Achilles

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I've been having trouble with my achilles tendon since somewhere around the beginning of December.

The best way I can describe the pain is that when I push on the tendon it feels like a very deep bruise. It also hurts when I run, sometimes even when I walk, and when I just get up after sitting or lying down for awhile (no blood in the foot I guess)

Umm, I went to physio and was told to stretch the calve as well as try to strengthin it. The stretching helped quite a bit at first but did not completely heal the injury.

I think I orignally got the injury because of the way I run - the back of my heel makes contact with the ground first - but I have been making a concious effort to change that.

Still, it just won't go away.

Any ideas?

[Vlad]

First of all, stay away from the activies that cause the pain. If it's inflammation of the surrounding tissues or tendon itself (Tendinitis), you don't want to make it worse. Second, I would advice to go and see your doctor or physio teraphist since the pain might be caused by the bones.

Also, it can be a rupture - it can either partitial or complete. If it's partitial now, you can make it complete by running or stretching. It's been almost 3.5 month since December and I'm not sure iflammation stays that long unless you really irriated it. Rupture requires surgical treatment.


Can you pinpoint the exact position of the pain. How many centimeters over the calcaneus (Heelbone)?

I can give you a simple rehabilitation program, BUT if it's rupture, it will only make things worse.

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First off, thanks for the reply. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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If it's inflammation of the surrounding tissues or tendon itself (Tendinitis), you don't want to make it worse. Second, I would advice to go and see your doctor or physio teraphist since the pain might be caused by the bones.


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I've been to physio and they were using ultra sound on the injured area as well as getting me to do stretches and calve raises. The strecthes did help the injury a bit but did not fully heal it.

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Also, it can be a rupture - it can either partitial or complete. If it's partitial now, you can make it complete by running or stretching. It's been almost 3.5 month since December and I'm not sure iflammation stays that long unless you really irriated it. Rupture requires surgical treatment.

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I thought there was a chance that I may need surgery but because the strecthing helped maybe it's just inflammation?

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Can you pinpoint the exact position of the pain. How many centimeters over the calcaneus (Heelbone)?

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I would say the pain is exactly where the tendon attaches to the calcaneus (assuming the tendon does attach to the calcaneus /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

I am seeind a podiatrist tommorow but I don't think I will be going back to physio since I'm poor and I cannot afford to pay someone $50 twice a week who's going to tell me to do streches. /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Vlad]

No problem bro! My pleasure!

I'll post a reply with simple rehabilitation program in several hours . If physio ordered you to do stretches then it can't be rupture. Don't get why he used ultra sound though, when he could have tested everything manually. X-ray would be the best option though.

If you want, I can also post how to test for rupture just to be sure.

[Yea Buddy]

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[Vlad]

Sure. But I really doubt you have it, you would be literally in pain if you had it.

Here is the test for PARTITIAL rupture, if you had a complete rupture you would be having hard times walking. Place your knee on a chair (90 degrees knee flexion ie 90 degrees between upper and lower leg) so that your foot is outside of the chair, just hanging, relaxed. Ask someone to squeeze your triceps surae (calf-muscle). If passive plantarflexion occurs, then you have partitial rupture. The name of the test is Thompons test if I recall it correctly.

Is your walk affected in any way? Can you walk on your toes?