Case studies and articles
The Sound Experience team publish regular educational case studies, research digests and opinions.
Corticosteroid injections in tendinopathy: why we will continue to follow guidelines.
From time to time we have a request for an injection into a tendon. With a clear rationale and usually a documented history of reasonable rehabilitation failing we may make an exception.
This post summarises a recently published article, incorporating a brief quality appraisal of recent evidence, and presents a coherent opinion reinforcing why we will continue to recommend against most tendon steroid injections.
How to tendinopathy: 2
In the previous post of this three part series, we left you with the idea that ultrasound imaging can visualise the stages of the tendon continuum and that management of tendon injury across the continuum may be directed by this imaging carefully considered within the specific presentation of each patient.
How to tendinopathy: 1
Tendinosis is tendinitis that can’t be proven to be associated with inflammation, but tendinitis is. Or maybe tendinosis might be failed repair of a previously inflamed tendon, so might be tendinitis then not tendinitis. Keen to know more?