Review Article

Tendon Tissue Repair in Prospective of Drug Delivery, Regenerative Medicines, and Innovative Bioscaffolds

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Major tendon injuries: (a) tendonitis, inflammation and irritation of tendon tissue, it is short term discomfort, usually caused by body’s immune response; (b) tendinosis, long term issue and chronic pain without inflammation, condition share many symptoms with tendonitis but greatly different in case and appearance, it is common in the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and Achilles’ tendons; (c) tendon rupture, acute condition, complete break off tendon tissue mainly because of overuse or unusual overload and exercise, surgical intervention; (d) rotator cuff injury, tear off rotator cuff tendon that stabilize shoulder, acute condition. Reproduced with permission from references [3133].
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