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 ...
Achilles tendinitis is described as "an overuse injury of the Achilles tendon, the band of tissue that connects calf muscles at the back of the lower leg to your heel bone," according to the ...
The first is caused by excess pressure on the plantar fascia, a band of tissue that attaches the heel bone to the toes, and the second is caused by overuse of the Achillestendon, which ...
Watson's Achilles rupture was the latest in a string of similar injuries to NFL quarterbacks in recent seasons.
The "speed bridge" procedure involves anchoring the Achilles tendon to the heel bone with stitches and bone anchors.