Flanker’s AchillesBlog

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A lady I work with went from 7 weeks in a cast (NWB) to getting it taken off and getting nothing. But……….she started PT a week after the cast came off so for your doc to tell tell you just to ’stretch your foot’ for 6 weeks sounds crazy!! Can you partial weight bear or full weight bear? Are you still supposed to use crutches or not? Sounds very dangerous to me as you could easily trip/slip and re-rupture here.

Flanker had surgery Dec. 17th, so he did mean weeks, not months, Surfer. Hope he’s OK, and hope he comes back now that the site is back up, and gives us a report!

I’ve been addicted to this site long enough to see TWO extended outages, and things are unusually snoozy for a while afterwards.

upon first read, I was going whoa, four months in a cast?!?! I think you meant 4 weeks in a cast as your earlier post mentioned December surgery. What position/angle was your foot last in the cast? Neutral? That’s just odd that you would go from a cast to NOTHING. You should be careful here. At 4 weeks, you’re pretty vulnerable to re-rupture.

I think it all depends on when the doc is able to get your foot back to “neutral” (or at least at 10 degrees flexed). If your doc hasn’t been recasting your foot at closer and closer to neutral, then you shouldn’t need a cast at four months post-op? Unless your foot is still not able to get close to neutral and/or your surgery involved something way beyond “typical”, maybe you should try to see another ortho for a second opinion?

Good luck, this injury is definitely not one of the fun ones…

I have been through AT tear on each of my legs now, fifteen months apart. Both times i got int he pool the day after the stitches came out. First time around I had a waterproof cast on, second time around no cast after first two weeks. I found the swimmng to be the best thing, no stress and enables use and flexing as much as ‘it’ allows. I really felt much looser on days I swam. Also it is really the 8 week post ol point where you can push off, though second time around I started a little sooner. I did find with flip turns that you really push off with thigh and whole leg so there is not a ton of stress on the tendon, Though the issue comes if you are too close to wall and the foot gets too flexed. However you get used to pushing off with one leg as well. The pool also allows for some early balance work once you are a PWB. I say, jump in now!

It’s a pity~~I can’t swimming!!

I don’t see any reason why you can’t do leg lifts, pressups and prone holds with the casted foot on top of the other which is on the floor, other core exercises. I was doing them after the first week (non-surgical though).

You’ll prob find leg lifts too easy, so try holding them for 10sec each time. I gave them up as too easy (without the holding 10s i mean), then when my PT got me back on to them a few weeks later i’d lost so much muscle they were hard!! Also no reason why you can’t do some upper body stuff. My doc suggested the ‘grinder’ if I had access to one (like on yacht racing) - but I did’t unfort.

good luck…

Oh…and by the way, just saw how recent your surgery was. You’ll prob. want to check w/your doc. as to how your incision looks regarding when you can submerge it in water. I got my stitches out at 9 days post op., and although the wound was healing very nicely, my doc. said showers were okay, but didn’t want my wound submerged in water yet. At 3 weeks he said no problems. I’d check w/your doc.

Howdy…I will be at 4 weeks post op on Monday, and plan to get into the pool in my VACOcast on Monday after my PT session. Doc said my incision is healing really well and that at week 3 I could go in, but hadn’t gotten around to it w/the holidays and such. I think it’s going to be a great way to get the “whole” body moving again and start building some general stamina. As NoTN said above, just be sure to keep your repair protected. Have fun!

If you can, install the “ATR Timeline” widget, instructions near the top of the main page. Very helpful to us readers.

As long as your injured AT is protected from stress and shocks and such — either because you’re swimming in a boot or cast, or because you’re in way over your head and you’ve got some great system for entering and exiting the water — I think it should be great, starting remarkably soon. I never got around to it myself, but the folks who have, have all raved about its positive effects physically and psychologically.

If you Google something like “ankle orthotic boot”, you’ll find a bunch of them. The VacoCast (North America) aka VacoPed (UK & Europe) is the fave boot of the AB.com crowd these days, for a number of reasons. It’s hyper-adjustable, hinge-able, waterproof, and very space-age high-tech. Most people find them very comfortable. They’re all much more conformable and user-adjustable to eliminate sore spots, scar irritation, pressure points, etc. And they can be removed and put back on safely and easily, e.g., for exercise and PT and bathing.

If you don’t like the way your boot feels, make it feel better, either by readjusting the straps or by adding a footbed or some padding, etc., etc. If you don’t like the way your cast feels, wait until you’re next at the hospital, and try to complain loudly enough to somebody that they’ll slice off the old one and throw it away and replace it with a new one that you may like better — and whose fundamental adjustments aren’t different in weird and wonderful ways, because each cast is a one-off marvel, usually constructed using the “TLAR” principle. (TLAR = That Looks About Right.)

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Hey, that’s encouraging! If I could get back to swimming that’d be great! And that can be done once I get out of my splint and into a cast? I’m not familiar with a solid boot, what’s that?

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Certainly when you get in a solid boot (try to avoid being casted — it’s old-fashioned and not as effective), it’s pretty easy to do most rest-of-body exercises without much risk to the Achilles. Some ATR patients have managed to get into a swimming pool remarkably early on, either with a waterproof boot (with a “wringable” liner, or better TWO of them), or a waterproof “cast protector”.

“Lifting your torso off the bed” type exercises can usually be done safely starting virtually immediately. Some of Doug53’s blogs outline some of the rest-of-body exercises he worked out for himself — in addition to the very aggressive post-op AT-and-calf exercises.

Good luck, and good healing!

I’ve actually lost weight but that’s probably muscle mass I’m sure.

How long have you been casted?

I’m in a splint right now, should get a cast on the 30th and was hoping at that point I might be able to do something, upper body weight lifting if nothing else.

I know what you are going through. We are pretty close in our recovery stages as my surgery was Dec 5th. I was running 40 miles a week and now I am doing nothing and am concerned about gaining weight. I am too worried about doing anything yet until this cast comes off and the Dr says it s OK. This is too serious an injry to have any setbacks. Take it slow - our perserverance will get us back into shape.

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