Fluoroquinolones and Training: The Antibiotic That Can Snap a Tendon in the Second Week

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Most antibiotics are irrelevant to training. Fluoroquinolones - ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, ofloxacin, moxifloxacin - are the exception, because they carry a documented risk to the very tissue athletes load hardest: tendon. The risk is uncommon, but it arrives on a predictable timetable, it has clear amplifiers, and it can end a season in a single push-off.

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