Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●International Scientific Tendinopathy Symposium (ISTS): Consensus statement on clinical terminology (2020)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't order an MRI as an initial investigation for suspected rotator cuff tendinopathy (updated 2020)

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe opiates as first line treatment for tendinopathies (updated 2020)

United States

●American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS): Evidence-based clinical practice guideline on the management of rotator cuff injuries (2019)

●American Physical Therapy Association (APTA): Clinical practice guidelines on Achilles pain, stiffness, and muscle power deficits – Midportion Achilles tendinopathy, revision (2018)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic ankle pain (revised 2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic wrist pain (revised 2017)

●Choosing Wisely: Avoid ordering MRI in patients with suspected acute Achilles tendon ruptures (2017)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria chronic elbow pain (1998, reviewed 2015)

●American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM): A position statement on overuse injuries and burnout in youth sports (2014)

●American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM): Practice guidelines on elbow disorders (2013)

●National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA): Position statement on the prevention of pediatric overuse injuries (2011)

Europe

●European Society of Musculoskeletal Radiology (ESSR): Guidelines of MR imaging of sports injuries (2016)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on extracorporeal shockwave therapy for Achilles tendinopathy (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on autologous blood injection for tendinopathy (2013)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on extracorporeal shockwave therapy for refractory tennis elbow (2009)

●Royal College of Physicians (RCP): A national guideline on upper limb disorders – Occupational aspects of management (2009)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for calcific tendonitis (tendinopathy) of the shoulder (2003)

Australia-New Zealand

●Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP): HANDI physiotherapy – Lateral epicondylitis (2016)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japanese guideline for management of lateral epicondylitis (2011)