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  • Anonymous Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age < 18
    • Female
    • 5' 3"
    • Sydney, Australia
    12
    Jul2016
    • Injury Status In Pain
    • Physical activity per week 4-8 hours
    • Chronicity 18+ Months
    • Repeat injury? Yes
    • Runner Yes
    • If Runner? change in mileage or terrain Yes

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      Physical Therapy, Rest, Taping, Heel Lifts, Stretching, Strengthening Exercises
      Not Improved
      Ice, Massage
      Worsened
      Compression

    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.

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  • Anonymous Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 55+
    • Female
    • 175 lbs
    • 5' 8"
    • Crystal Lake, IL
    26
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status Recovering
    • Physical activity per week 0-4 hours
    • Chronicity 6-18 Months
    • Repeat injury? No
    • Runner No
    • If Runner? change in mileage or terrain No

    Treatment Ratings

      Not Improved
      Physical Therapy, Ice, Cortisone Injection, Massage, Rest, Taping, Stretching

    Fell down hill breaking ankle.

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  • Anonymous Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 35-54
    • Female
    • Cortez,colo
    26
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status In Pain
    • Physical activity per week 8+ hours
    • Chronicity 18+ Months
    • Repeat injury? No
    • Runner No
    • If Runner? change in mileage or terrain No

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      Boot, NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs, Supportive Shoes, Rest
      Not Improved
      Strengthening Exercises, Stretching, Heel Lifts, Taping, Brace, Massage, Shockwave, Ice, Orthotics, Compression Socks

    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.

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  • Anonymous Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 35-54
    • Female
    24
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status In Pain
    • Physical activity per week 4-8 hours
    • Chronicity 18+ Months
    • Repeat injury? Yes
    • Runner No

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs, Ice, Massage, Taping, Heel Lifts, Stretching
      Not Improved
      Orthotics, Shockwave, Supportive Shoes

    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.

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  • Anonymous Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 55+
    • Female
    • 200 lbs
    • 5' 6"
    • Austin, TX
    24
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status In Pain
    • Physical activity per week 4-8 hours
    • Chronicity 18+ Months
    • Repeat injury? No
    • If Runner? change in mileage or terrain No

    Treatment Ratings

      Not Improved
      NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs, Ice, Massage, Rest, Taping, Eccentric Protocol, Heel Lifts, Stretching

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

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  • Anonymous Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 35-54
    • Male
    • 135 lbs
    • 5' 7"
    • Mustang, OK
    17
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status Recovering
    • Physical activity per week 4-8 hours
    • Chronicity 0 - 6 Months
    • Repeat injury? No
    • Runner Yes
    • If Runner? change in mileage or terrain Yes

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      Massage, Rest, Supportive Shoes, Stretching, Strengthening Exercises
      Not Improved
      NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs, Ice, Taping, Compression Socks

    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.

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  • janea Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 55+
    • Female
    • 185 lbs
    • 5' 5"
    • Blacksburg VA
    17
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status In Pain
    • Physical activity per week 0-4 hours
    • Chronicity 6-18 Months
    • Runner No

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs, Physical Therapy, Ice, Massage, Rest, Taping, Stretching, Strengthening Exercises

    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.

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  • Zumba Luis Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 55+
    • Male
    • 220 lbs
    • 5' 9"
    • Philadelphia Pennsylvania
    15
    Apr2016
    • Physical activity per week 4-8 hours
    • Chronicity 18+ Months
    • Repeat injury? Yes
    • Doctor/Care Giver Excel

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      Orthotics, Ice, Massage, Heel Lifts, Strengthening Exercises
      Not Improved
      Taping

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

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  • Deborah Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age 55+
    • Female
    • 233 lbs
    • 5' 5"
    • Richmond Ky
    14
    Apr2016
    • Injury Status In Pain
    • Physical activity per week 0-4 hours
    • Chronicity 18+ Months
    • Repeat injury? No
    • Runner No
    • Doctor/Care Giver Anne Douglas

    Treatment Ratings

      Improved
      Boot, Stretching, Supportive Shoes, Taping, Rest, Massage, Cortisone Injection, Ice, Physical Therapy, NSAIDs - Anti Inflammatory drugs, Strengthening Exercises

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

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  • abrown Achilles Tendinitis

    • Age n/a
    10
    Feb2016
    • Injury Status Cured
    • Chronicity 0 - 6 Months
    • Runner Yes

    Treatment Ratings

      Cured
      Ice, Massage, Eccentric Protocol, Heel Lifts, Stretching, Strengthening Exercises
      Almost Cured
      Boot
      Improved
      Taping

    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. Thes