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Achilles tendon pain, tennis elbow, swimmer's shoulder, and jumper's knee affect both young athletes and older adults. These painful conditions develop when tendons are pushed beyond their limits and repeatedly strained.
"Tendons are fundamentally susceptible to overuse," explains Jess Snedeker, a professor of orthopaedic biomechanics at ETH Zurich and Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich. "They must withstand powerful loads, with all the forces of our muscl...
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