Tendonitis: alternative cures as healing helpers

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Tendonitis: alternative cures as healing helpers

Tuesday, March 6th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Tendonitis is painful, and while the RICE formula (Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation) is the primary tendonitis “cure”, you can find other treatments which will help.

Alternative Health Cures for Tendonitis

If you’re lucky enough to catch your tendonitis in its earliest stages, or at least before the point that your pain is unmanageable with home remedies and over the counter drugs, the ways in which you are able to cure your tendonitis will be greater than those of someone with a more severe case. If you prefer home remedies and natural solutions to treating injuries, there are many home or “alternative” remedies you can try to cure your tendonitis. By “alternative” I simply mean treatments that are easily available to you in your home with simple, natural components.

Home Therapies: RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation

There are many therapies you can administer from your home that are quite effective to cure tendonitis. Ice packs are one of the most valuable ways you can alleviate the symptoms of tendonitis. To most successfully employ ice therapy, apply ice to your ankle for 15-30 minutes and repeat every few hours. Ice therapy is a great tendonitis cure because it helps to alleviate inflammation. If your tendon isn’t too terribly sore to the touch, another great home tendonitis cure is massage. Depending on the location of your tendonitis, you can administer some gentle massage to yourself. If your tendonitis is located in your shoulder, or another hard to reach location, try enlisting a trusted family member or close confidante. You can also find miniature battery operated massagers for a very reasonable price.

Tendonitis Supplements - Take vitamins

Another useful way to alternatively cure tendonitis is through the use of supplements. Vitamin C is well known for its ability to prevent and reduce inflammation, which is a direct result of tendonitis. If you don’t like taking supplements in pill or tablet forms, just increase your intake of plant foods high in Vitamin C. Good sources of Vitamin C include: strawberries, citrus fruit and bell peppers. Make a fruit salad to keep in your refrigerator to snack on throughout the day and you’ll be helping to cure your tendonitis!

Other useful supplements include:

calcium (1,500 mg a day)

magnesium (750 mg a day)

Vitamin A (15,000 IU a day)

Vitamin E (400 to 800 mg a day)

Bromelain (250 to 750 mg three times a day between meals)

Helpful herbs for tendonitis

Herbal teas can help with the pain and inflamation:

Curcumin (Curcuma longa)

Willow (Salix alba) bark tea - avoid if you’re allergic to aspirin

Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) - avoid if you have high blood pressure

Comfrey (Symphytum officinale)

Rest until the inflammation disappears

While resting may not qualify as an “alternative” treatment for curing tendonitis, it is definitely the most crucial. Once you’ve diagnosed your pain as tendonitis allow yourself ample time to rest and stay off the injured area. Resting should accompany all other methods you see for your tendonitis cure. Ice, supplements, even massage will have a minimal effect on curing your tendonitis if you are not resting. Rest is the most natural of tendonitis cures.

Unfortunately, once you have tendonitis it can take a long time to heal. While RICE, vitamins and herbs aren’t a “cure“, they go a long way to making you feel better, and helping you to live a normal life.

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