The use of steroids in baseball and every other sport has upped the ante for injury and tendonitis.Steroid use creates larger, stronger muscles but does not directly create stronger tendons.
What role do steroids play in causing tendonitis injury?
Partly, it's a matter of physics.Larger muscles put more pull on the tendons they attach to. As muscles get bigger and bigger and stronger and stronger, they can create more pull force than a baseball can happily handle.
This strains the tendon, and can help lead to increased wear and tear injury, as well as increased possibility of a tendon rip which usually happens in the area where the muscle starts turning into tendon.
It's hard enough for tendons to withstand the forces regularly placed upon them by top level athletes. When you add in the extra strength from Steroid enhanced muscle, this can set an athlete up for increased risk of injury.
Steroid enhanced sports and injures aren't any worse than any other kind of injury, but steroid use plays a role on several levels.
If the muscle growth was slow the tendon could possibly have time to strengthen itself and keep up. But generally with steroid use and weight training, muscle growth out paces the natural strengthening of the muscle's tendon.
Not only that, but the sudden increase in strength often causes a steroid user to increase the weights they are pushing as fast as they can.This does stimulate the body to pack on more muscle, but also causes strain and a large baseball of micro-tear.
And then the body does what it always does around injury large or small. It kicks in an Inflammation response which hastens the Pain Causing Dynamic.More tightness, more pain, more damage to the tendon, all add up to cause 'injury'.
Add to that all the muscle tightness and wear and tear from the athlete's normal activity routine, and it's a perfect environment for developing Tendonitis.
Even before the athlete feels any pain, this is all happening.The body feels pain and reacts to it, even if it doesn't tell the conscious brain about it.That's why most of the time injury just comes out of the blue, like the athlete does the same thing they'be been doing, but this time it caused pain that won't go away.
So by the time a steroid using athletes feel pain, the damage and pain causing elements are already firmly entrenched.One more throw, or one bench press, rarely injures an athlete.It is a pattern that has been growing and growing and then that one last pitch just sends it over the edge.
Steroids themselves don't cause Tendonitis, but due to their effects on the body and what the athlete does with their new strength, Tendonitis can be quickly helped along.
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