Top 10 achilles tendon ruptures caught on tape.(Video)
Jul 22nd, 2011 by crutchman
Warning:Not for the faint-hearted specially if you are in the early stages of ATR.
I have gathered the top 10 achilles tendon rupture (ATR) caught on tape. When it
happens it does not look very dramatic, but the consequences are very sever and may take up to 1 year to return to normal activities. When the injury occurs, It feels like you have been kicked or hit in the back of the leg. That’s why most who are inflicted with the injury will look behind them as you will see in the videos, a distinct ATR pop can also be heard.
10-Tennis player suffers an ATR with a simple move forward.
9-Sprinter rupture his achilles tendon second before the finish line.
8-Achillies tendon rupture during a soccer match. Very similar to my incident
7-During a soccer match an ATR strikes a man. He looks behind him to check if anyone had hit him.
6-ATR during a martial arts session. Falls instantly.
5-ATR during gymnastics. While somersaulting you can hear a very loud pop. This one hurts to look at.
4-In front if an audience this brave gay man ruptures his AT half way through a show and continues anyway. You can see the pain on his face.
3-Misty May ruptured achilles caught on tape during rehearsals for DWTS. Reaction from fellow contestants.
2-A high jumper suffers an ATR while encouraging people to route for him. Painful and embarrassing at the same time.
1-David Beckham ATR during ac Milan soccer game.
I wish mine was as gentle as Beckham’s and the other soccer players’ injuries. Mine was pretty violent and there was no way I could have stayed on my feet.
The guy doing flips outside almost sounded like it popped twice. Once on the way up and once when he hit the ground.
My was like the guy that was doing the race track, the only difference is that I was sprinting with a soccer ball on my right foot (I injured the left achilles).
Hey luis
sorry to hear that. Did you get any secondary injuries from the fall? My ATR looked exactly like the the soccer player on video number 8, except i was playing basketball. Not dramatic but painful.
My favourite is the high jumper. What ever possessed him to wear a suit like that. Now that is embarrassing. Unfortunately I had to wear something similar while snorkelling in the Western Australian tropical waters to protect me from deadly stingers. Fortunately there was only the two of us on a secluded beach.
Omg watching these videos as sumone who ruptured a tendon is almost traumatizing. Mine was like the 1st tenis players vid but i was playing handball instead. I thot sum1 kicked me reaallly hard in the back of the leg and turned aroind holding my ankle n asked who the hell kicked me? n Every1 was just staring at me like o_O “no1 kicked u gunsel”. Bad memoriess
Of course, I had to watch the German man “dancing” one first. Poor guy — to go out to the theme from Flash Dance. I guess you can’t always “dance all through your life”.
I would add that it looks like the poor German fellow may have dancing at his child’s school talent show? I give him huge credit for finishing his performance!
That’s going to give me nightmares!
Sorry smkymtns & gunsel for bring up bad memories but i notices the further along you are with the recovery the easier it is to watch the videos. To this day i can’t watch the gymnast in Video number 5 just to traumatizing for me . Also it helps people who just suffered an ATR to diagnose it quickly by watching the incident happen similar to theirs. I would also like to spread the word about ATR because i feel if i knew about ATR before my injury I would have prevented it.
oh, man! these are difficult to watch. But, I keep thinking to myself- if these athletes, with all the constant support they receive from personal trainers and physical therapist and staff, can rupture their AT… anyone can!
I just watched it and getting more confused: what did they do wrong? How can we make sure it won’t happen again? It seems too normal for such abnormal injury happen? If I don’t want to give up being active, do I just leave it to fate?
Or is it possible that we were born with weaker AT?
Whatever possessed you to Google for these? Compelling viewing but I felt faint & queasy afterwards - not an injury I ever want to experience again.
mark5stewart
I found them by accident on you tube looking for ATR rehab videos. Then one video led to another. With my Youtube account I always bookmark things i find interesting. next thing i know i have 16 ATR videos. Believe me there are ATR videos that are much more shocking I only placed moderate ones. The intention of this video is to raise awareness. I never knew what ATR was and i feel if I had known i would have listened to early alarm signals my body was giving me such as soreness and pain on the AT area. The thing is when someone who has not suffered an ATR watches the video they dismiss it as a simple injury. I will however place a warning.
Bunny (if I can call you that) - I know you are a dancer and the stress you put on your body is probably greater that most. The number of other injuries and afflictions you have suffered through your time dancing should also be large. There is some research into blood type O and ATR plus there are some discussions about certain drugs. Are we predisposed to this injury from birth, probably not? It may be a while before you En Pointe. You will have to take yourself back to a young girl watching the older dancers and remember how it felt and then be patient. Will the other one go if you keep up your active life? Maybe but you should talk to your PT about what you can do to strengthen things. Why has this happened? For you, medically I can’t be sure but it is most likely because of some pathology within the tendon, a weakness from overuse or a previous injury not treated. I won’t be exhaustive on this subject. Should it stop you from being active once healed? All that is up to you. Would you have traded you life up to now? Philosophically, the reason for this injury may take some time to present itself. I have been through a similar life changing experience before. One born through injury at least. Months of waiting to see if my left hand would ever move again. My career (which I loved) was over, my marriage ended soon after. I was diagnosed as suicidal but I doubt I really was. Looking back on it I can see how dark those days seemed. It was my active life that got me through and I don’t intend to let this one get the better of me. I have so much to look forward to and so do you. Adversity breeds strength and change dispels complacency. This injury will change and strengthen you. Give it some time, take a deep breath and settle down to the task at hand.
I hear you, Dancingbunny! It all seems so bloody random as if a miffy Zeus hurled a thunderbolt our way because he was jealous of our pirouettes or our badminton serve or our rugby prowess or our biking and running stats. The Gods always seem so tetchy and petty in all those Greek and Roman myths! Hey — I’m beginning to see Daphne as she runs from Apollo and Zeus turns her into a tree as an early metaphor for ATR!
The idea of re-rupture or — the ultimate downer, I feel — a rupture of the other tendon is haunting! It’s hard to know when to be conservative and lay back and when to push through a bit! I’m leaning towards taking a conservative route whenever possible, thinking that it can’t be bad to go slow and not rush. I am really looking forward to my first PT appointment next week and getting some advice about it all.
It sounds like you’re doing great! Imagine a year from now — you’ll be at barre and this will be far from your mind as you extend into a nice develope devant!
Stuart — you are amazing. Thank you for all you do here. Your comments to me and others have been such a huge source of information, rationality and inspiration in my recovery process.
I will add that everybody on this site with their insightful and honest commentary has made this whole awful event so much easier to bear. Thank you all so very very much!
Thanks Daisy, the journey of life has taught me a great deal and I am still learning. Your words are also very encouraging to me and others I sure. May not have much time in the next couple of weeks to comment. Travelling north tomorrow for a couple of weeks in warmer weather and a birthday party. Its a 60th birthday so a couple of weeks of partying is in order. Also I meant to tell you how much I enjoyed our recent chats where nothing about this injury was mentioned. It can be a little consuming.
Have a wonderful, wonderful time Stuart! It sounds like a grand trip. And I have also enjoyed our non-ATR chats very much! A great break from thinking about tendons.
dancing bunny
I would not for one second think what the people in the video are doing is normal. At first sight it might look normal. But most of them are weekend warriors who have not played sports for a while then suddenly placed an enormous pressure on their bodies in a short period of time. 6% re-rupture rate after an ATR proves that the odds are on your side. David Beckham was playing non stop all year for AC Milan and LA galaxy and practicing for the world cup all in the same year when most athletes were playing for one club and getting a lot of rest.Misty May situation is perplexing however. She is 2 times gold medal winner in the volleyball Olympics and sudden suffers an ATR from a simple dance move, but then again you never know her history. Either way the odds are still with you. be strong and good luck with your recovery.
I have to say, I hope for me its not that I am susceptible.
I did mine after forcing my body to play a high impact on the ankles sport for 20 minutes past it being completely tired.
When I went to A&E initially though they commented I was the third person that day with a rupture and the first guy in had done his dropping his kid off at the playground and joining in with a game of “tig”!
Hi Stuart,
Thank you so much for your inspiring message! It was so touching and powerful, I think you should put it in print! I’m wondering if ATR the only injury that has such a wonderful blog with patriots from all over the world!
I just visited my physical therapist today for the first time. It went well. He was very surprised about my Achilles Tendon can grow back by itself without surgery though, he even called my orthopedic just to make sure. I was very pleased that he was so careful and cautious before any move.
However after I told him that I could walk without crutches for a couple days, he watched me walk and told me to get back on crutches.:-( Because I’ve been walking with my heel only (the injured one), not as same as the right one. He directed me to put on more weight on the front of my injured foot, and that’ll be my homework now.
Have fun with your vacation! will miss you on the blog though.:-)
Bunny
Hi Daisy,
I always enjoy reading your message! You’re not only a dancer but also a great writer!
We’re on the same schedule, I just visited my PT today for the first time. I asked him why it happened to me, and he told me it was because of bad luck, so there’s pretty much nothing I can do about it. Of course, the only thing that guarantee that won’t happen again is sitting on the couch from now on.
I’m going back to learn walking correctly with my crutches. Feel like back to square one.:-(
Take care of yourself!
Thank you very much, Crutchman! I’m with you. The problem is either my body didn’t send me any message beforehand, or I didin’t hear it. Because other than normal exhaustion from dancing, which I feel every time, there’s nothing different. Of course, at least now I know where my AT is, and started to pay extra attention to both now. I’ll try to learn how to listen to my body, and I’ll try to be more conservative too, like Daisy.
Have a complete and quick recovery!
Ouch ouch ouch. Have read through all of the comments and have to say the only consolation you can draw from any of it is, if it can happen to Beckham, it can happen to any of us. We weren’t doing anything wrong (even the high jumper in the suit, although that is ‘wrong’ on a whole range of different levels), we probably weren’t even doing anything we haven’t done a hundred or a thousand times before. It just happens, and from that point on, you have to take an attitude of getting on with it and getting it sorted out rather than wondering ‘why?’ or worse still ‘why me?’.
Not going to claim not to have been pretty down about it all at the outset, but now I am looking back and thinking ‘did I really make all that fuss about a bit of time in a cast? It’s not like I’m never going to walk again’. So now I set goals and I have targets. And I have promised myself a damn good pedicure once I get rid of this goddamn boot.
danair:
I feel the same way, I did mine playing soccer, and I am already setting some goal to have a great comeback. I am aware It can happen again, but It might as well happen while dancing some salsa! so I rather enjoy my body to the fullest!
Good luck with your crutches training, Dancingbunny!
I’m really looking forward to my first PT session and getting his or her’s feedback on my particular progress. Sounds like you have an excellent one who will help you get along very nicely!
This time next year, you’ll be thinking about your upcoming Nutcracker rehearsals in September and worrying about your Arabian divertissment instead of your Achilles tendon! Won’t that be grand?
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