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Yes, this had me benched for best part of three months many years ago. As with all these things, I don't know whether it healed of its own accord or whether I helped it along by following physio advice, but FWIW the main exercise I did to strengthen the muscles around the tendon was squats, initially two legs then one-legged squats, but on an incline board which helps to isolate the quad which you're strengthening, whilst taking strain off the lower leg.
https://www.fix-knee-pain.com/eccentric-slant-board-squats-patellar-tendonitis/
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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?