Biceps Tendon Atrophy. Suggestions?

[omoplata]

A good friend of mine (really a friend; not a way to ask a question about myself), 44 years old and former professional athlete, has been diagnosed with significant atrophy of his biceps tendon on his right arm.

Initially (4 months ago) he experiences a small tear on his forearm when doing biceps curls, but all MR and other diagnostics confirmed that this has healed since -and it was a small tear to begin with.

The pain has not gone away, however, and when they now checked the biceps tendon they find nearly 50% atrophy of the tendon on one side versus the other side. The doctors have almost no suggestions as far as true solutions, so he is looking into peptides.

I know peptides have been discussed and a lot of guys gave valuable suggestions, but I want to hear what you think is best for the SPECIFIC SITUATION: no tear of a tendon, no muscle injury as far as docs can tell, severe atrophy of biceps tendon on one side.

I am thinking TB-500 and BPC-157.
What do you all say? Dosages, duration?

On a separate note, do you think eccentrics with semi-heavy loads will help?

 

[syntherolman]

Sounds like he needs a specialist to do an entire tendon replacement.

 

[gotgame]

I have never seen or heard of isolated TENDON atrophy. He could have a partially torn tendon and have some retracted. He could have atrophy of the muscle belly with fatty infiltration secondary to tendon tear or disuse... but isolated tendon atrophy.. never have i diagnosed that.

 

[omoplata]

I have never seen or heard of isolated TENDON atrophy. He could have a partially torn tendon and have some retracted. He could have atrophy of the muscle belly with fatty infiltration secondary to tendon tear or disuse... but isolated tendon atrophy.. never have i diagnosed that.

now that points to a potential misunderstanding on my part. Could it be that the issue is something else and the tendon atrophy is the end result?

What generally happens when you don't (because you can't) use a muscle intensively? Does the tendon atrophy to the same extent as the muscle?
If so, this is a surprise to me, because I always thought that muscles do shrink, but tendons don't to any significant degree and are there in )almost) their full might and glory to help the muscle contract when you do begin to place heavy loads on the muscle...

 

[WhyIncision]

Motor Nerve Stim. 40-70cps

 

[beastmode121]

I injured my bicep tenden long time ago and when it healed, my right bicep was atrophied. I lost the fullness and long bicep that my left arm has. It's frustrating because even my tricep got affected for some reason. there's no solution of its healed and I get tendinitis often unless I'm on DECA or Tren..