Severe Knee Tendinitis Can Be Alleviated With Surgery
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Vital Information:
- Jumper's knee, or patellar tendinitis, is a common injury among athletes where a tendon of the quadriceps develops a series of small tears.
- For most people, a conservative treatment including muscle strengthening and stretching is effective, but in some cases surgery is necessary.
- Another treatment, which is not approved in the U.S., is called extracorporeal sound wave therapy and focuses sound blasts to the area of pain.
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