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- Many people have tendon pain in knees, shoulders, or elbows.
- It affects both young athletes and older people.
- Tendon pain often comes from too much load on tendons.
- HIF1 is a protein found in tendon cells.
- Higher HIF1 levels can start tendon damage.
- Damaged tendons become stiffer and break more easily.
- Blood vessels and nerves can grow into tendon tissue.
- This growth helps explain why the pain appears.
- When damage is advanced, physiotherapy may not help.
Difficult words
- tendon — strong tissue that connects muscle to bonetendons
- protein — a molecule in cells that does work
- damage — harm or injury to a part of body
- stiff — not soft, hard to bend or movestiffer
- physiotherapy — treatment with exercises to help the body
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Discussion questions
- Have you ever had tendon pain?
- Do you play sports?
- Would you try physiotherapy if you had tendon pain?
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