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How Eccentric Exercises Help Treat Patellar Tendonitis

How Eccentric Exercises Help Treat Patellar Tendonitis

Patellar tendonitis, often known as jumper’s knee, is a common injury that causes pain in the tendon connecting the kneecap to the shinbone. It frequently affects athletes who participate in sports that involve jumping, sprinting, or sudden changes in direction. However, it can also develop in active adults who place repeated stress on their knees during work or exercise.

Eccentric exercise training is one of the best treatments for patellar tendonitis. Physical therapists frequently prescribe these exercises to build tendon strength, reduce pain, and improve knee function without simply resting or relying on medications.

What Are Eccentric Exercises?

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Can DMSO help soft tissue injuries

Can DMSO help soft tissue injuries?

Could DMSO be useful and effective in helping to accelerate the healing of soft tissue injuries? It is definitely an alternative strategy that you may want to investigate. It has been extremely effective for my rotator cuff issues and keeps me “banging” away on the pickleball court. Yes, I am still trying to master the softer side of the game. Ha! 

Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) treats soft tissue injuries primarily by acting as a powerful anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and analgesic agent that rapidly penetrates skin to reduce swelling and pain. It acts as a free radical scavenger to halt tissue damage, accelerates healing by boosting fibroblast proliferation, and reduces edema.

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What do you know about grass-fed beef?

What do you know about grass-fed beef?

See, grass-fed beef is one of the most nutrient-dense, health-transforming, delicious foods on this planet. It’s a real superfood. Unfortunately, it doesn’t get the credit it’s due!

If you’re thinking, “Whatttt??” keep reading to learn 6 reasons why I adore grass-fed beef—and 2 big myths that hold people back from enjoying it. 

6 Reasons I Love Grass-Fed Beef

1) Grass-Fed Beef Has 5x MORE Omega-3s Than Grain-Fed

That’s significant because more than half of us consume inadequate levels of anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats. In fact, a 2009 Harvard study revealed that omega-3 deficiency kills up to 96,000 Americans each year!

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facing stress in your life

Are you having difficulty managing stress in your life?

Here is another helpful post sent to us from Susan Peterson at https://easytolovepets.com/blog-posts/

How to Boost Wellness and Pain Relief with Simple Self-Improvement Steps

Adults and athletes in Beverly and Newburyport often push through pain, injury, and stiffness until everyday movement or training starts to feel frustrating and uncertain. The hard part is that recovery can stall when stress stays high, sleep gets choppy, and the body feels disconnected from what the mind wants it to do. Optimal wellness doesn’t require a perfect starting point; it grows from simple self-improvement strategies that support stress reduction benefits, steady fitness and recovery, and a calmer mind-body balance. Small changes can help the body feel safer, stronger, and more capable.

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Hamstrings Explained

What Causes Tight Hamstrings and Why Stretching Sometimes Fails

What’s really causing your patients’ “tight hamstrings” in up to 76% of patients? Find out in this new study by Pesesse et al. (2025).

The authors assessed 178 asymptomatic adults to determine whether the discomfort limiting their hamstring range of movement (ROM) was muscular or neural.

They split them into two groups, who received one of the following assessment tests:

  1. Straight leg raise (SLR), or
  2. Knee extension angle (KEA)—taking them into 90 degrees of hip flexion, then passively extending the knee.

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