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Basketball is a so popular game in the world but how can i learn of this game?

what ever happened to this? did it just go away?

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I’d back way off and hope it forgives you. BTW, I think there’s no way a weak calf muscle can lead to excessive force on an AT, because the calf muscle is what applies the force to (one end of) the AT. (Imagine that you were trying to pull a truck with a rope. If you were too weak to move the truck, would that put excessive force on the rope?)

But doing “explosive” high-tension things (like jumping, and accelerating fast, and switching between back-pedaling and running forward) before your AT is ready for them or used to them, can cause damage, DESPITE the fact that your calf is still weak. Normal tendons are way stronger than the muscles that pull on them, but yours isn’t normal yet. (It obviously wasn’t normal during your ATR, either, but that’s different.)

Even at 32 weeks in, it’s best to try to be somewhat incremental — but that’s hard to do when you’re having fun competing in a fave sport. Do you have any noticeable post-op adhesions, where the skin behind your lower leg gets “towed along” when you flex your ankle? If so, one of them may be getting upset when you play ball. Most PTs drool over the chance to break those

Anybody have any thoughts on this?

Thank you all for your opinion. =)

I just started to try these (not successfully) at 19 weeks, although I obviously overdid it and ended up inflaming my peroneal tendon, which has require a week of rest and an adjustment of my rehab schedule (less weight and more reps) for now. I would say if you have reached this point incrementally, you are probably alright.

When a really hard lifting session leaves me sore for 4 days or more - once I’ve fully recovered - I’ll almost always: do it again! I’ve had a workout wreck me twice, but never 3 times. Your body adjusts to the training load surprisingly fast. Getting that sore means I exposed and taxed some weakness. Usually I’ll try to identify what was unique about the session, and incorporate some part of it into my future routines.

Agreed. At 27 weeks (more than half a year), after a gentle and incremental build up period, I think most people (going through a nominal healing process) should be able to hit it pretty hard though.

My strategy:
First 12 weeks: super careful
12-16 weeks: this was my incremental transition, some easy light weights only. Did not try to induce any soreness.
4-6 months: Gradually increase the intensity. Hit calves every 3 days or so.
>6 months: hit it hard like a weightlifter. 4-5 day rest required.

Ryan, I wonder how soon after an ATR I’d be willing to aim at 3 days of post-exercise soreness. At 4 or 5 months in, I’d fear that there’s still very little diff betw the workout that causes 4 days of pain and one that causes a month of it. After maybe 6 months, I’m with you…

Delayed onset muscle soreness often peaks at around 48 hours. So, sore 2-days after is usually OK (expected). Sore 3 days after is pushing it (but not too unusual). Sore 4 days after means you’re really hammered something. I certainly wouldn’t be avoiding workouts that have me sore for 2 or 3 days. But, it’s important to recognize and differentiate “soreness” from another injury. Muscle soreness is OK - joint pain, not so much.

Norm is exactly right about incremental: always ease into things. Even for a perfectly healthy individual starting out with a strength building program, my advice would be to ease into things over a period of a few weeks to give your body a chance to adjust (and to learn what you’re capable and not capable of doing).

Two answers:
(1) Check out bit.ly/UWOProtocol . If the rest of your rehab has been close to that schedule, you should be able to follow their exercise schedule, too. (IIRC, they were talking about plyometrics long before 27 weeks post-whatever, and that’s WAY more scary-aggressive than eccentric heel drops.)
(2) In general, especially once you’re past the re-rupture-scare window (soon after ~12 weeks in), you can push yourself and your leg, preferably “listening to your body” AND always being incremental — i.e., avoid doing aggressive exercises that are totally different from what you’ve already “successfully survived”. If it seems like time to do something that’s qualitatively “new”, just do a few of them, and wait ’til the next day to try more than a few. If you’ve been doing (say) 10 2-leg heel raises, don’t jump to 20 with a big sack of potatoes in your arms. Incrementalism will usually keep you safe from injury, even when “listening to your body” won’t.

So, following the second “rule”, if you’ve already been doing some of these moves, and you haven’t been suffering from it — even the next day — then you haven’t been ov

My blog, on an early page, tells the story of my one-MONTH setback in the recovery from my first (pre-blog) ATR. My keyword for everybody is INCREMENTALISM! Don’t stop progressing, and listening to your body. But that’s not enough to avoid serious setbacks. In addition, get very nervous whenever you do anything unlike what you’ve done (& survived) at least a couple of days ago.

Many overuse problems take hours or more to show up, and you feel fine while doing the damage. I was proud that I could multiple 1-leg heel raises on the first day I could walk barefoot “perfectly”, without the dip-limp at the end of my stride. But I was as dumb as a post to do it, and I paid the price of a month of pain (at the back of my heel, insertion point) back in my boot. I wasn’t nervous enough.

I am now at week 21 recovery post op. and also hit pain low in my heel (medial achilles insertion) around the 17 week mark. I had a very good physio who stated scar tissue could be the cause, I had another dose of shockwave therapy on the area and all been good. Keep your chin up, balance discs place a lot of pressure on the insertion of the achilles. Since the therapy I am back up to speed on 4 mile runs nromal gait 3 times a week at 10min/mile pace and coming down quickly. Hope you are sorted ASAP.

Hi, I am 13 weeks post-op and not quite up to the elliptical machine but about 10 days ago, in the autumn sunshine, I decided to go for a walk round one of the local villages - one steep descent walking downhill then coming back equally steep uphill. Had boot & 1 crutch for support, felt OK, continued walking on level ground for 30 min or so. The next day I had excruciating pain in the calves on both sides of the leg - it kind of reassured me that the good leg hurt as well, and that this was a symptom of having done too much after not really doing anything up or downhill. For a whole week I had to be back to crutches even in the house, as the slightest pressure on the tendon was bad. Then back to one crutch, then none. It’s only yesterday - nearly 10 days after that stupid walk - that i felt back to where I was! It is quite dispiriting but as my consultant said “be patient, this is one injury you cannot hurry along”. So lesson learned, no long uphill walks for a while, just baby steps if I need to go uphill at all (as this places less stress on the tendon), and I am working on building strength with ankle resistance movements,

I’m not at your stage yet in this but have had other surgeries. It’s always “two steps forward, one step back” at the beginning and they say to expect a year to get back to pre-surgery status. What does your PT say?

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