Case studies and articles
The Sound Experience team publish regular educational case studies, research digests and opinions.
Corticosteroid injections in tendinopathy: why we will continue to follow guidelines.
From time to time we have a request for an injection into a tendon. With a clear rationale and usually a documented history of reasonable rehabilitation failing we may make an exception.
This post summarises a recently published article, incorporating a brief quality appraisal of recent evidence, and presents a coherent opinion reinforcing why we will continue to recommend against most tendon steroid injections.
A painful Achilles tendon; first impressions and an ultrasound examination. Do the findings impact the rehabilitation?
After slipping down a hill, a 61-year-old man presented with a painful Achilles region. First impressions show a tendon most closely fitting with Cook and colleagues’ definition of degenerative tendinopathy, but why then the pain?