Table 3. Differential diagnosis of tendinopathy depending on localization (except for traumatic, tumoral and infectious diseases).
Localization (% incidence) Risk factors Differential diagnosis
- Wrist and hand (4 to 56% in physical workers) - house cleaner
- physical workers
- rowing
- skiing
- golf
- tennis
- joint hypermobility
- rheumatoid arthritis
- diabetes
- hypothyroidism
- De Quervain’s disease
- other wrist tendinopathies
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- rhizarthrosis
- radial styloiditis
- intersection syndrome
- Guyon’s canal syndrome
- Wartenberg’s syndrome
- Elbow (9 to 40% in tennis players) - tennis
- golf
- physical workers
- tennis elbow
- golf elbow
- C5-C6 radiculopathy (lateral)
- C8-T1 radiculopathy (medial)
- posterior interosseous nerve compression
- radiocapitellar osteoarthritis/chondromalacia
- osteochondritis dissecans capitellum
- rheumatic enthesopathy
- Shoulder (15 to 20% in physical workers and athletes, from 31 to 73% in the wheelchair population) - volleyball
- baseball
- javelin
- swimming
- tennis
- American football
- wheelchair population
- painter
- clerical work (computer)
- rotator cuff tendinopathy
- frozen shoulder
- omarthrosis
- acromio-clavicular pathology
- instability of the shoulder
- labrum / SLAP lesions
- C4-C5-C6 radiculopathy
- nerve lesion (suprascapular, thoracic longus, axillaris nerves)
- Hip (around 0,5% around general population) - excess weight
- skiing
- ice-skating
- roller-skating
- gluteus medius tendinopathy
- greater trochanteric bursitis
- coxarthrosis
- coxitis (spondylarthropathy)
- ilio-tibial band tenderness
- hip osteonecrosis
- pubalgia
- sacroiliac pathology
- labral lesion
- villonodular synovitis
- osteochondromatosis
- stress fracture of the femur or pelvis
- femoroacetabular impingement
- Knee (7 to 40% in sportsmen) - basketball
- volleyball
- soccer
- long-distance running
- orienteering
- ice hockey
- cycling
- track and field
- patellar tendinopathy
- quadriceps tendinopathy
- hamstring tenosynovitis
- patellofemoral pain syndrome
- prepatellar bursitis
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Sinding-Larsen-Johansson Disease
- meniscal lesion
- plica
- Hoffa’s inflammation
- stress fracture of the tibia or fibula
- Ankle (5.9% in sedentary people and around 50% in endurance athletes) - running
- soccer
- track and field
- jumping
- volleyball
- badminton
- orienteering
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Ligament injuries
- Anterior or posterior impingement
- gout
- retrocalcaneal bursitis
- rheumatoid arthritis
- rheumatic fever
- sero-negative arthropathies
- Sever’s Disease
- stress fracture of the calcaneus