Achilles tendonitis

[Karin]

2 years I suffered with this.Had electric pulse,massage,acupuncture to no avail.Some ideas heelraiser inside the inner sole of shoe,I used to get a heel lock strapping prior to games -this immobilised the tendon from over stretching through game.ICE for ever after the games.Also a great therapist put me onto a set of reps for your achilles and calves that to this day (3 years later)I do every day and touch wood I have had no repeat problems.They came from the Australian Institiute of Sport.Exercises are -get on a step that you can drop your heel from but with support for both hands e.g a doorway or stairs-let the non painful foot hang loose and use the sore foot to let your weight hang by staying on the step with the ball of your foot and your heel dropped behind.Count 10 then place non affected foot on step to take weight of your return to both feet beside each other.At first you think it is a crock but even after acouple of days I noticed an improvement.I started doing 10-15 reps each day but now it is easy to do several more and has become automatic when going upstairs at home.May not work for all-but other refs I have shown to have had success also.Good Luck