Hello fellow rupturees!
I am just now starting a blog, my rupture was almost 17 weeks ago. During the first few weeks (those soul destroying, NWB, totally frustrating first few weeks!), I visited this site many times. It proved to be such a great resource for information and more importantly, for my [...]
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Catherine- I’m a little ways ahead of you, at 13wks. I’ve been out of the boot for 8 weeks now. I don’t have numbness in my heel, but do still have pain (in the bottom of my heel). I think it’s partly because, due to my weak calf, I still carry more weight on my heel, and less on my toes. I think it just comes with the territory. It IS (very) slowly getting better.
Thanks everyone. Great advice! I am still having heel pain and numbness, and my doc has prescribed 3 more weeks in the boot, and no PT. She thinks it might be scar tissue pushing on a nerve ‘or something’. Frustrating because I really don’t know what’s going on with it.
+1 to that Norm.
Little and often and progressing the exercises further each week will go a long way (in my opinion that is)
Yup. I overdid 1-leg heel raises and suffered a month-long setback 17 weeks(!) post-op after my first ATR, under STRICT instructions from my PT, and over my initial objections!!
On another ATR website, they polled their members who had re-ruptured for the details, and compiled the results. I think the leading contender (or at least one of big ones) was “PT”. The PTs didn’t get 100% in school and they don’t get 100% at work, either, just like most of the rest of us. (Even doctors!) I think most of them are way too gung-ho about dorsiflexing early on. . .
One of my fave principles is incrementalism. Whatever it is, if it’s vaguely challenging to the AT, don’t do a ton more of it than you did yesterday. If you’re fine tomorrow, try 20% more of it, and “rinse and repeat”.
Thanks for bringing us up to speed Catherine. Glad to hear you’re on the mend. With this injury, there is a very fine line (as you’ve found)- and it’s difficult to gauge when you’re crossing it. I call it the difference between hurting and being hurt 
Thankfully, it doesn’t sound like you’ve damaged the tendon itself.
Next time the doc tells you to do something you aren’t comfortable with, remember this story:
achillesblog.com/jacobp/2008/07/16/reruptured-by-the-doc/
I’m a big believer in taking control of your own recovery and rehab plan; but that means you’ve got to be responsible for it too-
My apologies! I just updated to the present!
I’m with Ryan — WAY too impatient for these historical serials!! Please get to the “punch line” (the present) soon!
Thanks for the story… but you can’t leave us hanging there- why are you back in a boot??
