anniel’s AchillesBlog

Can’t believe that its now been 3 months! (And didn’t post last week as didn’t feel like there was much to report!)
Am mostly in 2 shoes - and only put the boot on for tennis lessons, some gym exercises and some evenings out at pubs where I am not sure how busy its going to be…
Have been using the pool at the gym a couple of times a week, walking up and down the lengths for about an hour and doing 10 - 15 heel raises at each end, just on the bad leg at the deeper end! Today I also used the steps to do double heel raises so that my heel dipped below neutral. Leg was hurting a bit towards the end and felt shaky when I got out but feel like I am improving: the single legged heel raises were easier, and my stride was better, with a definite roll through and push-off on the bad leg.
Had my first NHS physio appointment at the end of last week where he checked strength / flexibility and said was much better than last week, plus gave me a few more exercises to do. Not a lot really happened in it other than that, and I am not getting to do many exercises with the physio (again its all different depending on where you are / who you see!) but he did explain that the tightness I feel is because the collagen is still all mixed up and needs to be smoothed out by the weight bearing strengthening exercises etc, so that it will move more smoothly (although he obviously explained it better than that!)… so that is good to know.
So I am in the 2-footed plateau period, feeling like there is progress but its small steps rather than the great advances of moving from NWB to PWB and FWB… but still, progress is progress

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