Quad and Hamstrong Tendinitis

[Selkie]

Good, you finally went!

I'll call TE tonight and arrange your giftcard. Please PM me your real name and address.

(he was hitting the bottom of your foot to check for short-circuited reflexes)

ETA: and no, I'm NOT giving a TE gift card to every TE'er who goes to the doctor! Catrin is it! The rest of you just have to get there on your own!

Actually, I think she should give YOU a gift card, since you've been so patient in helping her with this and several other things (saddle, etc).

[Catrin]

Has anyone had both kinds of tendonitis (quad and hamstring) at the same time? I know everyone is different of course, just curious if you had physical therapy and how long it took to recover from it. I know that tendonitis of any kind can be a bear to heal if it isn't treated right - and sometimes even then.

I am very glad that it turned out to not be my back - but ya know - tendonitis in one place would have been enough At least my doc said I could ride if I was very easy about it and kept it short - but don't know what the PT may advise when I see him Monday...

It is probably good that I move next week, there won't be time for much this weekend outside of packing...

Ya know, I shouldn't be surprised I suppose - I DID go from being a sloth to riding like a wild woman in something like 5 months or so

[KnottedYet]

Has anyone had both kinds of tendonitis (quad and hamstring) at the same time?

I've never seen it in my career, but "never say never."

[Catrin]

I've never seen it in my career, but "never say never."

Really? Just my luck then, I've never done anything halfway!

[tulip]

Isn't tendinitis inflammation of the tendon? And aren't quads and hamstrings muscles? Something doesn't make sense to me.

When I had tendinitis in my arm due to too much typing, it was at the elbow and wrist. So wouldn't Catrin's be at the knee and hip? I could understand how tendinitis would result in trigger point in the muscle. Maybe that's what the doc means by quad and hamstring tendinitis.

[Catrin]

Isn't tendinitis inflammation of the tendon? And aren't quads and hamstrings muscles? Something doesn't make sense to me.

When I had tendinitis in my arm due to too much typing, it was at the elbow and wrist. So wouldn't Catrin's be at the knee and hip? I could understand how tendinitis would result in trigger point in the muscle. Maybe that's what the doc means by quad and hamstring tendinitis.

It is the tendons attached to those muscles, and the muscles themselves are also inflamed - especially the hammie. I had no idea that the soreness at the back of my knee on that leg was caused by the hamstring though - I figured that it was related to my saddle height...

I saw the massage therapist last night at my club who massaged that leg last week and he asked how things were going. I told him what the doctor said and he wasn't surprised. He said my hamstrings were like extremely tightly wound ropes that would not loosen with the normal methods.

I do admit what he said about my quad was a surprise - I thought THAT was healed - but the soreness I thought was in my hip flexor turned out to be in a tendon attaching the upper quad...

My dr. said the occasional pain while sitting/lying down has to do with the inflammation and that I am lying/sitting upon the tendons that are most aggravated...

They are trying to work me into PT evaluation today or tomorrow, but I don't think it will happen until Monday. One of their therapists is in labor and another on vacation - they are kind of short staffed.

[tulip]

Well that makes sense. After all, the ankle bone is connected to the leg bone...it's all a connected.

Oh, and by the way, when I was in PT for my tendinitis in my wrist and elbow, they said I had to REST it completely in order for it to heal. No typing, no gardening (with that arm), etc. So just be prepared for that possibility.