Aly was my physio. When we started, I couldn't run a half mile without 7/10 pain. Seven months later, I ran a 39 mile ultra without pain. (Well, no pain in my achillies!). Ran my first 50 miler two months after that. Get on her schedule now, because as one can see from this brilliant video, she is going to Hollywood soon. 😊

So to combat these flareups is to slowly build your tollerance to reinforce ypur Achilles?

I injured my achilles doing calf raises back around March this year. I stopped working out until the pain was gone, then started doing heal drops pretty regularly, adding small amounts of weight over a month or so. Then, without any pain or warning, I had an intense flare-up sitting there one evening that lasted a couple days and all but prevented me from walking. I recovered from that for the most part and have tried getting back into body weight calf raises (still doing other weighted leg exercises), but felt like I came close to another flare-up last night, again, just sitting there. It's like there's not really any warning, and the debilitating nature of the flare-ups makes me hesitant to do any calf exercises at all.

When I'm in England, I always wear my "flip flops" and "trainers" 😄

Thank you😊🙏❤️🇨🇦

Hi, do you have any videos on how best to deal with an initial achilles flare up? Started running fairly recently in addition to strength training, tennis and hiit workouts. My achilles flared up on Thursday after a 5km on the back of a high load week. Pain wasn't too bad and could only really notice it when stretching out my achilles. Played tennis this morning and the pains got a little worse and can now feel it when I hop and when I walk up and down stairs. Wondering if you could point me in the right direction of content/advice on how to deal with this to prevent worsening the situation? I also have flat feet which I dont believe helps.

Hey 👋 I had a heel slip where my foot went out in front of me and I felt a sharp pain in my Achilles. I have pain in the insertional part or my tendon. What should I do to heal it?

How do you know if you're ready to run? I've done a couple "test" runs 2:1 ratio and feel 0 pain, but notice the "squeaky" tendon following.. or crepitus.. with 0 pain or crepitus the following day..