Tendinitis

Tendinitis (derived from the Latin tendo = tendon and Greek -itis ( - ίτις ) = flammable (s disease); German tendinitis ) is the medical term for an inflammatory condition of the tendons in the context of other diseases of the rheumatic diseases. Erroneously ( tendinopathy ) understood by the term often diseases caused by overloading the tendons. In addition to symptomatic therapy in the form of medication for pain and inflammation with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and conservation treatment of the underlying disease is paramount.

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• Roche Lexikon Medizin [Electronic resource ] 5th edition; Elsevier GmbH, Urban & Fischer Verlag; Munich / Jena 2003; ISBN 3-437-15072-3

• Disease in rheumatology