This is tendinitis. The Achilles tendon is a thick band of tissue attaching the heel to the calf muscle. This tendon helps a person walk, run, and jump and endures a great deal of stress.

They will ensure your Achilles tendon is strong enough to handle it ... However, when you reach that point, don't jump back into your old routine just yet. Ask your physical therapist about ...

Yulimar Rojas ruptured an Achilles tendon last April. That prevented her defending her Tokyo triple-jump gold at the Paris ...

The sural nerve travels along the lateral aspect (outer aspect) of the Achilles tendon, goes behind the lateral malleolus of the ankle and along the lateral foot giving it plenty of area to mimic ...

Simon Svedman from the Karolinska Institutet research group Orthopedics at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, ...

gmail.com Background Although differences in mechanical properties between symptomatic and healthy tendons have been observed for the Achilles tendon ... to assess the mechanical properties of the ...

Objective: To prospectively investigate tendon thickness and tendon structure by ultrasonography in patients treated with eccentric calf muscle training for painful chronic Achilles tendinosis located ...