An Update, Long overdue
Hi everyone:
It has been quite a while since I updated my blog. I guess mostly because things have gone so well, I haven’t had a lot to post. I had a full rupture, May 10th, surgery May 13th, and I was back in shoes by July 1st. Things have progressed extremely well. I have been going to the gym and playing golf a couple of times a week (average) since July. I started walking 18 holes in August.
For part of July and early August, I had a slight limp from heel aggravation, but that too has gone away, and everything feels very normal again. I can do two legged heel raises, but I plan to start doing heel raises on the surgically repaired leg in a week.
Although I don’t expect to play competitive this year, I hope to be playing tennis again (sort of like getting back on the horse), this week. Nothing too stressful, but I can push things a little more now.
I am very pleased with my recovery, and I am very glad that I went the surgery route. I might write more about my thought process behind survery vs non-surgery in another post.
September 20th, 2011 at 3:46 am
Hi,
After 14 weeks I have a sore limp still and I feel the pain in my heel. Can you please elaborate on ‘heel aggravation’- how did it feel, do you know what caused it and most importantly what made it go away?
Cheers,
mtbrider
September 20th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Strangely I’ve also just started getting heel pain when walking barefoot (fine in comfy trainers) and this only happened after starting to do more exercises (heel raises etc). Only things I can think are that its from where the achilles is attached and its doing more, or its the better you start to walk, the more you strike your heel. Nice to know others have had it though as its quite annoying not being able to walk round barefoot at home like I normally do.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:32 am
Interesting. I only had heel pain from the back of my shoe rubbing on the heel. It seemed more like just skin irritation, and not really a deeper issue. Walking barefoot was actually the best, since there was no rubbing from shoes. For you, maybe it is just the extra fatigue on the tendon from exercises.
September 20th, 2011 at 10:52 am
Mtbrider: It was just irritation on the skin at the back of the heel. For me, it improved with some massage to the area, with a Vitamin D oil. It took a few weeks and patience, but the pain went away. I think mostly it was just patience..
November 7th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
hey I seriously enjoyed your post. seems to be like i will be back. preserve up the fantastic function
March 27th, 2021 at 9:28 am
Chuck what was the severity of your tear? I have an mri and I am in a hard cast but am hoping to golf in 9 weeks