Along with Physical Therapy for Achilles Tendinitis, a home exercise program will be given to perform on days therapy is not scheduled and after discharged from the clinics care. The HEP will have pictures and descriptions of each exercise to perform in order to increase range of motion, increase strength, and decrease pain.
Physical therapy treatments can be an effective intervention for healing Achilles tendinitis by reducing and eliminating inflammation and pain:
Treatment for Achilles tendon tear in the clinic is divided into three phases.
Acute phase exercises: Focusing on improving ankle range of motion and decreasing pain.
What is the Achilles tendon?
The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body, it’s a thick fibrous tissue that runs down the back of your calf. It consists of two muscles, your gastrocnemius and soleus, and serves as the way to attach these muscles to the back of your heel.
Ginger Harper is a patient in our Spring Hill clinic. The week before Christmas, she was in the attic and fell through the ceiling. She thought she just bruised her ankle so she didn’t go the doctor for a little while. But after enough time and pain, the doctor required an MRI, only to discover that Ginger had a torn Achilles tendon and a large bone spur on her ankle.
One of the funniest and heart-warming scenes of the 1989 comedy film, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, is when Clark Griswold breaks through the attic floor. Thankfully, he does not fall all the way through, but lands both feet on the top bunk of Rusty’s bunk beds. Trapped there for hours until his family returns home,