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I sorry to hear, its a very annoying issue. I get tendonitis in my achilles, it flairs up very occasionally, but when it does its horrible. My right tendon gets hot and much much bigger than my left, can take days to cool down but stays oversize for a surprising amount of time.
Once it starts I can make it through a few extra weeks of hockey games by icing it immediately post game, raising it up and not doing anything on it for the rest of the week. but after 3 games of that and a few ibuprofen its untenable to keep going, in my experience anything less than 5/6 weeks complete rest means it flairs up again almost immediately.
After the many weeks rest I build up slowly with lots of ankle dips on a stair, then long walks, medium easy cycles before, then short runs, then 5 a side, and finally back up to proper activity. its a fair few weeks work, but it does avoid another trip to the doctors.
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Struggling with patella tendonitis at the moment which has stopped any running since my birthday on 29th March. I stupidly wanted to ride 100 miles on Zwift to celebrate the big 3-0, ran a couple times afterwards and have well and truly exacerbated a case of PT in both legs.
I've been doing very gentle, high cadence cycling since then but the issue still persists. Around a 3/4 out of 10 on the discomfort scale at the moment. Really itching to get back out running and riding properly again but hard to know how much to do/when. Another day off today. It sucks! Anyone on here with experience of this injury?