| Achilles tendonitis can happen to anyone, young or | | | | Achilles tendonitis causes pain when you're walking, |
| old. If you've been hobbling around in extreme pain | | | | especially in the heel. Your heel and calf may be red |
| and your doctor tells you that you have this injury, | | | | and swollen. The initial treatment is simply rest, with |
| you're wondering just what this means. Will you be | | | | pain medication like aspirin, because if you continue |
| incapacitated for weeks or months? How do you | | | | with the activities which caused the tendonitis, you |
| prevent this injury from recurring? | | | | may rupture the tendon. If the inflammation is very |
| Achilles Tendonitis - What It Is | | | | severe, you may need a cast to immobilize your heel |
| The Achilles tendon is largest tendon in your body: it | | | | until the inflammation subsides. |
| joins your calf muscles to the bone. It needs to be | | | | Once the inflammation is gone, you can begin physical |
| large, because when you're walking and running, it | | | | therapy, which includes stretching exercises, as well |
| needs to be able to take the weight of your entire | | | | as exercises to build up your calf muscles so that less |
| body. | | | | pressure is placed on the tendon. Gentle yoga |
| Achilles tendonitis is damage to your Achilles tendon, | | | | exercises are excellent both to stretch the tendon, |
| causing irritation and inflammation to the tendon. The | | | | and to build up muscle. |
| damage which causes Achilles tendonitis may occur | | | | It's vital that you start physical therapy, because |
| from overuse in sports activities or training, and it | | | | once you've had Achilles tendonitis, the injury is likely |
| may also be caused by arthritis, when arthritic spurs | | | | to recur, in an even worse form, like a tear in the |
| form where the tendon attaches to the heel bone. | | | | tendon. Your therapist will give you some exercises |
| Rest Is The Best Cure - Recovery Can Take A | | | | to do at home - they don't take much time, just a |
| Couple Of Weeks | | | | few minutes a day. |