDED PERCUTANEOUS ASPIRATION IN CALCIFYING TENDINITIS OF THE SHOULDER (10 May, 2013)

  J S S López, F B Pazos, A R Valero, D M Silván, T F F Jaén
• LARGE PROTEOGLYCAN METABOLISM IN TENDINOPATHY (10 May, 2013)

  M M Smith, E Jacobson, A J Dart, C B Little
• COMPARISON OF THE ACUTE INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE AND PROLIFERATION OF DRY NEEDLING AND ELECTROLYSIS PERCUTANEOUS INTRATISSUE (EPI) IN HEALTHY RAT ACHILLES TENDONS (10 May, 2013)

  F Valera-Garrido, F Minaya-Muñoz, J M Sánchez-Ibáñez, P García-Palencia, F Valderrama-Canales, F Medina-Mirapeix, F Polidori
• IDENTIFICATION OF BIOMARKERS FOR EARLY TENDON DEGENERATION USING AN IN-VIVO RABBIT MODEL (10 May, 2013)

  E Huisman, G Thornton, C Roberts, A Scott
• STUDIES ON ACHILLES TENDINOSIS: BILATERAL RECOVERY AFTER UNILATERAL SURGERY, AND SIMILAR HISTOPATHOLOGICAL APPEARANCES BILATERALLY (10 May, 2013)

  H Alfredson, C Spang, S Forsgren
• ECCENTRIC EXERCISES COMBINED WITH ELECTRICAL STIMULATION IN THE TREATMENT OF JUMPER'S KNEE: A STUDY ON SIX HIGH LEVEL JUMPING ATHLETES (10 May, 2013)

  A Basas García, A Lorenzo, M A Gómez-Ruano, T Fernández Jaén, G Álvarez Rey
• Acknowledgements: SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS (10 May, 2013)

  A Scott