What is Achilles tendonitis?
The Achilles tendon is well known to every person. It attached the very powerful calf muscles to the heel bone. Since the calf muscles tend to be so powerful, the Achilles tendon is put under a lot of load. Because of this load, no wonder Achilles tendonitis is actually a common problem throughout sports people. No matter what the sport is, they all use the Achilles tendon! Achilles tendonitis treatment will involve the use of heel raises in order to decrease the load within the tissues; modified sports activity to allow it to get better; physical therapy and mobilisations to stimulate healing; and calf muscle strengthening. In the event that all this fails, then there is surgery.
