Friday 15 January 2010

Possible Tendinos/Tendinopathy Treatment: Leg Roller


Another technique that I have found useful......
So that I could work on my trigger points myself I got hold of a foam leg roller which I can use to apply my body weight to the trigger points and also roll the muscles and tendons to condition them. I used this over a period of a month and found that in the beginning pressure on the points was very very painful (could not apply body weight) and caused the nerves and tendons around the knee to 'fire' in sympathy. I stuck with using a mixture of straight on pressure and rolling and it got easier and easier to the point at which the physio can no longer find the trigger points and pressing down (using the roller) on those areas no longer causes any sympathetic firing around the knee. This seems to have had a good impact on the wet/cold/neurological feelings I had around both knees (and seems to have helped sitting still for long periods) but had not had any impact on the deeper and problematic areas of pain and stiffness on pat and quad tendons. SO - another useful technique for management but does not lead to a cure!

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