Bursitis occurs when one or more bursae – small, fluid-filled sacs that cushion the joints – get irritated and inflamed. Tendinitis also causes joint pain. Unlike bursitis, but, the irritation and inflammation caused by tendinitis affect the tendons, those sinewy fibers that connect muscles to bones. Although bursitis and tendinitis are different problems, it [...]

Tendinitis is a painful inflammation of tendons and of tendon-muscle attachments to bone, usually in the shoulders, hips, Achilles tendons, or hamstrings. Bursitis is a painful inflammation of one or more of the fluid-filled sacs that cover and cushion the ends of bones. Bursitis usually occurs under the shoulder muscles, at the elbows, the [...]