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In medicine, an enthesopathy refers to a disorder of entheses (bone attachments).^[1]

If the condition is known to be inflammatory, it can more precisely be called a enthesitis.

Enthesopathies are disorders of peripheral ligamentous or muscular attachments.

Examples

Examples include spondyloarthropathy such as ankylosing spondylitis, plantar fasciitis, and Achilles tendinitis.

• Adhesive capsulitis of shoulder
• Rotator cuff syndrome of shoulder and allied disorders
• Periarthritis of shoulder
• Scapulohumeral fibrositis
• Enthesopathy of elbow region
• Enthesopathy of wrist and carpus
• Bursitis of hand or wrist
• Periarthritis of wrist
• Enthesopathy of hip region
• Bursitis of hip
• Gluteal tendinitis
• Iliac crest spur
• Psoas tendinitis
• Trochanteric tendinitis
• Enthesopathy of knee
• Enthesopathy of ankle, tarsus and calcaneous
• Other peripheral enthesopathies
• Unspecified enthesopathy

References

External links

• ChiroWeb
• iii_1/e/enthesopathy article at GE's Medcyclopaedia