When people come to see me with their injuries and health problems, it is usually because they have exhausted every other option. Achilles tendon injuries are near the top of the list of reasons for paying me a visit. These injuries tend to be very poor healers. The reason given most times is that this tendon has no direct blood supply to expedite healing. There may be another reason why Achilles tendons fail to heal: The injury may not actually be to the Achilles tendon; but to one or more muscles immediately adjacent to it. Of course, recovery will be poor if the wrong part is being treated.
If the first diagnosis is of, say “Achilles Tendonitis”, the tendency for all who may subsequently become involved in your treatment is to blindly continue down the Achilles pathway, even when the results are disappointing. One reason why this may happen is the medical hierarchy and ACC claims setup makes it difficult for a therapist to
