2006-08-05 12:56:01 · 9 answers · asked by pancake 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Walk bowlegged. Okay maybe you don't have to go that far. but for Achilles tendinitis, wearing cowboy boots or high heels off the ground, and the muscles and tendons don't have to work as hard,
2006-08-05 14:50:23 · answer #1 · answered by boy_jam_arch 6 · 10⤊ 0⤋
First of all stop what is causing it. You can take some anti inflammatory drugs like Advil. But I did not when I recently had a tendinitis. Here is why:
it is my personal belief that the inflammation is done by the body for a reason. The pain is there to tell you to stop the movement. The swelling is water to buffer the muscles and nerves and the increased blood flow and heat stimulates the healing. That's why I did not take drugs when I had a tendinitis not long ago.
Icing helps against the pain.
And a bit later a massage called "soft tissue release massage". A massage-variation coming from sports medicine. You put the affected muscle under tension and then work along the muscle fibers.
The reasoning behind it is that the scar tissue which will build during healing will be aligned within the muscles alignment and this way not cause any more trouble in future.
Going to the doctor for a tendinitis..I did not go when I had it because a Doctor can only say: Immobilization and give you drugs. Next is you take the drugs, have no pain and you move the body part more then you should. The tendinitis gets worse. You take more drugs and don't feel the pain because of the drugs and use the affected body part. It gets worse again. Then the doctor gives you stronger drugs, cortisone based. That's when the trouble really starts. You can end up with surgery - which does not always help either.
So - I decided to take the painful route and my tendinitis is gone. The STR massage helped quite a bit.
Good luck
2006-08-05 13:30:52 · answer #2 · answered by spaceskating_girl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Music soothes even the savage Tendinitis.
2006-08-05 12:58:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Use ice to soothe and I know it hurts but it will stop the swelling around the nerves and theyn you will not have as much pain. Use heat right before using or exercising the area.You can use clove oil,ginger,sunflower seeds,tumeric, and peppermint oil becasue they have pain reducers or has anesthetic effects that are natural.( you probably have them in your home in some form). Try to stop the action that is causing the tendinities or change the way you regularly move the area.Best wishes. I know pain and have had it constantly since 1991.
2006-08-05 13:11:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is very difficult to say whether it is an soft tissue injury or any pain being referred from sacroiliac joints. Any tendonitis doesnt give u pain to these so many places. I think u should consult a gud therapist or a manual therapist. Further, discussion is encouraged.
2016-03-27 00:27:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ice for 24-48 hours...heat for 72 hours after...anti-inflammatories
like aleeve or motrin and rest. Immobilization is good if you can't rest. See a doctor if it doesn't get better after a couple or three days.
12 years in orthopedics.
2006-08-05 13:01:28 · answer #6 · answered by Outman 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Cold compresses. It sounds kind of weird, because heat feels good, but the cold/ice compresses are better for it.
2006-08-05 12:59:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
a hot soke and a hot wrap and pain pills
or maybe just a good book and a glass of wine
2006-08-05 12:58:36 · answer #8 · answered by DENISE 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
much naprosen or much less electrical exhiliration
2006-08-05 13:03:32 · answer #9 · answered by pisa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋