Friday, October 16, 2015
Knee pain? Back pain? Tendon problem or high cholesterol
Your doctor wants to blame all your joint pain on body weight or over excercising. They say "here take this anti-inflammatory and try not to move too much. It'll get better eventually." But what if your tendon pain wasn't caused by just inflammation from overworking your tendons. We aren't treating the root cause of the pain then only the symptoms.
Well some researchers have seen that high cholesterol may be the cause of some tendon pain. Specifically that abnormal tendon shape and thickness coorelates to a high lipid content in the blood. We do not know if this is an effect or a causation. But we do know that high levels of cholesterol changes the immune system which then seems likely to cause low levels of inflammation. But in any case bad lipid levels in the blood shows bad tendons.
The researchers do point out that people with high cholesterol may work out less and therefore have a higher body weight that then causes tendon abnormality. So all in all we did some work, read somethings, and may or may not have discovered anything of any use. The article doesn't answer some main questions like: will treating the cholesterol levels change the joint pain.
Here's the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151015211823.htm
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In those with high cholesterol, how do they confirm that the pain is due to the high cholesterol levels and not an actual tendon?
ReplyDeleteYou make a good point that there might be no discovery because usually high cholesterol goes hand in hand with someone who works out less and has a higher body weight. The test should be done more on people who possibly have high cholesterol levels who work out and do not weigh a lot, but this is extremely rare I am sure.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking the same thing as Dwight. If they could do a study that had both active and less active individuals with high cholesterol, it would interesting to see the results.
ReplyDeleteDo you know of any other possible causes of joint pain besides the ones from this article?
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of causes for joint pain. Including overuse.
DeleteI agree doctors only seem to treat the symptoms and not the actual problem. The problem could be from high cholesterol levels or not but either way I feel like it should be studied more to confirm or disprove this idea.
ReplyDeleteHmmm... There's always been problems with our knees in my family and with high Cholesterol as well. I wonder if maybe our cholesterol levels are actually due to what the article says. However, I feel like the article needs more information to be able to make that correlation.
ReplyDeleteSame here! Diabetes runs in my dad's side of the family and double knee replacements run in my mom's side of the family, so I'm doomed!! I've already had two knee surgeries in the past 4 years, but they were from being active or clutsy. Unfortunately, it has affected my ability to run, so I haven't been as active, which doesn't help the cholesterol issue - a never ending cycle!!
Deletethey really kinda published a paper saying "we discovered something, maybe, possibly, welllll its likely."
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