anniel’s AchillesBlog

Having read a few posts recently about overdoing it, I think I may have joined that club! Its now over 14 weeks since injury and I finally started driving again! (Probably delayed longer than I needed, but as it was my right ankle and as I didn’t really need to be driving I decided not to rush into it…) Passing the driving milestone is great My friends have been wonderful getting me places but having the ability to come and go as I want is wonderful, and so I have been driving into the gym every day, getting a bit carried away with the re-found freedom!
I’ve been alternating between the pool (walking up and down doing heel raises at each end (single legged at the deeper end), and starting to do heel drops/raises on the steps) and the gym (30 mins with a slight incline on the treadmill at a fairly slow pace so that can concentrate on not limping, 15 mins on the hand bike and 10 mins on the stationary bike - which was a bit scary at first without the boot as my ankle felt kind of wobbly). And my heel raises in the pool are getting better, but I think I am also trying harder to push off when walking the lengths and find that I start getting cramp in my calf muscle sooner - which I suppose proves that I am doing something!
Went to the cinema tonight and my tendon felt kind of tight - and cold - so I think tomorrow will be a day off from any leg exercises.
Oh and there is probably about a 1 inch difference in circumference between my good and bad calf. Unfortunately I didn’t measure it when I first came out of the boot, so I can’t compare with that, but the bad leg does feel a little more solid - whilst obviously still being all wobbly in comparison with the good…
So I think progress is being made, slowly, just wish the tendon didn’t feel as tight as it does as that is getting boring…

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