| Title |
Anti-inflammatory management for tendon injuries - friends or foes?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, October 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1758-2555-1-23 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Kai-Ming Chan, Sai-Chuen Fu |
| Abstract |
Acute and chronic tendon injuries are very common among athletes and in sedentary population. Most physicians prescribe anti-inflammatory managements to relieve the worst symptoms of swelling and pain, including non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, corticosteroids and physical therapies. However, experimental research shows that pro-inflammatory mediators such as prostaglandins may play important regulatory roles in tendon healing. Noticeably nearly all cases of chronic tendon injuries we treat as specialists have received non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs by their physician, suggesting that there might be a potential interaction in some of these cases turning a mild inflammatory tendon injury into chronic tendinopathy in predisposed individuals. We are aware of the fact that non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and corticosteroids may well have a positive effect on the pain control in the clinical situation whilst negatively affect the structural healing. It follows that a comprehensive evaluation of anti-inflammatory management for tendon injuries is needed and any such data would have profound clinical and health economic importance. |
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| United Kingdom | 3 | 60% |
| United States | 1 | 20% |
| Unknown | 1 | 20% |
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| Members of the public | 3 | 60% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
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| United States | 2 | 3% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 76 | 96% |
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| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 13% |
| Researcher | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 10% |
| Other | 20 | 25% |
| Unknown | 12 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 28 | 35% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 14% |
| Sports and Recreations | 7 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Engineering | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 8 | 10% |
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