Anyone ever completely recover from patella tendinosis?

had it for about a 1.5 years and ran cross and played basketball. took the whole spring off of running, and just practices basketball. I went on a vacation out west to all the national parks and i think the hiking was good pt for my tendonitis. it stopped being a major problem mid summer. it still bothers me sometimes but very rarely. it never effects my training.

I recovered from it after I had a knee scope....lol

It's pretty cheap and easy, had it done, walked out of the hospital and was running fine again in 2 months.

Meloxicam has helped me greatly, but it's not clear to me that the pain will stay away when I stop taking the drug.

Eccentric deline squats, done religiously for one month (1 x 15 once a day, increasing progressively to 3x15 twice a day) did absolutely nothing, sadly. I didn't increase weight, though.

Just had MRI and will get results on Friday. Ortho agreed with my self diagnosis, which is why he prescribed Meloxicam.

I'm going to continue the M, begin decline squats again, and get ART, which is actually supposed to help. (See YT videos searched under "ART patellar tendonitis.)

Has anyone had pain right on the inside of their knee cap. I get a sharp pain when i extend my knee or when squatting or running. Been struglling with this for about a year now and haven't been able to run. I've been going to a physical therapist and doing exercises everyday for my glutes and quads. Anyone have any thoughts on what's going on

I had the tenex health procedure done on my knee, when did you start feeling 100% I had the procedure almost two months ago and in the beginning it felt as if the little pain i had was from the needle inside my patellar, but within the last few days it feels as if my pain is almost as bad as it once was. I havent run or jumped for the last two months I started PT three weeks ago but we havent done any exercises to really aggravate it. I still have two more months until im cleared to play sports but is it normal to still have this pain?

It sounds like new research from tendon clinician, Jill Cook, says to do isometric exercises then isotonic after that. Collagen turns over with heavy slow resistance training, but you should not do this if the tendon hurts. Do isometrics a few times a day, get the weight up then progress to isotonic loading every other day. If the tendon hurts doing isotonic trading, go back to isometric only. There should not be ant flare up of tendon pain and any pain increase should decrease within 24 hours. Tendons can have a feedback delay of 24 hours or more.

Increase the weight for the isometrics.

Decline eccentrics squats do not work for irritable tendons and can make the tendon worse. No studies have shown that concentric exercise is bad. In addition, Bruce Lee is rumored to have do isometric training to become super strong.

You may need to stay in the isometric stage for a few weeks or more.

Hopefully this helps someone.

I need some help from you guys I have been suffering from knee pain. I'll give you the whole timeline. In October I was playing soccer with some college dudes when one of them hit me knee to knee. It hurt a lot but I continued playing because my team needed me. It started getting worse and worse I eventually went to the doctor after playing 4 more games and feeling the pain getting worse. The doctor told me that it was patella tendinitis and gave me therapeutic excersises to do at home these helped and I eventually returned playing the pain soon returned too. I need to know what to do for my knee tendinitis or tendosis?( take in mind that it started In October and it's late April.) I have resumed playing but it still hurts I just take painkillers and keep going. There's always an ache but when I run pain. Thanks!

I need some help from you guys I have been suffering from knee pain. I'll give you the whole timeline. In October I was playing soccer with some college dudes when one of them hit me knee to knee. It hurt a lot but I continued playing because my team needed me. It started getting worse and worse I eventually went to the doctor after playing 4 more games and feeling the pain getting worse. The doctor told me that it was patella tendinitis and gave me therapeutic excersises to do at home these helped and I eventually returned playing the pain soon returned too. I need to know what to do for my knee tendinitis or tendosis?( take in mind that it started In October and it's late April.) I have resumed playing but it still hurts I just take painkillers and keep going. There's always an ache but when I run pain. Thanks!

I have had knee pain since February, when I damaged it racing indoors. I think a weak vmo caused it, but I've done a lot of strengthing with the vmo and glute/hips as well and iced, etc. and it remains fine for most runs now, but lateral motion like indoor soccer and especially running on a track cause it to flare up again.

The tendon in general when my knees are slightly bent is soft and rather mushy I guess, whereas my left knee which is fine is tight. Pressing on it almost feels like there isn't really a tendon there. It does tighten up and act normal again when I do decline squats or stand one legged. Could this be bursitis? I just have no clue how to fix it. I want to run track again but tracks are what cause it to flare up the most. Any advice from those who may have suffered through something like this? Thanks

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I love how everyone is answering a question about tendonosis with their experience with tendonitis. They are NOT the same thing.

not the same wrote:

I love how everyone is answering a question about tendonosis with their experience with tendonitis. They are NOT the same thing.

1: It's spelled 'tendinosis,' not 'tendonosis.'

2: The distinction you are attempting to make is mostly moot, since it is a debate within the tendon research community whether it's a primarily inflammatory or non-inflammatory degenerative process. Both terms are used clinically in the same setting, as the debate is not altogether settled. The same goes for achilles tendinosis vs. tendonitis, etc.

not the same wrote:

I love how everyone is answering a question about tendonosis with their experience with tendonitis. They are NOT the same thing.

Ok so as you seem to know what you're talking about what's the difference for treatment?

How was the pan before you started doing the one leg squats?

Was it in both knees?

How are you doing mate? How did things resolved for u. I am sailing in the same boat. Your inputs would be great.

You are replying to Count Choc on old thread, who writes about knee cracking and popping. Is that something you have? If so, it might be kneecap tracking issue. I had that (at the tail end of patellar tendinitis), and for me the tracking problem was due to VMO not activating, and tight quads on the other leg. These were fairly easy to work on in my case. Foam rolling. And google 'activate vmo muscle'.

As far as patellar tentinitis, mine took about a year, but I am middle aged so heal slowly. For me, the slow decline squats seemed key. Also I found Jill Cook on youtube (researcher on tendon rehab). If I recall correctly, she said to build strength (doing the slow single leg squats) then gradually build some spring, then build up endurance to spring for a longer time. If you overdo it, you may turn OFF the VMO, which results in tracking issue. So then you need to pay attention to that.

Good luck.

...oops probably tight quads and IT band on the leg with the kneecap tracking issue. Anyway, foam roll both sides.

When you had the Tenex procedure done how long did it take you to be back to 100 percent. Was there any other sort of procedure you had done after it? I'm assuming you did PT, what sort of exercises did you do?

Did you end up recovering?