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, an enthesopathy refers to a disorder of entheses (bone attachments).

If the condition is known to be inflammatory

Inflammation

Inflammation is part of the complex biological response of vascular tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. Inflammation is a protective attempt by the organism to remove the injurious stimuli and to initiate the healing process...

, it can more precisely be called a enthesitis

Enthesitis

Enthesitis is inflammation of the entheses, the sites where tendons or ligaments insert into the bone. It is also called enthesopathy, or any pathologic condition involving the entheses. The entheses are any point of attachment of skeletal muscles to the bone, where recurring stress or...

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Enthesopathies are disorders of peripheral ligamentous or muscular attachments,

abnormalities in the zones of attachment, for ligaments and tendons to bone.

Examples

Examples include spondyloarthropathy

Spondyloarthropathy

Spondyloarthropathy is any joint disease of the vertebral column. Spondyloarthropathy with inflammation is called spondylarthritis. In contrast, spondylopathy is a disease of the vertebra itself, but many conditions involve both spondylopathy and spondyloarthropathy...

 such as ankylosing spondylitis

Ankylosing spondylitis

Ankylosing spondylitis , previously known as Bekhterev's disease, Bekhterev syndrome, and Marie-Strümpell disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton with variable involvement of peripheral joints and nonarticular structures...

, plantar fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis is a painful inflammatory process of the plantar fascia, the connective tissue on the sole of the foot.Longstanding cases of plantar fasciitis often demonstrate more degenerative changes than inflammatory changes, in which case they are termed plantar fasciosis. The suffix...

, 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