Blood Flow Restriction Training for Tendinopathy Rehabilitation: A Potential Alternative to Traditional Heavy-Load Resistance Training

Tendinopathy is a chronic tendon disease which can cause significant pain and functional limitations for individuals, collectively places tremendous burden on society. Resistance training has long been considered the treatment of choice in rehabilitation tendinopathies, with both eccentric heavy slow resistance demonstrating positive clinical effects. The application progressive loads during essential to not compromise healing, precise dosage parameters external loading critical consideration. Blood-flow restriction (BFRT) become an increasingly popular method recent years shown be effective enhancing muscle strength hypertrophy healthy populations musculoskeletal rehabilitation. Traditional tendinopathy requires loads, whereas BFRT utilises significantly lower intensities, may more appropriate certain populations. Despite evidence confirming muscular adaptations derived from benefits found other conditions, received dearth attention Therefore, purpose this narrative review was threefold: firstly, give overview analysis mechanisms outcomes Secondly, date effects properties when applied pathology. Finally, discussion utility its potential applications within rehabilitation, including as compliment traditional heavy-load training, presented.