Correspondence to Mr Michael R Carmont, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Princess Royal Hospital ... treatment compared with operative repair. Following Achilles tendon rupture treated with ...

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year ... but before carrying out any surgery, he wanted me to have a few months of physiotherapy first to see if that ...

In the largest study of 775 patients, the overall complication rate of surgically treated Achilles tendon ruptures was ... Currently, percutaneous repair is favored over open operative repair ...

5 However, the sequential MRI signal alterations over time in tendon injury and repair need further evaluation. One suggested rationale of the surgical treatment of chronic Achilles tendinosis is that ...

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