Do you keep feeling a sharp pain in your Achilles tendon when you set out to run? Forget changing trainers or investing in expensive massages – try these three hip openers instead. Resting ...

Achilles tendinitis is the accumulation of degenerative changes in the tendon, especially in chronic cases, caused by disorganized repair of areas ... Too much exercise is a major cause.

The NHS undertakes more than 8,000 Achilles tendon repair operations a year. Here, Elizabeth Brooker, 32, a theatre nurse who lives with her husband near Penryn, Cornwall, tells us about her ...

This paper reclaims the term “mechanotherapy” and presents the current scientific knowledge underpinning how load may be used therapeutically to stimulate tissue repair and remodelling ... with every ...

He said he had minimally invasive Achilles tendon repair for a ruptured tendon that the doctor said went smoothly. Such surgeries involve smaller incisions, and the recovery time is quicker. But most ...

Five-time Masters champion Tiger Woods announced Tuesday he had undergone successful surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles tendon in his left leg following an injury sustained during training for ...

Objective: To investigate the acute effects of isolated eccentric and concentric calf muscle exercise on Achilles tendon sagittal thickness. Design: Within-subject, counterbalanced, mixed design.

Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that he recently underwent another surgery, this time to repair a torn Achilles tendon discovered during a home workout. Woods was also in the operating room last ...