When Tendons Turn to Fat: Lessons in Clinical Uncertainty

Dunning-Kruger effect – I know everything: For years, I explained to my patients the benefit of strengthening exercises in degenerative tendinopathy in a simple way: A tendon contains many fibers. If some are damaged or torn, strengthening may improve the capacity of the remaining healthy muscle-tendon units to compensate. Over time, the damaged fibers may…

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