Meet the editor

Dr. Hasan Sözen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Education and Sport at Ordu University (Ordu, Turkey). His primary research interest includes sport and exercise physiology. Dr. Sözen received his PhD from the Health Science Institute, Department of Physical Education and Sport at Ondokuz Mayıs University (Samsun, Turkey). He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health

at the University of Milan (Milan, Italy), and his thesis was titled "Electromechanical delay components assessment to disclose age, training status and gender effects on skeletal muscle electromechanical behavior during contraction: new insights from an electromyographic, mechanomyographic and force combined approach". The fellowship was supported by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBİTAK).

Contents

Introductory Chapter: Tendons

Tendon Structure and Classification

*by Murat Kaya, Nazım Karahan and Barış Yılmaz*

*by Stephanie C. Torres-Ayala, Alvaro Bravo-Martínez,* 

Exercise and Tendon Remodeling Mechanism

Management of Flexor Tendon Injuries in Hand *by Tawheed Ahmad, Summaira Jan and Saima Rashid*

Rabbit Extra-Articular Bone Tunnel Model

*by Kwang-Il Lee, Ju-Woong Jang and Kwang-Won Lee*

Patellar Tendinopathy: "Jumper's Knee" *by Mayur Nayak and Rahul Yadav*

*by Hasan Sözen*

Imaging of Tendons

*and Gracielle Vieira Ramos*

Disease *by Janina Burk*

*by Justin Yousef*

**Preface III**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 5**

**Chapter 3 15**

**Chapter 4 37**

**Chapter 5 57**

**Chapter 6 69** Mechanisms of Action of Multipotent Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Tendon

**Chapter 7 101**

**Chapter 8 123**

**Chapter 9 139**

Physiology of Flexor Tendon Healing and Rationale for Treatment Protocols

The Injectable rhBMP-2-containing Collagen Gel for Tendon Healing in a

*Amanda P. Marrero-González, Luis R. Rodriguez-Ortíz and Jorge A. Vidal*

*by Rita de Cassia Marqueti, Ivo Vieira de Sousa Neto, Fabricio Reichert Barin* 
