Tendinopathy: is imaging telling us the entire story?

SI Docking, CC Ooi, D Connell - journal of orthopaedic & sports physical …, 2015 - jospt.org
Tendinopathy is frequently associated with structural disorganization within the tendon. As
such, the clinical use of ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging for tendinopathy has …

[HTML][HTML] How do tendons adapt? Going beyond tissue responses to understand positive adaptation and pathology development: A narrative review

SI Docking, J Cook - Journal of musculoskeletal & neuronal …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding how tendons adapt to load is crucial to understanding how training can
improve performance, minimise the risk of injury and aid rehabilitation. Adaptation is the …

Achilles pain, stiffness, and muscle power deficits: midportion Achilles tendinopathy revision 2018: clinical practice guidelines linked to the International Classification …

RL Martin, R Chimenti, T Cuddeford, J Houck… - Journal of Orthopaedic & …, 2018 - jospt.org
The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an
ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy …

Pathological tendons maintain sufficient aligned fibrillar structure on ultrasound tissue characterization (UTC)

SI Docking, J Cook - … journal of medicine & science in sports, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Structural disorganization in the tendon is associated with tendinopathy, with little research
investigating whether disorganization overwhelms the overall structural integrity of the …

Oral supplementation of specific collagen peptides combined with calf-strengthening exercises enhances function and reduces pain in achilles tendinopathy patients

SFE Praet, CR Purdam, M Welvaert, N Vlahovich… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
The current pilot study investigates whether oral supplementation of specific collagen
peptides improves symptoms and tendon vascularisation in patients with chronic mid-portion …

ICON 2020—International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium Consensus: a systematic review of outcome measures reported in clinical trials of Achilles tendinopathy

K Grävare Silbernagel, P Malliaras, RJ de Vos… - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background Nine core domains for tendinopathy have been identified. For Achilles
tendinopathy there is large variation in outcome measures used, and how these fit into the …

The clinical diagnosis of Achilles tendinopathy: a scoping review

W Matthews, R Ellis, J Furness, WA Hing - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Background Achilles tendinopathy describes the clinical presentation of pain localised to the
Achilles tendon and associated loss of function with tendon loading activities. However …

The role of the vascular and structural response to activity in the development of achilles tendinopathy: a prospective study

E Wezenbeek, T Willems, N Mahieu… - … American journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Several risk factors have been suggested in the development of Achilles
tendinopathy, but large-scale prospective studies are limited. Purpose: To investigate the …

In Achilles tendinopathy, the neovascularization, detected by contrast‐enhanced ultrasound (CEUS), is abundant but not related to symptoms

A De Marchi, S Pozza, E Cenna… - Knee Surgery …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Purpose and Hypothesis Mid‐portion Achilles tendinopathy is characterized by a
proliferation of small vessels, called neovascularization, which can be demonstrated by …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of an in vitro engineered ligament model

AM Avey, O Valdez, K Baar - Matrix Biology Plus, 2024 - Elsevier
In vivo tendon and ligament research can be limited by the difficultly of obtaining tissue
samples that can be biochemically analyzed. In this study, we characterize the most widely …