Too slow / too fast…

Am in week 5 now and trying to transition from PWB to FWB …and wondering what sort of exercises people were doing around this point…  (I did put this as a question on another blog but thought I’d add it to my own…)
My physio is maybe a little conservative, with just massage so far (which [...]

PWB to FWB soon…I hope!

So next Monday will be 4 weeks since ATR and I am supposed to be able to start full weight bearing, but I can’t quite see how that is going to happen…  I am partial weight bearing at the moment - probably about 50% although its hard to tell - and have tentatively tried a [...]

3 weeks gone - is that all!

3 full weeks now since ATR but it feels like its been forever, and that I’ll never get back on both feet, let alone back on a tennis court
Very very tentatively tried a very little ROM and its so pathetic, could barely point down/pull up even a few millimeters.  And I really wasn’t [...]

First physio

Also had my first physio session on Thursday (2 weeks 4days after ATR (which was 24th Feb)) .  Bit scary at the start as he made me stand so could compare ankles and that was the first time my bad foot has been at 90 degrees since it happened.  But it survived…  Having seen how [...]

Two and a half weeks since ATR…

So its two and a half weeks since I ruptured my right achilles’ tendon  Did it playing tennis, in my first league match!  Have only been playing tennis since March 2013 and was starting to get the hang of it, so this is a bit of a blow.
Was at the hospital and in an equinus [...]