Pain in the Achilles tendon or heel is usually the result of ... to a problem in the Achilles due to lack of proper care and treatment. With sports season in full swing, it’s very easy to ...

Use this modified eccentric exercise to strengthen the front of your Achilles and defeat this hard-to-treat injury.

A short treatment guide follows. Typically the patient has pain in the Achilles mid-portion, complaining of most pain being located on the medial side of the Achilles tendon. The symptoms are often ...

Unfortunately, some therapies used to treat Achilles tendon injuries can be problematic. Medications and injections prescribed for pain and swelling can cause adverse effects and don’t address the ...

The patient described the pain as achy ... systemic disorders.2 Treatment algorithms suggest that after conservative treatment has been exhausted surgical intervention may consist of resection of the ...

A tear in the Achilles tendon, which connects the calf muscles to the heel bone, often resulting from sudden stress or injury. Nonoperative treatment: Management of an injury without surgical ...

Treatment for Achilles tendonitis starts with taking a break from the activity that led to the injury. It’s usually OK to do non-weight bearing exercises such as swimming, biking, and stretching ...

An Achilles tendon injury is an injury that happens to the largest tendon in the human body: the fibrous tissue that connects the two large muscles in the back of your calf with your heel bone. These ...

real-time assessment of treatment efficacy for Achilles tendon injuries. More information: Huibin Yang et al, Mueller matrix polarimetry for quantitative evaluation of the Achilles tendon injury ...

Objectives When re-operating patients with midportion Achilles tendinosis, having had a poor effect of ultrasound (US) and Doppler-guided scraping, the author found the involvement of the plantaris ...