Achilles Tendonitis / Tendinopathy - Explained in 90 Seconds

A succinct look at Achilles Tendonitis / Tendinopathy, explaining the symptoms, common causes and treatment, including exercises, taping and massage.
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Achilles Tendonitis is now more accurately known as achilles tendinopathy. This is because it is not thought to be an inflammatory condition and is more likely to be due to the degeneration of the tendon.
Symptoms include a gradual onset of pain, stiffness and aching of the tendon and a thickened often reddened appearance.
The tendon is usually tender to touch and may contain lumps known as nodules. Initially any pain on exercise may fade as you continue and the tendon warms up.
Without treatment pain will become constant and in order to successfully treat achilles tendonitis you must determine what has caused it and the correct problem.
Common causes include a sudden increase in activity, a change of footwear or training surface, weak or tight calf muscles, wearing high heels, running up hill and over pronation.
Treatments include rest from any aggravating activities, ice or cold therapy treatment, ultrasound and the temporary use of a heel raise. Stretching exercises and eccentric strengthening such as heel drop exercises should be incorporated into a rehabilitation program.

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[Mswebstar123]

I was running in gym and I felt a pain on the back of my ankle. It also hurts when I walk... is this what it is? plz answer bck

[sportsinjuryclinic]

It's impossible to tell from a description of an injury. It needs a full assessment in person to determine what the problem is. Make an appointment to see a sports injury professional in your area.

[IceRice3000]

I have had this for a long time. Im using the right footwear and feeling better since I been doing rehab training for the last month. I heard that even if the pain goes away, it still can come back if I dont keep doing the excercises. My plan is to go to asia in three months for kung fu training and som thaiboxing. How much can this effect me, and can I still do hard training if I mix it with the rehab excercises?

[sportsinjuryclinic]

Yes you need to keep up the rehab exercises even once it is pain-free as this will help stop it returning. You also need to be aware that it is something you may always be a little prone to.

[nils119]

Are steroidal therapies feasible?

I'm 23 and seem to be prone to tendinopathy at various parts of my body despite a healthy, sportive lifestyle and regular physical therapy. It is allmost impossible to rest all affected parts, while maintaining a regular sports/gymnastic regimen. My imflammatory blood results are normal.

[sportsinjuryclinic]

You can have a steriod injection into the achilles tendon. But these should only be tried after appropriate conservative treatment fails.

[Dan Young]

i have this shit and i can't play for my soccer team

[pgb2323]

A good overview; in particular the use of eccentric loading is an important part of rehabilitating the Achilles, I can also recommend the book “My Achilles Heel: How to overcome Achilles Tendinopathy” available from Lulu.com

[John watson]

i dont understand ...they say dont do stressfull exercises,but you need to do tendon exercises and stretches....WELL I did alot of strecthes and at first it loosen up my foot where It had more movement,but after I woke up after doing streches the pain was significantly worse then before! so yea I dont understand?

[AuntyM66]

This is what i have been diagnosed with.