Ruptured Achilles Tendon. Here’s What The Next 3 Months Look Like
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2024
- Welcome to our channel! In this comprehensive video, we dive into everything you need to know about Achilles tendon ruptures. Whether you're an athlete, a fitness enthusiast, or just curious about this common injury, we've got you covered.
🔍 What You'll Learn:
• What is the Achilles Tendon? Understand the role this critical tendon plays in movement.
• Signs and Symptoms: Learn to identify the key symptoms of an Achilles tendon rupture, including the classic "pop" sensation and swelling.
• Diagnosis: Discover how healthcare professionals diagnose this injury through physical examination and imaging tests.
• Treatment Options: Explore both surgical and non-surgical treatment methods, including rehabilitation strategies to get you back on your feet.
🎯 Whether you're dealing with a recent rupture or want to learn more to prevent future injuries, this video is your go-to guide. Don't forget to like, comment, and subscribe for more in-depth health and fitness content!
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Perfect timing for this video. I ruptured my achilles a 5 weeks ago and chose the non surgical route.I was afraid of complications of a wound in such a vulnerable spot. I had the boot put on at day 2 and started light weight bearing at week three.I'm an active cyclist and looking to get back into training as soon as possible so the info you presented gives me more confidence to in my rehab. I've been rowing indoor (one legged) since week four and at week five will start back on an indoor bike to keep all the other muscles in my legs firing. I've enjoyed your light hearted but informative approach for years and encourage you to keep it going. The inclusion of other specialist adds so much more to the video. I'm 70 years old and hope to remain healthy and active till the end and the information you provide is just another tool for people like me to use in our health span.Thanks
70 and still cycling is so impressive! Rooting for your recovery!
I am a great case study because I have done both. I ruptured my right Achilles in 2019 and had a non surgical procedure due to a higher tear. It took a long time to heal and be able to put weight on it. I just ruptured my left Achilles three weeks ago. I splinted it right away because I knew immediately when it happened what I had done. I had surgery using the pars speed bridge technique. I’m now weight bearing in an air cast three weeks post operation. Way less swelling and a noticeable improvement each day so recovery is moving along much quicker. I highly recommend surgery if you are a good candidate. It’s definitely worth the surgery risks imo.
Thanks for sharing your perspective. With non op nowadays you are weight bearing much earlier
I ruptured my left achilles while playing pickleball in February 0f 2019, and after watching your youtube back then about whether to have surgery or not, I took the non-surgical approach. My orthopedic doctor also agreed that at 77, he could not advise surgery. In 10 months I was back to playing pickleball and am still at it today!
Years ago in the Air Force, I was running in a field, and hit a set of hidden truck tracks in the heavy grass. I pulled BOTH Achilles tendons. I could not flex my heel, and had to robot walk for months. It healed, but the strange feeling can come back, and make me stop in my tracks. It only stressed once about 11 years back, but out of nowhere, if I balance wrong, my memory comes back, and I know it can cause serious limitations.
I work in healthcare, so much great information! Thank you all SO much for taking the time to produce these videos!! I try not to miss a single one!
I love your highly informative but casually serious presentation style.
I partially tore my Achilles’ tendon by taking Cipro. It was torn up and down not across. Went to a podiatrist and she didn’t treat it correctly. Never took mri until I asked after a year. Stopped going to her. I never had surgery just kept off of it during COVID. Finally healed.
Amen pray for me 🙏✝️
I’ve been prescribed Cipro 5x over 15 years. I didn’t know what was causing my declining health and tendon issues until my last prescription of Cipro left me unable to walk. Never take a fluroquinalone antibiotic. It took me 5 months of intensive PT to be able to walk again. I’ve avoided ruptured but I fear I will never be back to normal functioning. I spend most of the day with my heels on a heating pad and must massage and stretch each time I want to walk.
I've seen that theres an FDA black box warning on that for over 60 people. I believe it replaces the essential minerals with Flouride in the muscles. People take more magnesium to counter it?
I had bilateral Achilles strains in 2008, which were severe. I had taken Levoquin ABT, so it was a similar outcome to your situation. I received 12 weeks of PT, which helped, but I have chronic pain and significant scarring, especially on my left Achilles tendon. I ice it with ice packs, which are secured with an ace bandage. Most PT docs recommend ice over heat. It helps to reduce inflammation. I walk my dogs twice daily, approximately 2 miles per walk. DMSO cream helps, too, but I don't use it daily...twice per month. It is somewhat controversial (not FDA approved) but works for many folks. Stretching and strengthening exercises are beneficial.
@@ebackvon I also was prescribed levoquin when I developed infection during chemotherapy. It was the one antibiotic that truly worked well for me. Was on several strong antibiotics when I developed Frigging SEPSIS! And yes, levoquin was one of them. I'm SO glad I never suffered any side effects, especially ruptured Achilles tendons!#😨
Very informative video!👍
I guess not being very active has helped me to avoid this injury! Thank goodness I never played basketball or any other sports and that saved me from injury!☺️
Thanks for the great explanation!👍
Forty five years ago, I ruptured both tendons six years apart playing basketball. Both were surgically repaired. First one was operated on by a orthopedist for a professional sports team - no complications. Second one was repaired by a less experienced orthopedist who put me in a walking cast after surgery, The incision opened in the cast and took months to heal. Then, 10 years later I re-ruptured the first one by stepping off a ladder on to a 4x4. Tendon pulled off the heal and had to be reattached with a mechanical fixture. No more basketball for me.😀 In fact, I took up bike riding but I can still walk without difficulty though I don't try to jump.
Guys love this. Really helpful. And love all your stuff.
But, did I miss it? Not one thing on prevention? Pre-workout stretching, how much, does it matter, is there correlation? Strength exercises? Weight lifting?
On a slightly different note, I have tendinitis in both my ankles. Had a long time, off and on. Have received a number of conflicting medical /PT recommendations. All kinds of mild multi-angle stretching, hot, cold, strengthen, not strengthen…
After months of no progress, probably the best advice I got from anybody, was to do absolutely nothing,for three weeks. Especially no stretching. Rest. That did more than all the above.
Now… finally back to mild, stretching, and strengthening. But it’s never gotten back to normal.
My 80yo husband ruptured his achilles tendon on a machine at the gym. Was treated conservatively with a boot with a heal lift. Was told no weight bearing but was unable to comply. Still, healed well although 10 years later his calf in still visibly atrophied.
Wow, great information! and now actually looking forward to meeting all of you, as I recently ruptured mine and will be keen to get it repaired and functional! Found this channel while looking for information on what to expect. Cool coincidence.
Informative and friendly, thanks Talking With Docs. A cringe when I cliked the thumbnail however; super professional!
I have not torn my Achilles, but I do have Achilles tendinopothy. The back of my heel has been swollen for a year now. I have gone to two physios with no luck. Can you talk about how that happens and how to treat it? Thanks again for your content. It’s phenomenal.
Perfect and informative, I don’t want one but must stay active, any steps to prevent those that are physically active?
Just waiting to find out if surgery or not i have been watching a lot of videos
My fav UA-cam channel. Incredibly informative. I had both a partial rotator cuff tear and this past winter, a partial tear in my calf muscle. In both instances, the pain was pretty intense and debilitating, and in both cases I was pretty impatient with the healing process. I chose to have laser light therapy. I’m happy to report that both injuries are what I believe to be fully healed. My question: Is laser therapy “voodoo medicine”, or would my injuries have healed in the same amount of time regardless? The jury is out for me. I’d like to tout the benefits of laser therapy but I have no way of knowing.
This is off the subject but your recommendation about beat juice and flax seed several years past was wonderful
I have been following according to your instructions. No issues and still seeing my doctor.That florisimide is just a bad memory.Thanks again.
Interesting and important! Two questions; my gym trainer advises that frequent use of ibuprofen can be concerning for affecting/promoting brittle tendons during strenuous exercise? Secondly, would toe/heal stretching provide some preventative strengthening for the tendon (70 yrs young) or should caution be the rule of thumb? Thanks so much guys for your informative videos!
Thank you so much for this vid. I had a partial rupture abt 4 weeks ago and it was caused by an electric shock i got while changing a bulb. Have you come across such an event and any further advise.
What about prevention?
most painful injury I ever suffered......and did it twice this year alone
Very good explanation
My chiropractor gave me 8 to ten shock wave treatments to break up scar tissue on my Achilles tendon and since that my Achilles tendon is so very painful around the ankle and heal of my foot most of time that I can't put weight on that foot. Thinking I should get my family doctor to send me for exrays?
I was dealing with plantar fasciitis mostly by stretching but the Dr on Gait Happens channel claims that heel lifts to strengthen the foot is key so doing that has helped. I wonder if the soleus stretch might be more advantageous than the gastroc stretch even though both need to be done.
Thanks
Please do a segment on PRP therapy. I paid $1,000 for it and it did nothing to help. Insurance won't pay anything towards it. It's now been 14 months for tendonitis (it was not ruptured). What can one do?
What’s the best boot or brace for partial rupture on Amazon
An air cast or adjustable boot with a heel lift
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Well I don’t plan on doing surgery being out that long again with a family to support. Are their any other alternatives?
I ruptured my Achilles playing pickleball almost two years ago now. My surgeon did the weave and the absorbable points at the bottom to make it that much stronger because of all my activity. My calf still isn’t quite as strong as it was pre rupture but I only notice it when I try to run, the push off. My calf starts to cramp slightly. But I continue to work on it.
I think I’m in the same boat with the pre rupture, but mine swollen and sore 😢
Can you bring a neurosurgeon on to talk about encephalomalacia and gliosis? And a cardiologist to talk about Carotid arteries are tortuous?
So I ruptured my achilles 2 weeks ago and was in a non-weight bearing splint with planter flexion the next day. After week, my doctor had me in a non-weight bearing hard cast with planter flexion position. I've had very little pain these 2 weeks. I go back to see my doctor on October 28. What are the chances i can move to a weight bearing walking boot?
How's it going now?
It may be best to refrain from rigorous sports to avoid these injuries happening, because an injury never really heals back to the state it once was.
Every time these guys talk about something I'm like, "yea, that's what I have." Anyone else?
In 2010 I visited the doc after suffering an increased period of pain in the heel region of my left foot. Doc diagnosed arthritis, prescribed an anti-inflammatory and said it was "one of those things." It got progressively worse, heel was inflamed/swollen, in 2013 I insisted on seeing a consultant as I could no longer walk on it. MRI done, turns out I had partially ruptured the achilles and what set it off was calcification of the heel, pushing the achilles out at the heel anchor point which, over time, weakened it to the extent it was starting to tear. It was also discerned that at some point I'd had a break which had healed.
Surgery was required, no other option and I was awake throughout the surgery which was fascinating. The calcification was removed, a hole was drilled through the heel and a plastic anchor point inserted so that a new achilles could be attached. I was informed I'd need to wear the cast (up to my knee) for four months before it would be removed/reevaluated. I was given a 65% chance of permanent disability in that foot which I refused to accept. I removed the cast a week later, started gentle physio, a month later I was standing on the foot and taking very short walks with the aid of crutches. Being allergic to pain meds and not being able to take any, the pain was unbelievable. Two weeks later, I was forcing myself to walk up inclines every other day, I'd come home (physically sick from the pain), on returning home I'd stick my foot in an ice bucket for up to 30 mins, then keep it elevated, I'd rest it the remainder of the day and the next, then repeat the process.
A month later, I had to go to the hospital for a follow up check/chat, the surgeon was so angry at what I'd done, but I explained to him that I knew if I kept that cast on and didn't use that foot for four months or longer, I would have ended up disabled. My foot today, in 2024, feels bionic, it's stronger than it was originally. I still have the ugly scar which I have to take care of as it's very thick and prone to drying/cracking so I have to keep it emoliated at all times.
Mine ruptured 3 years ago, sounded like a shotgun going off, I’m not even kidding my ears rang after it popped
A little confusing to hear Canadian docs explaining the need for a boot for aboot 6-8 weeks!
Aaron Rodgers. Kirk Cousins. JK Dobbins. The list in the NFL is looooong…
I did my ACL in ‘97 so my dance card is full. 😂.
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Prevention?
Carnivore diet
Anyone else think; 20 year old Varsity football player?- who is responsible for a grown man beating on a sophomore - this is stupid
No child left behind, we even provide lunch now, grow big!
A little confusing to hear Canadian docs explaining the need for a boot for aboot 6-8 weeks!