My doctor is skimping on the time he spends with me, so I don't have a clear sense of how to avoid this sort of thing.
FWIW, the only useful things I know:
"Eccentric exercise" can be miraculously good for tendinitis (i.e. just doing the "eccentric" half of a weight exercise -- the bit where the muscle is lengthening, as when you're lowering a weight -- in a slow and controlled way. Lifting the weight into position with both hands and lowering it with one is often a good strategy to achieve this).
And strengthening the external rotators and supraspinatus is helpful to ward off shoulder wackiness of various sorts.
However, I don't know anything about calcific tendinitis, so I'm not sure whether any of this would apply. Googling seems to suggest that the medical consensus is pretty much "So, a calcium deposit forms, and ... no, we have no clue why, really. Um. Maybe it'll go away."
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Date: 5/16/09 08:15 pm (UTC)FWIW, the only useful things I know:
"Eccentric exercise" can be miraculously good for tendinitis (i.e. just doing the "eccentric" half of a weight exercise -- the bit where the muscle is lengthening, as when you're lowering a weight -- in a slow and controlled way. Lifting the weight into position with both hands and lowering it with one is often a good strategy to achieve this).
And strengthening the external rotators and supraspinatus is helpful to ward off shoulder wackiness of various sorts.
However, I don't know anything about calcific tendinitis, so I'm not sure whether any of this would apply. Googling seems to suggest that the medical consensus is pretty much "So, a calcium deposit forms, and ... no, we have no clue why, really. Um. Maybe it'll go away."