Taping for Achilles Tendinitis

I've been to multiple doctors who still don't know if there's anything wrong with my tendon. Having this injury for 4+ years has been quite annoying, especially when I do activities such as dance, netball, soccer and gymnastics and sometimes just walking in general causes me pain. It has been unfortunate that I have had to give up some of these things because of my injury. I have been to a couple of PT sessions but they don't do much to help improve my tendon. If anyone has any advice that would be helpful. Thank you.

Fell down hill breaking ankle.

Rest,stretching and massaging w creams and oils. Doctor will not give me a cortisone shot out of fear it would be to painful. I really do need something done.

Have tried many things including the non FDA approved Shockwave Theapy which has not been effective after the four recommended treatments. I find the best thing for pain relief is REST which is nearly impossible as I work on my feet all day in healthcare. Dynamic stretching especially the kind that Yoga can give is also temporarily effective.

Nothing has worked, Currently trying pulsed EMF therapy. It does relieve pain temporarily, but has not helped on a more permanent basis.

Sore Achilles due to a bad experience with running shoes. Continued to run with the right shoes before it was healed and aggravated it. The only thing that has helped much has been just taking time off from running. Wrapping a heat pad around the shoe area also seems helpful, plus I have done some stretching exercises. Nothing was effective without stopping running however.

Left Achilles began to hurt while recuperating from right Achilles surgery. Area swollen and had to ice and rest at the beginning of PT. Slowly began exercises but after 7 weeks of PT still experiencing pain and weakness although pain has decreased in strength.

Achilles' tendon and heel pain. The best therapy is Tens machine and strengthening exercises+massage

Pt therapy helped decrease muscle knots, injection helped for a few days.

Three years ago as a HS sophomore, I had severe achilles tendinitis and crepitus (the creaking sensation that comes with bad tendinitis) when coming back from a stress fracture that had me on crutches and in a boot. I was able to kick it within about 8-10 days (while cutting running back to only easy runs on flat surfaces, length was typically not an issue as long as pain allowed). The things I did were:

1) Lots and lots of heel drops/calf raises. Hundreds every day.

2) Ice after every single run using a dixie cup with water frozen in it. These were really great in reducing inflammation as soon as I finished running.

3) Roll and stretch the calves, preferably right after the heel drops/raises.

4) Strengthen the ankles - practice standing on one foot. Do sets of 1 minute at a time, for each leg.

5) In order to continue to be able to train, the PT I worked with cut me a piece of cork, about 1/4 of an inch thick. It was shaped to allow it to fit under my heel under the insole of my shoe. These helped take stress off of the calf while still letting me run.

6) One other thing I believe helped me a lot was KT tape. The jury is still out on its effectiveness, but it did help me manage the pain and continue to run through the injury. The image at this link shows the tape pattern my PT used on me: http://rosaninstones.nl/...-tendinopathy-i2.png

7) Cross train with other activities if pain doesn't allow running - I spent a lot of time riding a trainer and pool running when I was able to get to the pool. Riding was great because it increased blood flow without much flexion of the ankle area.

I was racing well within 14 days of my achilles flaring up