The achilles tendon is the largest and strongest tendon in the body. It is at risk of injury such as achilles tendinitis, achilles tendinosis or an achilles tendon rupture. Here I'll cover the basics so you understand each injury.
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00:00 Intro
00:17 The Warrior Achilles
00:32 Anatomy
01:00 Tendinitis
01:15 Tendinosis
01:42 Rupture
02:12 Clinical Exam
03:28 Treatment
Here I will cover the three different achilles problems and go over treatments. I will not go into the specific details of how the operation is performed as there are a number of techniques and I will leave that up to your individual surgeon.
You can find exercises and more information from the AAOS here: orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/disease...
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