Patellar Tendinopathy Relapse? Or is it normal ?
I have been dealing with patellar tendinopathy since january 2026 (5 months), i made it worse by playing on it for another 3 months until i stopped in April.
I am a high level football/soccer player and have been obsessively trying to comeback so i naturally looked up everything from Jake Tuura to E3 Rehab to other language channels that cover PT.
its been 4 weeks of Jake Tuura's programme now and have been making great progress, i was able to do slow heavy squats at 70kg/ 155 lbs (i slowly increased the weight from session to session with 0 pain during exercice and 2/10 pain at MAX the mornings that followed).
Until yesterday, where my tendon was feeling a little bit more painful than usual but not more than a 3/10, i added some sissy squat because they seemed to hit a part i wasn't hitting and also did some very VERY light football(jogged and shot the ball a couple times at not even 20% intensity).
Now my tendon is painful, stairs hurt again where they didnt anymore for like 4 weeks, bending my knee hurts, flexing it hurts. I feel like i will have to regress a lot on my progress and i am very anxious and stressed about it. Football was and is my life for years now and i feel like i am wasting precious time from my life dealing with this .