Tendinopathy: Debate on concepts and pathogenesis / 中国组织工程研究

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Tendinopathy is a hotspot in the fields of sports medicine and rehabilitation, but there have been many controversies about the concept, mechanism and pathological stages of tendinopathy for a long. OBJECTIVE: To systematically review and summarize the related concepts of tendinopathy, the role of inflammation in the occurrence of tendinopathy and the pathological mechanism of tendinopathy. METHODS: CNKI, VIP, CBM, WanFang, PubMed and Embase databases were searched. From the aspects of tendinopathy, enthesis, inflammation and pathological mechanism, some related research results since 1990 were retrieved and summarized. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: The results show that the debate on the concept of tendinopathy is based on the understanding of its pathological mechanism, and the understanding of the pathological mechanism of tendinopathy will continue to be improved with the emergence of more high-quality researches. The research on the relationship between tendinopathy and inflammation, the relationship between tendinopathy and load patterns, and the mechanical characteristics of enthesis will be a future focus.