Palpation can be useful for the diagnosis and assessment of tendinopathy, but there are limits. This is because non-painful tendons can be tender, and tenderness in painful tendons seems to be very slow to get better. 

Link to Evidence for Improvement in Local but not Diffuse Pressure Pain Thresholds Following Physical Therapist Interventions for Tendinopathy: A Systematic Review

Link to  Reproducibility and clinical utility of tendon palpation to detect patellar tendinopathy in young basketball players

Palpation can be useful for the diagnosis and assessment of tendinopathy, but there are limits. This is because non-painful tendons can be tender, and tenderness in painful tendons seems to be very slow to get better. 
Link to <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ptj/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ptj/pzac159/6825273?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Evidence for Improvement in Local but not Diffuse Pressure Pain Thresholds Following Physical Therapist Interventions for Tendinopathy: A Systematic Review</a>
Link to  <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1724272/">Reproducibility and clinical utility of tendon palpation to detect patellar tendinopathy in young basketball players</a>

This podcast will delve deep into the best and most clinically relevant new studies on tendinopathy. The focus is what questions the researchers tried to answer and why, how they did it, what they found, and very importantly, the so what factor. That is, how can it be applied to the clinic and to individual tendinopathy patients.

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