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A 41-year-old male asked:
What is a calcific tendonitis?
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Dr. Mark Hutchinsonanswered
Orthopedic Surgery 36 years experience
Calcified cuff: Calcific tendonitis is an unusual stage of rotator cuff tendoninopathy in which the chronic inflammation actually begins to calcify the tendon first with a milky chalky fluid but later in can turn into harder bone like calcifications. First treatment is usually anti-inflammatory medications but surgical decompression may also help.
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Dr. Jeffrey Wintanswered
Hand Surgery 37 years experience
It is simply : Tendinitis caused a deposit of calcium in soft tissues and tendons this causes pain information at the site of the calcium deposits.
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Last updated Jun 5, 2018
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