hxe@rayssd.UUCP (06/19/84)
Yes, tendonitis *does* heal, but it takes a very long time if you
don't catch it right away (and who does?). Most of us think that
a slight pain is just that - a slight pain - and ignore it. If
it's tendonitis, we just aggravate it more until it's a big pain.
I had tendonitis in the arch of my foot and danced in a Rockettes-
style show for three weeks before I realized that it would not go
away. I was in a walking cast for two months, and an ace bandage
for several weeks after that, but I did get over it. Now I run
fairly regularly and occasionally get tendonitis in my heel (left
over from the strain of taking over for the tendon in my arch),
but I stop as soon as I feel the twinge and it goes away in two
days. The moral: 1. There *is* life after tendonitis; it just takes
at least a month to get over the first bout. 2. Learn to recognize
an onset of tendonitis immediately and you should never have any more
problems.
-Heather Emanuel
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