Tuesday, January 18, 2005. Tweet. Grapefruit juice can be dangerous for people on certain medications, nurse researchers remind doctors, nurses, and everyone who takes medicine and enjoys grapefruit juice, in a paper in the American Journal of Nursing, a journal of the American Nurses Association.
Tendonitis is irritation or inflammation of a tendon. Tendonitis is usually caused from repetitive motion such as sports type injuries. In an auto accident injury this would be caused from sudden or direct force applied to the area of concern.
Overuse and Abuse. Tendinitis is caused by the rapid convergence of white blood cells on an injured tendon, provoking an inflammatory reaction. Normal tendon strands lie side by side, but when suffering from tendinitis, they swell and bump against each other. The injured area is warm to the touch and can be quite painful.