It is currently widely accepted among clinicians that chronic tendinopathy is caused by a degenerative process devoid of inflammation. The evidence for non-inflammatory degenerative processes alone as the cause of tendinopathy is surprisingly weak. 

In this podcast, Jon Rees a rheumatologist at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust tells Jill Cook why the role of inflammation offers potential opportunities in treating chronic tendinopathies and should be explored further.

Read the article online: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2013/03/08/bjsports-2012-091957.full

Time to revisit inflammation in tendons, with Jon Rees

BMJ talk medicine