Tendon strains/tears

[Itisisaysme510]

For those of you who have experienced tendon strains and/or tears, is there anything you have done to avoid or prevent reinjury? Any stretching, specific exercises, nutrition/supplementation? Dial back the gear? I heard taking type 1 collagen can help but i dont know the extent that helps for existing injuries. Anyway, any guidance or insight is appreciated.

 

[bbxtreme]

More context would be helpful. Stats, current or past injury etc.

First and foremost a tendon tear and strain are very different levels. You would need MRI images to confirm which it was.

A strain is time, working around the injury, fixing what caused it in the first place and addressing lack of nutrients, inflammation, and the root cause.

A tear would require much of the same, but you would have to avoid the area all together with training and will require much more time to heal. PT for sure.

Yes Type I and III collagen peptides are the ideal source. As someone on here once said they are your whey protein for tendons. 10-20g daily.

However if your tendons are not keeping up and are injuring it means you are lacking in nutrients, recovery, have high inflammation or are training with improper form.

Check your diet/lifestyle, critique your form, optimize your sleep and recovery and then lean on PT and things like BPC and TB500. Yes, some will use low amounts of nandralone strategically as it does increase collagen synthesis, but that will require diet and supplements are in order.

In terms of lowering the dosage- don’t take more than you need. Don’t run a blast if you’re recovering form an injury and don’t drop to TRT because you think you “have to” as your dosages should be set to your health and physique goals- the body likes balance, not extremes.

 

[Itisisaysme510]

Excellent and insightful response, thank you sir!

 

[M@NU]

the most important thing to avoid tendon tears (learnt it the hard way)
- dont ignore smaller injuries/pain/overuse injuries

 

[Alzadosghost]

Not really a whole lot you can do to stop it from happening. High doses of testosterone can definitely make them brittle over time. As will age. At this point Iv just about tore them all and had a ton of surgeries. Football and cutting trees injured a lot of me. So did pressing heavy. If I could do it all different I’d lighten it all up. Don’t have to pick up trains to get big and strong. And for every huge fucking lifting super heavy there’s a guy with injuries in their future

 

[UCP]

Exercise sequencing can help with this - Start with the short range movements for high reps (ex. spider curl) prior to longer range movements that place the tendon under stress (ex. inc curl). The blood / movement will help prep the area / tendon for when it is under greater tension.

Ultimately the best prevention is to progressively train the tendon, i.e. gradually working into extreme ranges so the tendons can handle greater stress without injury. Tendons can be trained just like muscles however they take longer to adapt and there is a greater risk of injury when doing so, always approach these movements with caution.

 

[Celt123456]

Have had very positive results with hgh/bpc157/tb500 combo lately when recovering from tendon reattachment surgery.

HGH alone wasn't have a major impact but then addition of bpc157/tb500 led to a rapid increase in rate of recovery.

 

[cuz]

the most important thing to avoid tendon tears (learnt it the hard way)
- dont ignore smaller injuries/pain/overuse injuries

This

 

[Fa Seeshus]

Make sure your estro levels aren't tanked. They need to be in the normal range.

 

[AllOkJumpmaster]

BPC 157, and TB500 + topical DMSO...the only site I trust for peptides is Mike Arnold

also

Nutrition for Injury Recovery – Bodyrecomposition Store

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the best resource for diet during heali8ng an injury, trust me

 

[IronjunkieOG]

How many have tore their Bicep and did not get it repaired? Tore mine once at the elbow, had that repaired. The repair was so good, a few years later the top came detached. I left it the second time and it has not set me back to much although, when lifting something heavy with that arm, it cramps up. Wondering if that will ever go away or is what it is.

 

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[KingOfSushi]

How many have tore their Bicep and did not get it repaired? Tore mine once at the elbow, had that repaired. The repair was so good, a few years later the top came detached. I left it the second time and it has not set me back to much although, when lifting something heavy with that arm, it cramps up. Wondering if that will ever go away or is what it is.

How’d it tear?

 

[IronjunkieOG]

Interestingly enough, the first tear happened when I was lifting a toolbox which was about 3 feet tall from the ground, into the back of my truck. I had one arm fully extended lifting from the bottom and the other arm keeping it balanced at the top and upon getting it 3/4 the way up, the toolbox started to slide a little on the tailgate, so I reacted by giving a hard upward thrust with my extended arm (bad move), then heard an audible tear sounding like velcro.. lol. Oddly enough I felt no pain from this. Needless to say my arm went some what limp allowing the toolbox to fall to the ground and I looked at my wife saying, well that's not good.. lol. The second time, probably 3 years after getting the first tear fixed, I was attempting to lift and slide the rear end of a 4x4 quad on concrete. Again, like and idiot, I assumed the quad would easily move and gave a good yank up and over. While the suspension allowed the quad to raise up, the rear tires were not off the ground so of course the quad did not slide, heard the velcro sound again & knew right away. The root I believe was the quick movement along with my arm being completely extended. I knew better.. lol. It was the same muscle and arm as before but from the top this time.

The reason I chose to leave it was the combination of age, not wanting the down time, and a buddy of mine tore his from the top and has gotten by fine. Sometimes I think maybe I should have went through with the surgery when it cramps up lifting heavy items and wonder if getting back into regular lifting again would offset or even stop the cramping part. I my training these days is off and on with my routine, more so off than on.

Curious to hear other similar experiences and if the cramping part can be offset by bulking up the one attached bicep muscle I have left for that arm, or is it just what it is as far as cramping. Cosmetically, I don't care anymore being almost 50. Not saying I am out of shape and sloppy but just don't care about symmetry like I used to. Still weigh about 210 with 12% body fat at 5'8". In my prime, I walked around at 250 with 10% for 10 of years of my life. I had my greater days and it was fun then so cosmetics are not my focus anymore.

 

[cromespider]

I took all the things, collagen joint supplements gh etc. Tore my right bicep 2018, left one 2021.

However, used gh, boc and tb for my recovery. I would say I healed 25% faster than normal.

If it’s gonna go it’s gonna go….. nothing you can do about it.

 

[cuz]

How many have tore their Bicep and did not get it repaired? Tore mine once at the elbow, had that repaired. The repair was so good, a few years later the top came detached. I left it the second time and it has not set me back to much although, when lifting something heavy with that arm, it cramps up. Wondering if that will ever go away or is what it is.

Tore my proximal 4 years ago and not repaired. It still cramps and bothers me especially when working out. Have a buddy that tore his proximal probably 20 years ago, not repaired, and still cramps.

 

[Cv215]

Tore my distal bicep tendon completely deadlifting a powerlifting meet. I also felt no pain regardless of having a pretty disfigured looking arm because the bicep rolls up quite a bit. Well i didnt feel pain initially. Either way im suprised, overall the injury and surgery with no pain meds other than ibuprofen was acrually way easier than i thoight itd be. Getting ROM back was kinda tough. Nowadays the repaired arm feels stronger than the other.

 

[Alzadosghost]

For those of you who have experienced tendon strains and/or tears, is there anything you have done to avoid or prevent reinjury? Any stretching, specific exercises, nutrition/supplementation? Dial back the gear? I heard taking type 1 collagen can help but i dont know the extent that helps for existing injuries. Anyway, any guidance or insight is appreciated.

Overstretching especially when cold is definitely not good for ligaments or tendon strength. Joints are stiff before overextension for a reason. Overstretching has been proven to cause joint laxity . Further leading ti injury. Too much of certain types of aas, testosterone being one when used at super physiological doses can and will aid in the cause injury as it greatly reduces your natural collagen and elastin stores causing a brittle connective tissue. Keeping your collagen normal can help. Things like hyaluronic acid helps this. Hgh can greatly increase this process on some people. If you’re warming up for an event like sprinting you run to warm up. Lift lighter weights, etc. no exact science to it but the nfl has done a lot of research on injuries and their correlation with weights and even factored in aas use in some of their fact finding. Players using aas were found to be much more injury prone and the severity of injuries were mostly worse with the aas users as well. It could be from the extra body weight added too.

 

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