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today we’re going to talk a little bit about  tendons and doing rehab for a chronic tendon  

problem and the thing you don’t want to do is  you don’t want to rest it there’s some really  

interesting data by jill cook i’m going to put her  link down below it was actually quite interesting  

because she was talking about a study that was  comparing an abnormal dysfunctional tendon with a  

normal tendon and looking at the difference  between both now in the dysfunctional tendon  

there was some thickening but what was very  interesting was the abnormal tendon had more  

normal tissue than the normal tendon that means  that a person would have plenty of good tissue  

to do load training or resistance type training  so if you do what most therapists do where they  

actually recommend rest ice heat manual therapy  etc you’re probably not going to get anywhere  

but if you do load training where you’re  putting the body under a very gradual stress  

starting with baby steps and slowly increasing  being more load on that tendon over time you’re  

going to get a really good adaptation because  there’s enough good tissue there to work with  

she also talks about the inflammatory process  not really being a trigger for tendon problems  

so this would explain if you do ice and heat  and all these other physical therapies you  

just won’t really get anywhere but if you  personally have a tendon problem and you’re  

trying to rehab it with rest and you’re not  getting anywhere now you know why so if you’re  

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