Best Way to fight tendonitis...?

[megad]

My offseason weight training is over now that basketball season has started. I got alot stronger, and I made alot of gains, but one thing that I did not improve upon is the condition of my patella tendonitis.

Our basketball team practices two hours a day. I've been able to somewhat contain the pain with lots of ice after playing, and ibuprofen every once in a while. I realize that I am putting myself in jeopardy by continuing to play, but I feel like have no other choice.

Please list the ways how you guys have been able to help fight the pain. Thanks alot!

 

[coolcolj]

rest is the only way really, you have to let it recover.

otehrwise, the your probbaly just building up scar tissue etc

 

[PIGEON-RAT]

the only way i was able to deal with it was by resting it. I had mean tendonitis in my forearm, I just had to let it recuperate.

 

[Debaser]

A.R.T.

 

[megad]

debaser, u got any experience with art?

 

[Spartacus]

resting didn't do sh*t for me...lost a lot of lean and fat too...was given an antiinflammatory set of pils by the doc...no help..then a one week course of some kind of catabolic steriod(kind of an oxymoron eh?)..that scary combo didn't help...finally got a cortisone shot into the elbow and that helped enough to allow me back into the gym...added glucosamine,chondroitin,MSM,bee pollen and cetyl myristoleate to my supplements and have finally noticed not a twinch of pain..enanthate helped too..I'm 41 though so I need to be adding these connective tissue enhancers to my regimen anyhow

 

[Debaser]

debaser, u got any experience with art?

Yes sir:

Within 6 total sessions : I fixed my knees, shoulder, and hips.

I believe my shoulder took 2 sessions, knees took 3-4 and the hips took all 6. Each of the sessions were 10-20 minutes.

 

[megad]

Whoa, what did you have, tendonitis?>

 

[DrBones]

Jake.
Deep tissue massage is also VERY affective....

 

[coolcolj]

tedonitus is from overuse, the tendons can't recover

If it can't recover from the pounding , you rest it, makes sense to me...