- Blood platelets are important for helping a tendon heal because they contain growth factors that can activate the stalled healing process in tendinosis. However, tendons don't have a lot of blood vessels in them.
- To do a tenotomy, your doctor numbs the area with local anesthetic and then uses a needle to repeatedly poke the tendon and cause the tendon to bleed.
- According to the Hall Health Primary Care Center, the risks of a tenotomy are bleeding, infection, pain, tendon rupture and lack of improvement.
- According to the Hall Health Primary Care Center, sometimes tenotomy alone is enough to stimulate healing and sometimes it is combined with other procedures.
- Surgeons also use the word tenotomy to describe cutting a tendon to relieve a deformity caused by congenital or acquired shortening of a muscle.
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