bdelputte’s AchillesBlog

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Wow! It’s wonderful to read about your progress. Glad that each swim has brought more strength, reduction of swelling, and joy. I also appreciate hearing about the caution you exercised getting into the water! I am one week post-surgery and preparing soon to start “moving about the cabin” more — nwb for 4 weeks is the current plan, so the issue of how to take care but not be shut down by fear is lively!
So glad

Your PT person sounds pretty clueless to me. You are probably limping because your taking too big a stride. Take smaller steps - as small as you need to walk normally without a limp. The achilles can’t stretch as much right now so you have to take smaller steps. As it heals and your PT improves it’s flexibility you can take longer strides. Agnes talked about it in her blog. And, as you walk/move more the swelling will decrease since the natural pumping action that happens when you walk helps pump all the fluids around so they don’t pool in your foot/ankle. You should definitely be able to do rowing with one foot - again flexibility is what will limit your ability to use the ATR foot. You have to flex the strapped in foot quite a bit when you row and it takes a while for your injured achilles to get that flexibility back.

I think they’re called ‘islander sandals’ - see link below

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00D984VCS/ref=pe_3187911_185740111_TE_item

Wondering which vionics you purchased?

Been there myself some 6-7 weeks ago - I am now on week 16.
I started going to the gym and swimming pool at week 9 or 10. It’s very individual, by just see how it goes for you. I actually never had a single PT session and have been doing stretching exercises - with resistance bands - every morning since then.
Just don’t take it too hard and take one step at a time. It will heal one day =)

I started with 4 wedges and took the first one out after 4 weeks. At 5 weeks I took out the second one and that coincided with the full weigh bearing
I am now down to 1 wedge (removed last night) and I can feel that there is more pressure on the heel - which is a bit sensitive.
I bought one of those ‘even ups’ as it really helps to have your hips not out of control.

how many wedges do you have in at 5 weeks? i’m in the aircast and still have it at 20 degrees and have the rocker sole on. i can walk without crutches but it isn’t smooth as the heel on the boot is so awkward. i’m 4w4d post surgery.

I started rowing with just one foot on at the gym at 4 weeks after surgery. My doc insisted on 3 weeks of elevation at least 90% of the time and after that I took another week to get used to moving around a lot more and then started hitting the gym to do one footed or seated exercises. While you’re in the boot it is impossible to have that foot on the rower since you can’t bend as much as you typically do on a rowing machine. Even after I was allowed to start PWB (and was allowed to remove the boot for exercises) my achilles did not have the flexibility I needed for quite a while on the rower so I was doing one footed rowing for many months. The key thing in the early stages is DON’T stress things as they heal. You can check out my blog (http://achillesblog.com/cserpent) in the early months where I describe the exercises I did at the gym and put links to a couple of YouTube videos for 1-footed exercises. Also http://achillesblog.com/agnesatr/ shows a lot of exercises she did in the various stages of recovery.

i’m so anxious to get “recovered” and i’m only 3w1d post surgery. i see my ortho today and get stitches out and talk about the next coming weeks. i need a reminder daily that this is a slow recovery with no short cuts.

Thanks cserpent!
I am probably not confident enough yet to try to fully weigh through….
I have ordered the even up and am eagerly awaiting its arrival in the mail. One thing I have learned from reading everyone’s stories on this site is that you can’t rush this recovery - and just be happy with my daily improvements.
For now - I’ll just continue to try to walk around the house with one crutch.

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If you can’t yet put full weight on your foot then keep using crutches. Also - since your wearing a boot make sure you have an even up on the good foot (or wear shoes to make both feet at the same height). Otherwise you can’t help but walk weird. One thing I read on this site that is definitely true is you have to take tiny steps, at first, in order to walk normally. Yes it is abnormal to do this but your achilles does not have the strength or flexibility yet for you to take long strides. If you can only take teeny-tiny strides with a normal gait then you should probably keep using the crutches. Once you can take somewhat more normal strides. So use the crutches to help you with a normal stride and practice walking normal with small steps without the crutches at home.