Michael Batdorf, an avid pickleball player, recently experienced an Achilles tendon rupture while playing. "I was backpedaling and I fell in a heap, and I thought someone hit me in the back of the ...
Overuse tendinopathy is problematic to manage clinically. People of different ages with tendons under diverse loads present with varying degrees of pain, irritability, and capacity to function.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a rupture of the FDS tendon of the long finger (Fig 1). At surgery, the digit was explored through a volar Bruner incision centered over the PIP joint.