Response to considerations on "Achilles tendinopathy and patellar tendinopathy display opposite changes in elastic properties"
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Tucker, K
Vicenzino, B
Vuvan, V
Mellor, R
Heales, L
Nordez, A
Hug, F
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We thank Wu (2017) and the editors for the opportunity to provide greater discussion on the association of tendon shear wave velocity (SWV) with potentially important covariates including sex and age. We would like to first clarify that we did not directly compare the Achilles and patellar tendinopathy groups. Instead, the (most) affected tendon from each tendinopathy group was compared with a matched tendon from the healthy control group. Due to the blinded nature of this study, we sought to include a broad cohort of healthy control participants and performed statistical adjustment for age, sex, body mass index, and tendon thickness in all models. Although not without limitation, we consider this approach provides some meaningful information in response to the comments raised in this letter to the editor.
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Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports
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© 2018 Blackwell Verlag GmbH. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Response to considerations on “Achilles tendinopathy and patellar tendinopathy display opposite changes in elastic properties”, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, Volume 28, Issue 4, Pages 1471-1472, 2018, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13025. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Sports science and exercise
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SHEAR-WAVE ELASTOGRAPHY
TENDON
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Coombes, BK; Tucker, K; Vicenzino, B; Vuvan, V; Mellor, R; Heales, L; Nordez, A; Hug, F, Response to considerations on "Achilles tendinopathy and patellar tendinopathy display opposite changes in elastic properties", Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 2018, 28 (4), pp. 1471-1472