Description
The reason your tendon rehab isn't working isn't that you've been doing too much.
It's that you've been doing too little...and calling it "rehab".
Tendons are load-responsive tissues.
They don't maintain themselves through rest.
They maintain themselves through demand.
When that demand disappears....
when you rest it, protect it, avoid anything that provokes it...
the tendon doesn't heal.
It unravels.
Collagen architecture becomes disorganized.
The matrix loses its ability to transfer force efficiently.
The tissue becomes sensitive...
reactive to loads it should handle without issue.
And here's where it gets more serious...
Most tendon rehab is centered around pain reduction...
Not Improving capacity...
So the rehab basically sucks the oxygen out of the room...
Which includes load...
The ONLY THING that signals a tendon to improve its stiffness and collagen matrix.
Classic tendon rehab misses this entirely.
Rest until it stops hurting.
Ice it. Take some ibuprofen.
Do some theraband work when it feels better.
That approach keeps the tissue in the exact state that produced the problem.
It never builds capacity.
It never reverses the sensitization.
It just manages symptoms until the next flare.
What we do at TMU is different.
We assess where the tendon actually sits on the Tendon Continuum.
We build a loading strategy specific to that stage.
And we progressively build capacity...
not in spite of the pain signal, but with it as our guide.
Pain relief is really only step one...It should never be the outcome measure.
Save this if you've been spinning your wheels with tendon pain.
If that's you right now — DM STRATEGY and let's build a plan that actually addresses what's going on.
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