your phases of a patella tendon or Achilles tendon rehab start loading with something slow because tendons

when you load tendon fast it stresses it more and isometrics are huge because if you hold an isometric

you're not getting that uh sharp pull on the tendon like you said let's get a big burn in that muscle

let's get like two three out of 10 pain nothing's get like two, three out of ten pain.

Nothing above that in the tendon. So that's where the pain thing for me, I'm just like try to

monitor the pain daily. And I think if you keep pain stable, you're probably getting this

filling in of the tendon. He was breaking down how some of the highest jumpers in the NBA

who are completely healthy have the messiest

looking tendons. If slow heavy were the only thing that healed tendons, then what did our

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What's up guys? Welcome to episode 54.

We got my man Jake Tura on the podcast, aka the admin.

If you don't follow him, you better check him out.

Thanks for being here, Jake.

Thank you.

So Jake is an expert on tendons, and specifically he dives a lot into the Patelot tendon.

Where did this obsession come about uh probably i wanted to play college basketball i was terrible though like i was a d3 i was going to be a walk on

um and i guess i had to look back at this i got an MRI and the story was I actually had an event where I

felt like I tweaked my knee partially tore it. I thought it was just like a development thing. Usually you hope Pateleck Tending comes about people just, it just comes on and you're like, oh, but sometimes people have an event where it's like a partial tear, they feel a tweak. And I guess mine was a tweak.

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