Collagen to heal tendinitis?

I view taking collagen as giving my body the building blocks to treat tendinopathies. But they are just that, building blocks. It's up to you to put your body in the position to use those building blocks.

There's a few things you can do. Most tendinopathies are non-inflammatory. Inflammation is the body's response to damage. It is the healing response. It's gotten a bad reputation because the body tends to go completely overboard.

You can go the non-inflammatory route. If it's acute, rest. If not, doing eccentrics and heavy slow resistance (HSR; tempo training 3-0-3) to rebuild those tendons. Use weights that you can feel your dysfunction with minimal pain (1-2/10).

Or you can go the inflammatory route (Rippetoe). Pretty much increase intensity and volume to induce/increase inflammation so the body can heal it.

Of course there's always medications/supplements like BPC or Cortisone injections. I find those have success rates at 50/50.

Hope this helps.

From your post in another thread:

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If it is still bothering you, after that time frame, then I would say you are in the chronic stage of tendinopathy (tendinosis)

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This is me I guess. Bothering me since Oct/Nov. BPC didn’t help. What do I do now?

Thank you I appreciate it!!!

Guess I’m an idiot.
Can’t really come up with a plan.
Can you lay it out for me like I’m in kindergarten?
Golfer elbow left
Tennis elbow right
Thought tendinitis but it’s been since October so probably tendinopathy

This exercise...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aeE_Lh-KWZQ

But doing HSR. Tempo is 3 seconds concentric, 0 seconds hold, 3 seconds eccentric. To make it simpler, take 3 seconds to go up and 3 seconds to go down without pausing.

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Should I feel the tendinitis or pain at all during the movement?

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Use an intensity (weight) that you can feel a little bit of that dysfunction and a little bit of pain (1-2/10). When you don't feel that pain/dysfunction anymore increase the weight until it's back to a 1-2/10.

As I said, usually it takes around 12 weeks. If you are feeling good in week 8 keep doing the exercises. After the 12 weeks try to incorporate those exercises, or variations of, once or twice a week.

In the meantime, Golfer's and Tennis Elbow are all about your grip. You can start to use straps to hold on to the bar and even use "tennis elbow forearm straps" to decrease the tension on your epicondyles (where those muscles connect to the elbow).

PT and S&C. With that being said, any advice you get on here is just that, advice. I'm not able to "diagnose" conditions without examining someone. So I answer questions in a matter of fact way. I don't know if you have tendinitis or not, but I'm just answering your question of "how to treat...".

Flex bars are good for grip work. I don't have anything against them. I would say lay off of it until your elbows are feeling much better. Tendonitis usually happen when people incorporate something new. Something those muscles aren't conditioned for. With your case, you probably started some new exercise when this began that worked those muscles harder or in a different way.

Depends on the collagen you are using. If you are using the Vital Proteins that comes in the blue can that you can get at Costco and WalMart etc it’s garbage. Also, it takes several weeks of consistent use to start getting benefits. 20g a day isn’t going to do anything other than make your fingernails and hair grow. You need closer to 60g a day for 10 to 12 weeks to see any difference for training purposes.

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